The Matrix: Comic Book Preview

The Matrix: Comic Book Preview was a sixteen page booklet printed in March 1999 and meant to be given away at the release of The Matrix but was recalled instead when the content was deemed too controversial.^[1]

It included the Series 1 introduction, the comic "Déjà Vu", pin-ups by Bill Sienkiewicz, Ted McKeever and Aron Weisenfeld as well as adverts for the comics, the film and The Matrix: Music from the Motion Picture.

Pin-upsEdit

• A blond woman in a white overall holding two guns sitting on a giant telephone handset, by Bill Sienkiewicz
• Tiera sitting in her room: the first page of "A Life Less Empty" by Ted McKeever without captions
• A redpill falling out of a building towards street level: a partly colored version of Aron Weisenfeld's "Run, Saga, Run" pin-up

CreditsEdit

• Editor: Spencer Lamm
• Design: Redpill Prodictions
• Graphics: Lukasz Lysakowski
• Cover Art: Geof Darrow
• Inside Cover Art: Michael Kaluta
• Facing Page [page 1] Art: Steve Skroce
• Cover Color: Atomic Paintbrush
• Deja Vu: Written and Illustrated by Paul Chadwick
• From concepts by Larry and Andy Wachowski
• Website by Reset
• Printed in Canada (Quebecor Montreal)
• First Printing: March 1999

See alsoEdit

• The Matrix Comics
• Déjà Vu
• The Matrix Comics Volume 1
• The Matrix Comics Volume 2

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ SINGAPORE COMICS & COLLECTIBLES: THE MATRIX PROMO COMIC (1999, WB) RARE RECALLED