Rylend has worked for 15+ years in Hollywood, developing film and television projects - mostly big, poppy action movies - with folks like Ridley Scott, JJ Abrams, F. Gary Gray, Justin Lin, John Woo, and Luc Besson. His sci-fi thriller STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS (starring Emile Hirsch) will hit theaters this summer. And his latest and greatest effort, a collaboration with Matt Dylan and Academy Award winning director Fernando Trueba, is set to premiere on a major streamer this fall. In the comics arena, he's written ABERRANT, a political action thriller that won a Ringo Award a few years back and was nominated for two others (including BEST WRITER and BEST SINGLE ISSUE). His dark superhero noir, BANJAX, made over a dozen critics’ ten best lists in 2019 and was nominated for four Ringo Awards, including BEST SERIES (along-side Bitter Root and Something’s Killing the Children). His most recent book - a Tokusatsu joint titled SUICIDE JOCKEYS - is in comic shops now via Source Point Press. He also happens to be an ordained Soto Zen monk in the lineage of Gudo Nishijima and Brad Warner. He once taught Mike Tyson how to meditate.