private industry publishing founded 2004 headquarters chicago illinois key people c. jeffrey wright ceo michael davis vp creative cherly clemetson vp editorial kathy steward editor trudi gentry brand manager products comic books website theguardianline.com the guardian line is a christian comic book line published by umi media a division of publishing and media firm urban ministries inc. 1 contents 1 publishing history 2 titles 3 references 4 external links publishing history edit the line launched in december 2006 and was created by michael davis co founder of milestone media and the comic static static was made into a wb cartoon called static shock . the four debut titles on the line are code joe & max the seekers and genesis 5 . the characters inhabit the guardian universe located in the fictional city of new hope . the line is distributed by diamond comic distributors and umi . titles edit code think jason bourne meets john shaft with a bible . this guy can t remember a thing except the fact that he s defending the city of new hope from steven dark . jesse from the seekers this kid finds an ipod in the church and decides to take it for a spin . turns out the player is a time travel machine that gives him and his best friend the ability to travel back in time . joe a braided up 11 year old boy with his own guardian angel max . joe can save new hope in the future but not if steven dark gets him first . max protects him but only by speaking in scripture from the bible . the messenger this wise old man links the characters to god . references edit urban ministries sunday school curriculum christian books and christian spiritual blog external links edit urban ministries inc. this article about a comics publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the guardian line & oldid 686109864 categories christian comics2004 in comicscomic book publishing companies of the united statescomics company stubshidden categories all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 october 2015 at 02 16 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view