Image prepares another comic book onslaught.
Spring is around the corner, and that means comic book convention season is upon us. Emerald City Comic Con just wrapped up in Portland, OR this past weekend, and there were several big announcements made at the show. Scroll down to find out what we learned at the show, including who will be taking over Marvel's Uncanny Avengers and what new projects to expect from Image Comics this year.
New Uncanny Avengers Creative Team
Marvel didn't announce any new series at ECCC (they already have a pretty crowded lineup in the next few months), but they did reveal the new creative team for Uncanny Avengers at their "Next Big Thing" panel. Writer Jim Zub (Thunderbolts) and artist Kim Jacinto (Venom: Space Knight) will take over the series starting with June's Uncanny Avengers #24.
Issue #24 will kick off a two-part tie-in to this summer's Secret Empire event. But don't expect a drastic overhaul of the team's lineup. Zub told Marvel.com, "To me, the team feels like a family. We’ve seen them on other teams and they’ve had other loyalties, but the missions they’ve gone on as Avengers have created a strong bond. They have to look out for each other."
Clue
IDW Publishing has already built up an entire shared universe of Hasbro properties like Transformer, G.I. Joe and Rom, so why not the enduringly popular board game, Clue? IDW revealed that writer Paul Allor (TMNT Universe) and artist Nelson Daniel (Dungeons & Dragons) are hard at work on a new Clue comic. The series will feature updated takes on the iconic cast (including a very '80s rock-inspired Miss Scarlett) and a generally humorous tone in keeping with the game.
Fans of the Clue movie will be pleased to know that Clue #1 will even feature three alternate endings. Look for that issue to hit stores in June.
Mage: The Hero Denied
Matt Wagner's Mage is one of the great unfinished sagas in comics. Finally, 18 years after Wagner finished work on Mage: The Hero Defined, he'll be wrapping up the trilogy with Mage: The Hero Denied.
Wagner revealed that the new series will be similar in scope to the previous two volumes, spanning 15 issues in total (with the finale being double-length) and also featuring an introductory #0 issue. The series has also found a new home with publisher Image Comics (which hopefully means we'll see new TPB collections of the older Mage material in the near future). Fans will get their first taste of The Hero Denied at SDCC this summer, where Image will debut Mage: The Hero Denied #0.
Black Crown
Former Vertigo editor Shelly Bond has found a new home at IDW Publishing. The company announced a new imprint called Black Crown, which will be supervised by Bond and focus on creator-owned projects. Black Crown will feature a mixture of ongoing books, mini-series and original graphic novels.
Bond isn't ready to reveal any creators involved with her new imprint yet, but she did explain Black Crown's general approach in an interview with The Beat. "The thing that’s so important is that the books are weird and frenetic, dark and deep and they inspire multiple reads and amazing soundtracks. And they also have black humor which is something we all need right now in these crazy times of social and political rhetoric. We need books that take us into interesting places. These are books that are going to step up and make a statement."
New Image Comics
There's no new Image Expo scheduled until February 2018, so the publisher used ECCC as a chance to announce a number of new projects debuting in the coming months. In fact, no less than 14 new Image books were announced in addition to Mage: The Hero Denied.
Writer Ales Kot has two new creator-owned comics lined up. The first is Generation Gone (with artist Andre Lima Araujo), about a pair of bank robbers who gain superhuman powers. The second is The New World (with artist Tradd Moore), which is set in Los Angeles after a second American Civil War.
Writer Justin Jordan also has a pair of new Image books in the works. The Family Trade (with co-writer Nikki Ryan and artist Morgan Beem) focuses on the defenders of a floating city in a flooded, post-apocalyptic world. The Death of Love (with artist Donal DeLay) is about a man who begins hunting ad killing cupids.
The eternally prolific Jeff Lemire will be teaming with artist Phil Hester for The Family Tree, about a family desperately searching for a cure for their daughter, who's literally turning into a human tree.
Sara Vaughn and Leila Del Duca are collaborating on Sleepless, a historical fantasy story about a knight who falls in love with the woman he's tasked with protecting.
Other new books announced include Irish crime comic Savage Town (by Declan Shalvey and Phillip Barrett), the witch-themed Redlands (Jordie Bellaire and Vanessa del Ray), supernatural thriller Sacred City (Pablo Raimondi and Klaus Janson), "fantasy culinary" comic Flavor (Joe Keatinge and Wook Jin Clark),Detroit-based heist comic The Hard Place (Doug Wagner and Nick Rummel), werewolf romance Moonstruck (Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle), the self-explanatory Shirtless Bear Fighter (Jody Leheup, Sebastian Girner and Nil Vendrell) and The New Lieutenants of Metal (Joe Casey and Ulises Farinas), which is said to pay homage to Image's early '90s period.
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