MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014
COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL: IMAGE COMICS NEW TITLES
Image Comics announced 12 titles at its Image Expo at Comic-Con International in San Diego on Wednesday.
Following is a rundown:
TOKYO GHOST
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Creators: Rick Remender and Sean Gordon Murphy.
Description: Tokyo Ghost welcomes readers to the isles of New Los Angeles, 2189. Humanity has become nothing more than a sea of consumers, ravenous and starving wolves, sick from toxic contamination, who have to borrow, beg, and steal for the funds to buy, buy, buy their next digital fix. Getting a thrill, a distraction from reality, is the only thing left to live for. Entertainment is the biggest industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need the "law" enforced? Led Dent and Debbie Decay, constables of the law, which is a nice way to say "brutal killing machines." The duo are about to be presented with an assignment that will force them out of the decay of LA and into the mysterious lost nation of Tokyo.
Release: 2015.
FROM UNDER MOUNTAINS
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Creators: Marian Churchland, Claire Gibson, and Sloane Leon.
Description: Set in the isolated country of Akhara, rival houses face off in the struggle for political power and military security in From Under Mountains. Three unlikely figures -- a lord's daughter, a disgraced knight, and a runaway thief -- will change the fate of their world, but the only hope of peace may lie with the mystery shrouded goblins and witches, and the ancient powers they command.
Release: 2015.
VALHALLA MAD
Creators: Joe Casey and Paul Maybury
Description:
Valhalla Mad introduces a set of brand new characters: the Glorious Knox, Greghorn the Battlebjorn and Jhago the Irritator. The series depicts this particular trio of fun-loving gods' return to Earth -- Manhattan, specifically -- to drink and party and revel in their resplendent godhood after many decades of being away. Needless to say, they find a very different world than the one they last visited.
Release: Spring 2015.
RUMBLE
Creators:John Arcudi and James Harren.
Description: Rumble is a strange book, that's for sure -- like a scarecrow-Conan fighting in a Louis C.K. TV show directed by David Fincher -- with a supporting cast of odd characters, many of whom aren't even human.
Release: December.
INTERSECT
Creator:
Ray Fawkes.
Description:
Bodies shift and merge, warring with themselves. Blood rains from the skies. A child's song is translated into toxic, thought-destroying whispers. Everything is changing. Everything is wrong. This is the world of Intersect.
Release: November.
THE HUMANS
Creators:
Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller.
Description:
Apart, they are nothing… deemed by society as outcasts, misfits, losers, no good punks! But together, they are The Humans! Follow Bobby, Johnny, and all The Humans as they fight and fly down the road to oblivion on a ride filled with chains, sex, leather, denim, hair, blood, bananas and chrome.
Release: November.
KINSKI
Creators: Gabriel Hardman.
Description:
Description: Kinski, previously a digital-only collection, both written and drawn by Hardman, promises to be a quirky crime thriller about Joe, a down-on-his-luck salesman who finds a cute puppy. The thing is, this puppy already has a home. What starts as a simple rescue mission from neglectful owners quickly escalates into a righteous crusade.
Release: November.
INVISIBLE REPUBLIC
Creators:Gabriel Hardman and Corinna Bechko.
Description: Described as a gritty sci-fi series, Invisible Republic explores the secret history of one man's rise to power after an unspeakable act of violence elevates him to folk-hero status on a war-torn planet seeking independence.
Release: 2015.
SOUTHERN CROSS
Creators: Becky Cloonan and Andy Belanger.
Description: Now boarding: Southern Cross, tanker flight 73 to Titan. Alex Braith is on board retracing her sister's steps to the refinery moon, hoping to collect her remains and find some answers. The questions keep coming though -- How did her sister die? Where did her cabin mate disappear to? Who is that creep across the hall? And why does she always feel like she's being watched?
Release: Winter.
DESCENDER
Creators: Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen.
Description: Descender will explore one young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.
Release: March.
DRIFTER
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Creators: Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein.
Description: Mankind's colonization of the galaxy has left countless planets mined bare and lifeless in Drifter. A space transport crashes onto a backwater world whose unique properties set the stage for a story that combines the dark wonder of a strange and alien landscape with the struggles of an abandoned and lawless frontier town.
Release: November.
TOOTH AND CLAW
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Creators:
Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey.
Description: aAsecret conclave of wizards brings a legendary champion back through time to save the world, with disastrous consequences. Swords, sorcery, animal-wizards, gods, empires, golems of radioactive decay, crystalline badlands, con women, ancient armories, young love, mystery, blood and death and treachery and destiny.
Release: November.
INJECTION
Creators: Warren Ellis and Declan Shalvey.
Description: Injection explores how loud and strange the world is becoming, and the sense that it's all bubbling into chaos -- a chaos poised to become the Next New Normal -- and that we did this to ourselves without thinking for a second about how we were ever going to live inside it.
Release: 2015.
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