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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015IDW PUBLISHING NEWS ROUNDUPIDW Publishing has made several announcements for projects launching this summer.
Following is a roundup:
FIRE AND GODZILLA: Godzilla in Hell will be a five-issue miniseries launching in July.
Here's how the series is described by IDW:
"With no warning and no sign of salvation, Godzilla is plummeted to the deepest, darkest bowels of the infernal kingdom. The mystery of what led to Godzilla's damnation, and what it will face, will take readers on a dark and twisted journey unlike any Godzilla story before!"
A rotating creative team will each take Godzilla through a new and more dangerous layer of Hell, beginning with writer and artist James Stokoe, who is returning to the character for the first time since his miniseries, Godzilla: The Half Century War.
Successive issues will feature talents familiar to the Godzilla franchise, including the writer/artists Bob Eggleton; and Dave Wachter; Wachter most recently wrapped up the apocalyptic take on Godzilla in Godzilla: Cataclysm.
New to the world of Godzilla will be writers Ulises Farinas, and Erick Freitas, together on issue #3 and Brandon Seifert, tackling issue #4; artists will be announced on these issues at a later time.
This series will join a number of other major debuts in July as part of the Five Featured Firsts program, which launches a brand new title each and every week in July. Additionally, the debut issue will feature an EC Comics homage variant cover by Godzilla: Rulers of Earth artist Jeff Zornow as part of EC Cover Month.
ONYX ON THE WAY: Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez are releasing their first co-creation, a four-issue series titled Onyx, beginning in July.
Onyx tells the tale of a female metal-suited warrior who comes to Earth on a quest to either save the planet or destroy it. It's up to a team of super-soldiers to figure out which before it's too late, and before a much greater threat overwhelms both them and the planet itself.
Onyx will be introduced in a standalone 5-page story, Onyx #0, that will be included as a free bonus story in many of IDW's May titles.
Onyx #1 will feature covers by Rodriguez, Ashley Wood, a plush version by Charles Paul Wilson III, an EC Comics homage cover as part of IDW's EC Comics tribute month by Alan Robinson and an incentive cover by Sal Buscema.
"To jump into an action packed sci-fi adventure is something I've been hoping for a chance to do for years," Rodriguez, "and to have the opportunity to share this wild trip with longtime friend and collaborator Chris Ryall, with a creation of our own, is the perfect way to do it. And not only as we're trying a creative work approach that's both new and challenging for both of us, but also because I think we've found a powerful character to give proper voice to lots of exciting ideas we want to explore. And I'm additionally enthusiastic about the visual feast this story is daring me to provide."
STRING DIVERS: Artist/designer Ashley Wood's next comic-book project at IDW will be String Divers, an August-debuting series blending a team of robot adventures and string-theory physics. String Divers will be directed and overseen by Wood, written by Chris Ryall and drawn by Nelson Daniel.
Spun out of Woods' 3A Toys' line of figures, String Divers incorporates string theory as threats to our universe at the sub-microscopic level have dire and lasting repercussions in our universe and across all dimensions.
Wood will be providing covers, with Daniel providing variant covers.
SHRINKING, MAN: IDW will be adapted the late Richard Matheson's science fiction novel, The Shrinking Man, into a four-issue series. Ted Adams, IDW's CEO & Publisher, is adapting the material, alongside artist Mark Torres.
To further emphasize the series' classic appeal, the debut issue will be a part of IDW's month-long EC Comics cover month promotion. The Shrinking Man #1 will be one of a dozen IDW titles getting a variant cover that pays tribute to the classic EC Comics cover designs from the 1950s. The Shrinking Man #1's homage to Al Feldstein's brilliant Weird Science #12 from the June 1950 cover is also being drawn by series artist Torres.
Originally published in 1956, The Shrinking Man has been adapted into a motion picture and won the 1958 Hugo award for best science fiction/fantasy dramatic presentation. This legendary tale chronicles the events of an average family man, Scott Carey, who, after being exposed to a mysterious cloud, comes to the frightening realization that he is shrinking slowly day-by-day. His everyday existence as a husband and father is thrown into chaos as he struggles with not just shrinking smaller and smaller but with the possibility that he may disappear all together. All ideas of normal fade as Carey becomes a national spectacle and his family converts into unreachable giants. He is pushed to the very limits of fear and existence with each passing day becoming a struggle just to survive.
The Shrinking Man will be part of IDW's Five Featured Firsts, which sees a new series launching each of the five Wednesdays in July.
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