Early career He started his comic career immediately after college, illustrating for Friendly Comics in 1992, an
adult comics imprint of
Personality Comics, co-owned by Eric Shefferman. Later, at Shefferman's
Triumphant Comics, he illustrated
Chromium Man. Pollina's work was spotted by writer
Jeph Loeb, and in 1994 Loeb and Pollina collaborated on
Loose Cannon, a
DC Comics four-issue limited featuring
Superman.
Marvel: 1995–1998 Pollina's work was then noticed by
Marvel Comics founder
Stan Lee, which led to work at Marvel. Pollina's Marvel included a run on
X-Force, the limited series
Rise of Apocalypse, the occasional issue of
Generation X, and a variety of other contributions. Pollina began to pencil
X-Force in 1995 with issue #44 and continued as regular penciler until #81 in 1998.
Video game industry During this time, Pollina began working in the
video game industry, illustrating character design for
EA Sports on such groundbreaking games as
James Bond:
Golden Eye,
NBA Street Vol. 2,
SSX Tricky,
Def Jam Vendetta Wrestling, and
God of War for
Sony Activision. Approached by
Stan Winston Studios in 2001, Pollina was hired to design the female Terminator in
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. In 2002, he produced the
creator-owned limited series
Big Daddy Danger, which was published by DC Comics and purchased by
Disney Studios in 2003. In 2002, Pollina directed his first music video,
Enemy, for the band
Sevendust. Pollina went on to direct several other music videos for bands like
My Morning Jacket,
Tsar,
Elkland, and
The Blue Van.
2008: return to Marvel In 2008 Pollina returned to Marvel, teaming up with writer
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to retell
Angel's origin story in the five-issue mini series
Angel: Revelations. The story tells how Warren overcomes the trials and tribulations of a cold family life, his growing physical mutation while living at boarding school, abuse of power from authority figures, and deals with a religious zealot on a murdering crusade across America. In 2021, Adam Pollina,
Matt Kindt, and
Matt Hollingsworth created the fantasy book
Whalesville, published by Bad Idea. Pollina partnered with an all-star creative team to launch Rebel Studios, a multi-platform gaming and content provider. Their first project, titled
EY3K0N, was a genesis
NFT collection successfully launched in 2022. ==Bibliography (selected) ==