Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross #1

This graphic novel is a Kindle Serial published in three issues for one price. The first issue is available here.

Cimarronin: Fall of the Cross continues the adventures of Kitazume, an exiled samurai adrift in New Spain, and his mysterious companion, the disgraced Jesuit priest Luis Pérez de Guzmán.

The two men have known each other for more than twenty years, and their histories have a way of catching up with them. As they become embroiled in the deadly politics of New Spain, Kitazume uses his lethal skills to save his friends—and to find redemption. Meanwhile, Luis secretly works as a member of the legendary Shield-Brethren, whose mission is to see that neither China nor Spain controls the silver mines owned by his father.

As the silver caravans in Mexico are raided by gangs of escaped African slaves known as cimarrónes, Kitazume and Luis race to stop the cimarrónes’ leader, El Gato, from plunging the entire region into a tragic period of bloody conflict…

Issue 1: March 25, 2015. 24 pages. Luis Pérez de Guzmán has a problem. His family’s silver mine in New Spain has been attacked by escaped African slaves known as the cimarrónes. And his oldest ally, the exiled samurai Kitazume, is in a coma.

Issue 2: May 13, 2015. 24 pages. African warrior El Gato takes the captive son of New Spain’s viceroy to Mexico City, where he aims to gain leverage in negotiations. Luis and Kitazume race to stop El Gato before he walks into a trap…

Issue 3: July 1, 2015. 24 pages. Will El Gato make it back to Africa? Will the viceroy stop the rebellion? Will Kitazume slay his demons? Find out in the epic conclusion to the Cimarronin saga—a classic showdown of steel and mettle!

Neal Stephenson is primarily a fiction author and has received several awards for his works in speculative fiction. His most popular books include Snow Crash, The Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle, and Anathem. He is a co-founding author of the Foreworld universe and co-author of The Mongoliad trilogy. He resides in Seattle with his family.

Mark Teppo is the author of the Codex of Souls urban fantasy series, the hypertext dream narrative The Potemkin Mosaic, and the vampire eco-thriller Earth Thirst. He is a co-founding author of the Foreworld universe and co-author of The Mongoliad trilogy, along with many other tales in the universe. A bibliophile whose interests include historical martial arts and esoteric traditions, he lives in the Pacific Northwest.

Charles C. Mann is the author of 1493, a New York Times bestseller, and 1491, which received the Keck Award from the National Academy of Science. The co-author of five additional books, including a young readers’ version of 1491 called Before Columbus, Charles is a regular contributor to The Atlantic, Science, and Wired. He has covered science, technology, and commerce for publications such as National Geographic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the Washington Post. Charles has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award four times, and has won writing awards from the American Bar Association, the American Institute of Physics, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Margaret Sanger Foundation.

Ellis Amdur is a well-known practitioner and researcher of classical Japanese martial arts. He has written three books on the subject, including Dueling with O-sensei, Old School, and Hidden in Plain Sight. Ellis also works as a crisis intervention specialist and has authored and published nine books on the de-escalation of aggressive, emotionally disturbed individuals. His first novel, The Girl with the Face of the Moon was published in December 2014.

Dean Kotz has drawn comics for a variety of publishers, including Boom! Studios, Zenescope, Monkeybrain, and Image. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.