With all of the ruckus about new comics imprints and strains you could have forgotten that AMC has its personal comics line, which was introduced means again in March. Well, they do! And they simply introduced a brand new sequence, and extra key expertise for beforehand revealed sequence.
The new sequence is Parisian White by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Bill Sienkiewicz, a title that has been within the works for a very long time. The e-book is ready in an alternate previous Jazz Age Paris:
A rhyming future, the place artwork is life, and life is expressed within the language of shade. Carmine, a very deep purple, is produced from the our bodies of a South American parasite. French Green is so filled with arsenic that it capabilities as a rat poison. Parisian White threatens demise to anybody so silly as to open a tube. Pigments are phrases and weapons — valuable, costly, fiercely guarded and fought for. When mixed with the best expertise, pigments can seize, rework, or destroy your world.
That sounds fairly wild, but when anybody might seize it, it’s the visionary Sienkiewicz and DeConnick, whose experimental work on Pretty Deadly appears related right here. And as you possibly can see from the pattern artwork…it’s going to look unbelievable.
Two beforehand introduced AMC tasks additionally now have very proficient artists connected. Christine Norrie will draw Nights of Lono, written by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Marcel Feldmar; and Tula Lotay is drawing Brendan Fletcher’s Oubliette.
All three titles will launch in 2023, with particular promotional editions launched on the 2023 San Diego Comic Con.
“We’re excited to add another title to our imprint that will further engage our enthusiastic, genre-loving fanbases with new and compelling worlds,” stated Mike Zagari, Head of AMC Networks Publishing in a press release. “It’s an honor to provide a home to talented creators, writers, artists and storytellers and we’re thrilled to have top industry writer Kelly Sue DeConnick and groundbreaking artist Bill Sienkiewicz on board with Parisian White, as well as welcome the electrifying artistry of Christine Norrie and Tula Lotay on their respective titles.”
More on each tasks:
Nights of Lono tells the story of a troubled feminine detective in 1989 Hawaii who’s employed to seek out King Kamehameha’s tomb earlier than it’s found by an unscrupulous occultist from the mainland. A mixture of thriller and supernatural journey, the story is a self-aware journey by normal detective tropes and cliches which might be sharpened and given new life with contemporary takes on the myths and folklore of the Hawaiian Islands.
Oubliette, takes place in a small city the place individuals dwell by a easy rule: “If you were born of the earth around the lake, then around the lake you shall stay until you return to the earth”. The story explores the battle of a lady who escaped the inconceivable gravity of her birthplace solely to be drawn house to bury her father. She finds herself as soon as once more trapped in a cycle of ache and remorse as she digs into the thriller of the sinkhole that drained the lake and took her father’s life. There’s one thing darkish and depraved down there, in that gap within the lake. Something that’s been ready a protracted, very long time to come back to the floor…
Other introduced AMC Networks Publishing comics tasks embrace Shudder’s Creepshow: From Script to Scream, based mostly on the hit anthology sequence from Greg Nicotero (The Walking Dead), Stan Spry (The Cartel), Russell Binder (Striker Entertainment), which is able to debut in partnership with Titan Booksl and an OGN, Miss Fisher’s First Mysteries, based mostly on the hit Acorn TV sequence Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries written by Cecil Castelluci (Shade The Changing Girl, Star Wars: Moving Target),.
More about all of those tasks might be discovered at their web site: AMCNP.com
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