Whether James Tynion IV privileged Dark Horseit must be admitted that the editions Picture Comics have quickly become the natural next stop for comic book projects initially launched on the platform Substack. As if the sign of newsletters had confined itself to a stupid principle of admitted pre-publication. Ultimately, if screenwriters and artists are still working with Substackthe vast majority of them have not given up the desire to have their titles printed on paper – and insofar as this one-of-a-kind partner does not impose any particular conditions to oppose the process , Picture Comics was able to find in this wave of projects a new source of comics to recover.
Next on the list: Saladin Ahmed
The screenwriter of Magnificent Ms. Marvel, Abbott and Miles Morales: The End had actually been part of the wagon of authors interested in the offer of the newsletter platform. And, like the others, Ahmad has now decided to transfer its comics from dematerialized to physical, to the catalog of the publishing house of the brave Eric Stephenson. The title in question is called Terrorwarand presents itself as a tribute to the muscular, colorful and crazy science fiction of the 1980s. critters to be slaughtered, a weary and weary hero but strangely gifted within his profession, in short, a product that comes out of this imaginary displaced in the present.
Terrorwar will indeed take an interest in the daily life of Mohammad Choa mercenary employed by the city of BlueCity to knock out the filthy beast. In this futuristic world, the city forms the last bastion of humanity in the middle of a widely devastated planet. In the old days, BlueCity was even considered a viable environment for the last remnants of the human species – and then, one day, the terrors have arrived. This variety of particularly hostile monsters has the ability to adapt to each other’s fears, and to change form accordingly (“like the boggarts what” yes yes, well done, you got the idea). Cho and his band of underpaid, understaffed gunslingers are the only ones capable of fighting this variety of crap, even if the fight often turns out to be quite rough.
Ahmad talks about a project designed to follow the contours of the 1980s, but moved into themes closer to the present (and in particular the concept of “war on terror“, namely, the hunt for organizations affiliated with terrorism initiated by the United States of George W. Bush in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001). In this adventure, the screenwriter is accompanied by the designer Dave Acostawhich we were able to discover at Dynamite Entertainment on the titles Doc Savage: Ring of Fire, Elvira in Horrorland or The Twilight Zone/The Shadow.
A first issue is announced at Picture Comics for April 19, 2023, with variant coverage of Daniel Warren Johnson.
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