Musashi and Son (2025-)
Miyamoto Musashi is the most famous samurai in history, whose exploits have became the stuff of legend. In one tale, he encountered an orphan boy named Iori and adopted him as his own son, training him to become a samurai himself. For historians, it’s unknown why exactly Musashi, a notorious vagrant loner, would adopt or even train a child. And the specifics of Iori’s training and upbringing under such an unlikely father figure have remained a mystery. Until now… Based on a true story, Musashi and Son is a five-part manga series, in which the legendary ronin trains an orphan in the ways of the samurai as they hunt for the criminals who killed the boy’s father. In the process, the naive child becomes a warrior and the hardened samurai develops into becoming a father himself. At the same time, Iori’s training develops into the lessons that Musashi will write in his most famous work, The Book of Five Rings, which is still published for martial artists to this day.
Alter Ego #1 & 2 (2024-)
Synopsis: Alter Ego is a comic series set in a cutthroat Game of Thrones-style world where five families of supervillains rule over a post apocalyptic Detroit while the last remnants of a police force attempt to take back control of their home. At the center is Jace, a vengeful outsider who agrees to go undercover for the cops as a henchman in order to take the families down from the inside. Will he help save the humans in taking back the city? Or is he clearing the board to rule the Five Families himself?
“Shortcut to Happily Ever After,” Metaphorosis Magazine, April 2023
Synopsis:
Daniel is a hopeless romantic who uses time travel to find love. Whenever he meets someone new, he jumps to the future to see if their relationship lasts and if it doesn’t, he returns to the present to cancel the first date before anyone gets hurt. But when his dating strategy starts ruining the fabric of time, Daniel has to go back and live through every relationship he skipped, discovering what he missed the first time around.
Available on the Metaphorosis website here: https://magazine.metaphorosis.com/story/2023/shortcut-to-happily-ever-after-ben-wan/
Phantasm Compendium: A Journey Behind-the-Scenes into the Phantasm Films
“The Phantasm Compendium dives deep into the world of Phantasm. Join author Ben Wan as he sits down with the original creators behind the horror classic film series and learns surprising details about how the films were made. In addition to extensive discussions with the Phantasm stars, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister and Kat Lester, the Phantasm Compendium also includes a major interview with the beloved Tall Man, Angus Scrimm. This exciting book also includes 15 color photographs and an introduction by Phantasm’s writer-director, Don Coscarelli.”