Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard explore a new superhero comic dynamic with THE POWER FANTASY

At Emerald City Comic Con final Friday, bestselling, award profitable author Kieron Gillen introduced particulars at his Spotlight panel about his upcoming comic e-book The Power Fantasy with artist Caspar Wijngaard.

The premise and idea is specified by a two-page comic advert launched on the e-book’s announcement.

It’s a world the place “Superpowered” has a particular which means. It’s reserved solely for these with the harmful potential of the nuclear arsenal of probably the most highly effective nations on Earth. There are presently six superpowered beings, and the way forward for the planet is reliant on them by no means, ever coming into battle.

According to Gillen in an unique scoop with The Hollywood Reporter:

“The Power Fantasy emerged in a similar way to The Wicked + The Divine. I was doing a book at Marvel, and became aware of exactly the sort of things I could do with the reins taken off. As The Wicked + the Divine was to Young Avengers, this is to Immortal X-Men. It’s a comic informed by superheroes, but one where a fight is the absolute lose state, for everyone. It’s set from 1945-1999, and so is a chance to really have fun with an alternate cultural history too. I think you can see it as an extension of my best work: WicDivian alternate-pop culture, a cold-war take on Uber’s realpolitik, Die’s social group drama hyper-charged by genre…”

Wijngaard added:

“Once Kieron had pitched the basic outline for The Power Fantasy I knew this was the story I felt comfortable most telling. We’ve been able to create some incredible characters, each with their own vibrant personalities and worlds in which they inhabit. If you are a fan of my most recent image titles Home Sick Pilots and All Against All, you’ll see a lot of its DNA here. I’m truly putting everything I’ve learned into this series, and The Power Fantasy is a large and beautiful canvas for me to operate on.”

The Power Fantasy #1 will probably be out there at comic e-book outlets in August and may also be out there throughout many digital platforms, together with Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.