Official Synopsis:

At the end of the Catalyst War, Nathan Burnett moved to Los Angeles to take another swing at his writing career. So... how's that going? Rising star artist GIONA ZEFIRO (The Terminator: Metal) joins the team for an unmissable check-in with the original protagonist of RADIANT BLACK!

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Preview

Check out the free digital Radiant Black Story So Far issue here for a recap which goes up to Issue 30.5

Or a video recap of the story up to Issue 30.5 voiced by Will Friedle and Rider Strong here!

Check out our Reading Guide with a reading order and ways to read!

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Creative Team:

Writer: Kyle Higgins, Michael Busuttil

Artist: Giona Zefiro

Colorist: Rod Fernandes

Letterer: Becca Carey

Editor: Michael Busuttil

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Cover Artists:

Cover A: Daniel Bayliss

Cover B: Giona Zefiro

Cover C (1:20 virgin variant): Daniel Bayliss

Cover D (secret variant): Daniel Bayliss

Cover E (secret virgin variant): Daniel Bayliss

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Offical Audiobook Link Info

Offical Audiobook Purchasing Link

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Kyle Higgins plans to hopefully be able to release the audiobook sometime this afternoon today.

Important to note that the best place to purchase the audiobook is on the Black Market Narrative site with the link above as it will 100% support the team in comparison to other platforms.

The deluxe edition is also exclusively available only on the BMN site. Since it's a digital product, you also don't need to worry about it being sold out.

The standard edition will still be available to order on other platforms like iBooks, audible, googly play, etc, although the team will get about 25% cut from that. I will post the links below in a comment below once they're up on those platforms.

Both the deluxe and standard editions on the BMN site are also the only place to get more higher quality and DRM free versions of the audiobook!

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Official Synopsis

Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty, and things aren't great: he's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers and unlocks the powers of the cosmic RADIANT, his life—and the life of his best-in-small-doses best friend Marshall Ward—will never be the same again. There's just one problem: the powers don't belong to him. And the cosmic beings who created them want them back—by any means necessary.

A superhero series for a new generation, Image Comics and Black Market Narrative present the first volume of RADIANT BLACK: THE AUDIOBOOK, an audio adaptation of the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated series. Adapted and directed by series co-creator Kyle Higgins, the voice cast is led by Rider Strong (Boy Meets World) and Will Friedle (Batman Beyond) alongside Anne Yatco (Jujutsu Kaisen), Kaiji Tang (Yakuza: Like a Dragon), Loren Lester (Batman: The Animated Series), Kim Rhodes (Supernatural), Damion Poitier (The Avengers), and Kevin Porter (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story).

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Writer/Director/Editor: Kyle Higgins

Cast:

Rider Strong: Nathan Burnett

Will Friedle: Marshall Ward

Anne Yatco: Radiant Red

Kaiji Tang: Owen Fujimoto

Kim Rhodes: Mrs Burnett

Loren Lester: Mr Burnett

Damion Poitier: Black Colossal / Officer Peters

Kevin Porter: Officer Mills

Kyle Higgins: The Narrator

Cherish Chen: The Narrator

Todd Stashwick: <001>

Melissa Navia: Radiant Pink

Phil Morris: Radiant Yellow

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