Cover art by Geof Darrow
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-ups
- 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
Credits
- 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