The Trap (Paperback)

In a future where Earth is a neglected backwater in a vast interstellar alliance, a young athlete’s meteoric rise in a gravity-defying sport turns into a desperate fight to escape the systemic forces threatening to trap him forever.

Jaylen Robinson is a rising sports star from a not-so-great part of the galaxy: Earth. The future is his. This is his chance. But when a desperate job goes wrong just days before a big race, Jaylen’s promising sports career threatens to succumb to THE TRAP.

Seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker and former Chicago Bear LANCE BRIGGS, Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated writer KYLE HIGGINS (RADIANT BLACK, Immortal Legend Batman), and rising star artist DANILO BEYRUTH (DEEP CUTS, Catwoman) bring you a fast-paced epic about second chances in a world where hard work and talent is no guarantee for success.

Sacramento, California native Lance Briggs started his sports career playing baseball for Florin Little League at 6 years old. Due to a suspension of the South Sac Vikings Youth Football Club, Lance started his football career with the Elk Grove Knights at the age of 7. In Elk Grove, Lance found a community that would not allow him to fail. He commuted to and attended Elk Grove High School, from Sacramento, and during his senior year, accepted a scholarship to play football and attend college at the University of Arizona. While at Arizona, he was a three-time first-team All-Pac-10 Conference selection as a linebacker for the Wildcats football team.

The Chicago Bears selected Briggs in the third round (68th overall) of the 2003 NFL Draft. He was the 13th linebacker drafted in 2003 and went on to play 12 yrs for the Bears as a 7x Pro Bowler as well as a 3x All Pro. 

Kyle Higgins is a #1 New York Times bestselling author best known for his work on DC Comics’ Batman titles as well as his critically-acclaimed reinventions of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers for Boom! Studios and Ultraman for Marvel Comics. RADIANT BLACK is Kyle’s fourth series for Image Comics.

Danilo Beyruth is a Brazilian comic book creator born in 1973. In Brazil, he has written and drawn a dozen graphic novels, including Band of Two, a western set in the early 1900s, Necronaut, a superhero horror, Love Kills, a contemporary vampire story, and Samurai Shirô, a yakuza tale set in the Brazilian Japanese colony. 

For Mauricio de Sousa (Brazil's Disney), Danilo created the adult version of the classic character Astronaut, now on its fifth album, and currently set to be adapted by HBO (for animation). Danilo's books have been published in Argentina, Italy, Spain, Poland, France, Portugal, Germany and Belgium.

For the US he has worked as a penciler/Inker on such books as Fubar and Jesus Hates Zombies, as well as Ghost Rider, Gwenpool, Deadpool vs Gambit, Deadpool & Cable, Howard the Duck, Guardians of the Galaxy and Carnage.

Tamra Bonvillain is a colorist who has contributed work to several Image series: Wayward, Rat Queens, Penny Dora & The Wishing Box, and more. Her color work has also been published at most of the major comic publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and several others. She's a graduate of The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey, and currently resides in North Augusta, South Carolina.