![]() No comic book character is 100 percent original. “I once saw a guy on Instagram with a tiger tattoo, and he did a Photoshop effect where he pulled the tiger off. ![]() “Blasted is based on Acat of Mayan mythology,” Sands says. He can manipulate the ink from his tattoos to turn the images on his body into weapons. Blasted’s main superpower is called melanokinesis. “True comic book fans eat that stuff up, and if Sacramento residents see something familiar in the books, then that’s even better.”īlasted is his newest superhero and was born and raised in Stockton. “I love dropping Easter eggs into my work,” Sands says. Brooke is the first name of Sands’ sister, and Bolton is an homage to Ruthie Bolton, the Sacramento Monarchs’ most famous player. Superhero strong, she can fly and control cosmic energy. Lady Monarch is the alter ego of Brooke Bolton, a social media influencer who discovers she is the reincarnated Egyptian goddess Ma’at. The book’s logo is scripted in the font used by the defunct Sacramento Monarchs WNBA team, although the main character has nothing to do with basketball, Sands says. The “Lady Monarch” series also takes place in Sacramento the cover of the debut book features the titular superheroine sitting on Tower Bridge. Everyone else is either an anti-hero or true villain.” Lady Monarch is true blue and Blasted is more on the true-blue end. I don’t have too many ‘true blue’ heroes. He’s got a lot of rage, and if you’re in his way, you’re probably going to die. Impound is more like (Marvel’s violent vigilante) Punisher, more of an anti-hero, especially in the more recent books. ![]() “He’s pretty much a melting pot of my favorite things. “Impound was pulled from Spawn (Image Comics) and ‘Mortal Kombat’ (video game and movie), and ‘Pulp Fiction’ was a big inspiration on this story, too,” Sands says. Sands has branched out with five additional comic book series, featuring characters with names such as Lady Monarch, Blasted and Decymus. The rest of the story line features Impound developing his powers to avenge what Jones and others have done to him. That incurs the wrath of a Sacramento crime lord named Christ Jones, who exacts his revenge by attacking Impound’s family. Without spoiling too much of the origin story in Impound #1, Endsley is offered money to take a dive in an MMA fight but instead beats the local champion. His first comic book series, Impound, is based in Sacramento and centers around Anthony “Impound” Endsley, a tow-truck driver by day, an amateur mixed martial arts fighter by night trying to make it to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. “I need more people to see it, so I took the leap.” “If this whole thing is going to become what I want it to be, then I had to make the move,” Sands says. In April, Sands took another leap to expand the brand, hiring more employees to run the DOCO store so he could move to Hollywood and be closer to publishers, television and animation studios, and merchandising experts. “They were like, ‘We’re willing to take a risk on your company because we think you have something that could eventually become a Sacramento touristy thing.’ It makes sense in DOCO, and for the Sacramento Kings, to have a Sacramento superhero. When I started, I didn’t have that many books, but believed in the vision,” Sands says. “That agreement is helping me grow the brand. Brent Trayce Sands’ first comic book series is based in Sacramento and centers around Anthony “Impound” Endsley, a tow-truck driver by day, an amateur mixed martial arts fighter by night. That’s allowed him to focus on expanding his comics universe rather than just growing the bottom line. Sands, 34, says he has a business agreement with DOCO operator CBRE, which takes a percentage of sales in lieu of a traditional leasing agreement. Impound Comics sells only the series created by Sands, while his Arden Fair store is more of a traditional comic book store that sells books from the major publishers such as Marvel, DC and Image, plus toys, game cards and other merchandise. The business is growing as fast as the superpowers of his characters-so much so that Sands opened Anti-Hero in Arden Fair mall this past July. That number has now reached five, with a sixth coming in May. Yamasuki had just purchased the comic book from Brent Trayce Sands, who came up with the character and opened Impound Comics store in 2021 to feature his growing series of comic books.
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