Rob Worley
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Rob Worley is co-author of "Advent Rising: Rock the Planet", a comic-book prequel to the popular Advent Rising video game.
In 1997, Worley founded Comics2Film, the first website dedicated to tracking news about comic-book movies.
In 2003 Worley was picked up as one of the first writers for Marvel Comics' "Epic" line, only to see his project, "Young Ancient One" (a "Dr. Strange" prequel) arrive stillborn as one third of a single-issue anthology in February 2004.
Despite the Epic disappointment, Worley caught the attention of former Marvel President and 360ep founding partner Bill Jemas. In 2005, they collaborated on "Advent Rising: Rock the Planet" alongside Arthur Dela Cruz, Cliff Richards, Dennis Crisotomo, Cris Delara and Simon Bowland, supervised by Advent creator Donald Mustard. Issue #1: New Kid on the Planet, was released October 26th, 2005, and Issue #2: Bodies in Motion (the current issue as of this writing) was released November 30th.
From 2005 to early 2006 he contributed short comics stories to various anthologies published by Italy's Narwain publishing. From October 2005 to April 2006 Worley served as an English language translator on several titles, including "Free Fall", "Tales from a Forgotten Planet" and "Bluff".
In January 2006, after writing two novels for their young readers imprint, Actionopolis, Worley joined Komikwerks as the Director of Web Development. He was instrumental in helping them ramp up the web presence for the new book line as well as enhancing the existing web comics site.
In September 2006 the first of those novels, "Heir to Fire" was published. "Heir to Fire" represents Worley's first published novel.
