Rob Hanes Adventures Returns to San Diego Comic-Con

Look for WCG Comics and the Long Running Indie Series in the Small Press Area

For Immediate Release

Following a two-year pandemic hiatus, San Diego Comic-Con returns in a big way July 21–24 and WCG Comics publisher and writer-artist Randy Reynaldo will exhibit to help celebrate! The Comic-Con Inkpot Award recipient will be at Booth K-1 in the Small Press, debuting issue 23 of his long-running indie action-adventure comic-book series, Rob Hanes Adventures, along with his full catalog of back issues and trade paperback collections.

Rob Hanes Adventures has been a presence at the show since the introduction of the Small Press area in 1994 and remains one of the longest running indie series. Begun as a zine in 1991, the series re-launched in 2000 as a full-size comic book. In addition to the 23 issues to date, four trade paperback collections have been released. In 2018, Reynaldo was a featured guest at Comic-Con and honored with an Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts.

During the two-year hiatus, Reynaldo has released new issues and participated in the interim Comic-Con’s@Home shows and Comic-Con “Special Edition” held over last year’s Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Other recent and upcoming coverage of the series includes a comprehensive two-hour interview that looks back at the series and Reynaldo’s career on the “Blockhead: Cartoonists Talk Comics” podcast by Geoff Grogan; and an upcoming appearance by Reynaldo as the featured guest at an online meeting of the Comic Arts Workshop. hosted by Ramon Gil, scheduled for July 28.

In the latest issue, Rob is hired by a beautiful heiress and her husband to provide security on a cargo ship and encounters a band of modern day pirates on the high seas who are led by a notorious international crime lord and alluring female privateer. Preview art from the issue is available here and below.

About the Series

Rob Hanes Adventures is an action-adventure series about a globetrotting private eye and troubleshooter from Justice International who travels the world on assignment, facing adventure, intrigue and romance at every turn. Over the years, in addition to traditional high adventure, the series has embracedLook for WCG Comics and the Long Running Indie Series in the Small Press Area other genres like sports and romance stories, often with humor. Every story is self-contained, making it easy for readers to jump in with any issue.

Inspired by classic adventure comic strips like Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates and Roy Crane's Buz Sawyer but set in the modern day—with dashes of light-hearted humor reminiscent of Will Eisner's Spirit—readers and fans have praised Rob Hanes Adventures for capturing the spirit of the classic adventure strip and updating it for the modern day. The late R.C. Harvey lauded the series as “one of the industry’s quietest treasures.”

For more information, visit the WCG Comics website. Randy can also be found on social media on Twitter (@randywcgcomics), Instagram (@randywcg) and Facebook (facebook.com/rhadventures).

See below and here for additional photos from this issue.