Image Comics has introduced Local Man, a new collection from author/artists Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley. The new collection, on which Fleecs and Seeley are joined by colorists Brad Simpson, Felipe Sobreiro, and Brian Reber, follows a disgraced former superhero who turns into embroiled in a mystery after transferring again dwelling.
Here’s how Image describes Local Man:
Once the star recruit of the media sensation super-team Third Gen, Jack “Crossjack” Xaver had all of it. But when controversy sends him crawling again to his mother and pa’s basement within the Midwest, Jack struggles to suit into a world he left far behind. And then the our bodies begin piling up.
Local Man is introduced in a flipbook fashion, with one aspect of the difficulty, illustrated by Fleecs and Simpson, following Jack within the present and the opposite aspect, illustrated by Seeley and Sobreiro, following his past adventures as a superhero. Fleecs’s cowl for the present-day aspect is above; Here’s Seeley and Reber’s cowl for the superhero aspect:
In saying the e book, Seeley and Fleecs described their method to the collection:
“Local Man is Tony and I teaming up to make a comic book that combines what we love about ’90s superheroes, with our shared affections for crime and horror stories. Part Extreme Studios, part Vertigo Comics. It’s a story about love and loss, and ego, and murder most foul. But it’s also about nostalgia, and promises not fulfilled—with lots of gritted teeth, and epic head punches.” – Tim Seeley
“We wanted to try and make something that captured what we loved about the explosive early Image Comics—while also telling a personal, small town crime story. Sounds cool, right? Cybernetic limbs, telekinetic blasts and pickup trucks.” – Tony Fleecs
Check out a quartet of inside preview pages from the difficulty – two by Fleecs and two by Seeley – beneath. Local Man #1 is due out in shops and digitally on Wednesday, February twenty second.
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