Hawken: Melee

Tales of mech battle glory from the world of the award-winning free-to-play game!

Exploding from the video game screen comes an all-new anthology set in the dystopian world of HAWKEN, the award-winning, free-to-play, online game from Meteor Entertainment! This follow-up to HAWKEN: GENESIS puts readers directly in the mech-battle action, collecting six vignettes from the front lines of the battle for Illal. With stories and art from some of the most innovative creators in the comic industry, including Dan Abnett (Legion of Super-Heroes), Federico Dallocchio (Batman: Arkham Unhinged), Jim Mahfood (Grrls), and Nathan Fox (DMZ), get ready to get thrown into the melee!

Jim Mahfood is an American comic book creator born in St Louis, Missouri. Apart from his creator-owned comic book series Grrl Scouts and his comic strip Stupid Comics (which appears weekly in the Phoenix New Times) he also did work for Marvel Comics on various Spider-Man titles, including Ultimate Marvel Team-Up and Spectacular Spider-Man. His big break came when Oni Press hired him to illustrate two comic books based on Kevin Smith's movie Clerks from scripts by Smith, following his work on Marvel Comics Generation X Underground Special. Dan Abnett is a British comic book writer and novelist. He is a frequent collaborator with fellow writer Andy Lanning, and is known for his work on books for both Marvel Comics, and their UK imprint, Marvel UK, since the 1990s, and also 2000 AD. He has also contributed to DC Comics titles, and his Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000 novels and graphic novels for Games Workshop's Black Library now run to several dozen titles and have sold over 1,150,000 copies as of May 2008. In 2009 he released his first original fiction novels through Angry Robot books. Federico Dallochio is an Argentinian artist whose work has appeared in DC Comics (Suicide Squad, Green Arrow, Batman, JLA, Insurgent), Wildstorm (Starcraft, Call of Duty), Marvel (Siege: Captain America) and Dark Horse (Star Wars: Knight Errant). Although he was born in Washington D.C., Nathan Fox grew up mostly in Houston. He graduated the Kansas City Art Institute in 1997. After failing to get a satisfactory job, he and his wife moved to N.Y.C., where he continued his education. Shortly thereafter, his work began appearing in such popular publications as The New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Interview, The New Yorker, and Rolling Stone. He now lives in Kansas City with his wife and two daughters.