The creators and executives at AWA Studios discussed the titles that will comprise the company's soon-to-be-launched mature readers imprint Upshot.

"The Resistance is our magnum opus," AWA Chief Creative Officer Axel Alonso said. "It is the opening story that tells the creation of our shared universe. There's an extinction-level event that will result in widespread death around the globe but also in the creation of a new species of superhumans. Are they our harbinger of more pearls to come or are they Earth's last hope?"

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"If you took The Punisher, John Constantine the Hellblazer, who are two of my favorite characters and smoosh them together, they would be Archangel 8," Alonso continued. "It's a fallen angel who does God's dirty work in a special ops way," writer Michael Moreci added. "He meets the demons where they're at on Earth and he acts as God's coverage."

Alonso then went on to discuss Jason Starr, Will Conrad and Ivan Nunes' Red Border, which he said is "about a couple from Juarez that flee over the border, out of the frying pan and into the fire."

"Hotell is a really creepy story about a hotel that only shows up for people who need to face their sins," associate editor Jaime Coyne said of the final Upshot title arriving in March.

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The Resistance #1, by J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato Jr. and Frank Martin, Archangel 8 #1, by Michael Moreci, C.P. Smith and Snakebite Cortez, Red Border #1, by Jason Starr, Will Conrad and Ivan Nunes and Hotell #1, by John Lees, Dalibor Talajić and Lee Loughridge, all go on sale in March from AWA Studios.