THE SEARCHERS
In the tradition of:
The Mysterious Island
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The Time Machine
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Invisible Man
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Island of Dr. Moreau
but updated to fit into today’s world...
...a new team of explorers...THE SEARCHERS
Descendants of the greatest adventurers in literature, they branded together to champion the pursuit of knowledge, the marvels of scientific exploration, and the wonders of investigating the unknown in the world around us.
Before there was a Golden Age, before there was a Silver Age, there was the age of stories. The greatest novelists of Western Civilization brought tales of adventure, space exploration, and the farthest reaches of the unknown. But what if those worlds actually existed?
This is the world of The Searchers. A world where fiction has become reality.
Here a Captain Nemo really sailed a submarine christened the Nautilus...here an Englishman really built and piloted a craft that traveled through the fourth dimension of time...here another Englishman named Fogg traversed the globe in 80 days...and here a man dared to journey deep into the earth’s core. Here too, are the events that carry a darker tone for this is a world where an obscene vivisectionist called Moreau experimented on humans and where a scientist fell to both invisibility and madness.
The Searchers will dare to explore the greatest of marvels, treasures, and horrors of this astounding world.
In the winter of 1896, H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Ryder Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote of something so fantastic and unthinkable, no publisher would have entertained its submission. And yet the world-changing events they detailed in secret diaries were nevertheless absolutely true. A century later, real-life descendants of their greatest characters have banded together in a mutual quest for not only their own survival, but that of reality itself. This is The Searchers. But after you discover that your entire life is based on the dreams and workings of a turn-of-the-century writer, how can you ever go home again? The Searchers mix a blend of all the great literature from which each character is based with today’s readers sensibilities.
"The Searchers is a series that has universal audience appeal to comic as well as non-comic readers," said Caliber Managing Editor James Pruett. "Everyone has heard of War of the Worlds, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Sherlock Holmes, The Time Machine. And these are just some of the classic novels that The Searchers are based on. There truly is something for everyone in this series."
Brief Description: The Searchers are a team of adventurers but with a unique twist. The members are all descendants from legendary figures of adventure fiction. As they are thrown into their greatest adventures, they also have to deal with the fact that the world thinks they don’t exist!
Key Elements: A limitless palate of adventures are possible in the Searchers. Combining the elements of classic literature but updated to fit in today’s world.
Association: The Searchers will appeal to any fan of the great classics of literature that still form the nucleus of even today’s movies and comics. With a modern setting, allowing a greater diversity, The Searchers is a project that is capable of going anywhere and everywhere.
Format: Although the concept of the Searcher’s members striving to determine their place in the real world is a fascinating one, the possibilities of extending the concept into ongoing adventures obviously holds an even greater appeal. Building off the original concepts and the characters’ assimilation into their fictional ancestral counterparts leads to an incredible range of diversity and adventure. Searchers has had two mini-series released.
Additional: Utilizing The Searchers allows a manipulation of new mixing into tried and tested winners of some great classics…classics which have created the genre of action, adventure, and science fiction. The Searchers’ world is one of uniqueness, pulling in familiar and comfortable scenarios with all new diversions. As a property, it can fit into almost any exploitatble medium, whether series, toys, games, online adventures, etc. It's potential is virtually unlimited and it's appeal is universal.
CRITICAL MASS
"Searchers is the comic book I have on the wall with a sign reading- ‘Love books? Never read a comic? Try this one!….money back guarantee…’"
---Dark Star Books, Yellow Springs, Ohio"Searching for an exhilarating and original concept in a comic book? Look no further, because Searchers is here!"
---Claude’s Comics Hatboro, PA 19040Top 10 Comics.
---Comic Shop News- April 1996"Long before League of Extraordinary Gentleman came along, Caliber's Searchers had introduced the great concept of bringing these fictional characters to reality."
---Psycho Comics, 1999
Film Treatment of the Searchers
Character Profiles of the Searchers
Possible Future Storylines
