Brother Man Comics Film

The Story

Big City, The Maxtropolitan Region.
The last place on Earth.

A metropolis where power moves in silence and despair settles like dust across concrete and steel. Here, order has a price. Influence wears a smile. Tomorrow feels indistinguishable from yesterday's nightmare.

From this landscape rises a man who has seen the machinery from the inside and chosen a different path.

Antonio Valor does not seek applause. He does not seek permission. He steps forward under a different name, Brotherman, and accepts the burden of discipline in a city that has forgotten its meaning.

The Maxtropolitan Region does not belong to one will alone.

Behind polished doors and public gestures, figures like Emmet Fourflusher reshape the city's future with careful precision. Deals are made. Lines are drawn. The skyline watches.

As tensions tighten across neighborhoods and institutions alike, Brotherman becomes something the city cannot categorize. Not myth. Not vigilante. Not symbol. Presence.

And in Big City, presence changes everything.

The Maxtropolitan Region has a new resident.

PROJECT STATUS

Development Phase

The proof of concept trailer has been completed, establishing the visual language, tone, and narrative scope of the Brotherman Cinematic Universe. We are currently engaging with production partners, financiers, and distribution collaborators to advance the project into full feature production.

The Players

Characters

The Guardian

Antonio Valor / Brotherman

In Big City, the Maxtropolitan Region, discipline is not a slogan. It is a decision. Antonio Valor moves with purpose through a metropolis that has learned to survive without faith. Operating under the name Brotherman, he imposes order where disorder has taken root, guided not by impulse, but by conviction. He is not seeking approval. He is establishing presence.

The Strategist

Melody Rich

Sharp, perceptive, and composed under pressure, Melody Rich navigates the currents of Big City with clarity and resolve. Where others react, she calculates. Where others retreat, she advances. Her insight and intelligence anchor the mission, ensuring that discipline is not blind and that every move carries intention.

The Enforcer

Duke Denim

A disciplined and relentless operator who understands the machinery of Big City from the inside. As District Attorney, Duke Denim moves through courtrooms and corridors of power with calculated precision, determined to impose order on a region where influence often outweighs truth.

The Architect

Councilman Emmet Fourflusher

A master strategist of the Maxtropolitan Region. Publicly composed and politically polished, Fourflusher reshapes policy, alliances, and opportunity behind closed doors. In Big City, power rarely announces itself. It simply adjusts the outcome.

Setting

The World of Big City

The Maxtropolitan Region

Big City does not sprawl. It looms.

Steel and glass rise above districts that time seems to have forgotten. Neon flickers against brick. Sirens echo between concrete corridors. In the Maxtropolitan Region, power is layered, influence circulates quietly, and every block carries its own code.

The skyline tells one story. The streets tell another.

Boardrooms shape futures few will ever see. Transit platforms hum with lives moving in parallel. Municipal towers stand rigid while neighborhoods endure in their shadows. Every district has memory. Every corner has witnesses.

Big City is not simply divided by wealth or class. It is divided by proximity to power.

And beneath the architecture of order lies a different current. Agreements whispered behind closed doors. Networks built on leverage. Ambition dressed as progress.

This is the terrain Antonio Valor walks.

Not to conquer the city. Not to reform it. But to stand within it.

In the Maxtropolitan Region, presence is power.

And Big City has begun to feel his.

The Creators

The Team

Dawud Anyabwile

Creator • Executive Producer • Director

Dawud Anyabwile is the co-creator and visual architect of the Brotherman Universe, an independent superhero mythology developed over more than three decades. An Emmy Award-winning director, he leads the cinematic expansion of Big City, translating the original graphic legacy into large-scale visual storytelling.

As creative director of the franchise, Anyabwile oversees world-building, tone, and long-form narrative development, positioning Brotherman as a cinematic universe designed for film and serialized platforms.

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Guy A. Sims

Co-Creator • Chief Story Architect

Guy A. Sims is the co-creator and chief story architect of the Brotherman Universe, a pioneering independent superhero mythology developed over more than three decades. As a founding force behind Big City, he has shaped a layered world defined by discipline, consequence, and moral complexity.

Under his narrative direction, Brotherman has evolved from cult classic comic series into an expanding franchise world positioned for cinematic and serialized storytelling.

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Omari Anyabwile

Co-Producer • Editor

Omari Anyabwile is an emerging producer and editor contributing to the cinematic development of the Brotherman Universe. He co-produced and edited the Brotherman proof-of-concept trailer, helping translate decades of graphic storytelling into a contemporary visual format.

Integral in initiating the current phase of franchise expansion, Omari brings a next-generation perspective to the evolution of Big City, focusing on pacing, tone, and audience engagement for modern platforms.

Visual Development