Christopher Condon, Phil Hester, Melissa Flores’ Xino

Right now, as ComicsPRO 2023 is starting in Pittsburgh, PA, Oni is constant to roll out its promised slate of stories and bulletins. Sierra Hahn had signed on because the writer’s new Editor-in-Chief. Yesterday, they introduced that former Third Eye Comics retailer Michael Torma was additionally coming aboard as to steer the corporate’s gross sales technique, whereas selling editor Desiree Rodriguez to go up the corporate’s social media and digital content material technique. Now, as revealed by way of pre-arranged PR at Popverse, they’re onto new content material with a “subversive, psych-surrealist science fiction” anthology collection known as Xino – and the primary situation is ready to function a fairly heady line-up of “celebrated creators from Oni’s recent past and imminent future” which can be notably new to Oni Press, and really acquainted to Image Comics, reminiscent of:

• Christopher Condon, author of Image’s much-acclaimed That Texas Blood, with artwork by Nick Cagnetti, who lately concluded Oni breakout collection Pink Lemonade
• Melissa Flores, who’s taken the reins on Boom’s Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise whereas additionally shepherding the Radiantverse title The Dead Lucky at Image, alongside artist Daniel Irizarri of Judge Dredd fame
• Comics nice Phil Hester, who’s concluding his artwork duties on Tom King‘s Gotham City: Year One (and in addition returned to Image final 12 months for Family Tree with Jeff Lemire)
• And newcomer Jordan Thomas, who’s working alongside Image stalwart Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin, The Beef)

Here’s how Oni describes the collection:

Oni Press is proud to announce an all-new limited-series occasion, solely perceptible in three dimensions as XINO #1 – the primary of three, 40-page intra-ocular lozenges of subversive, psych-surrealist science fiction to treatment your terrible consciousness of our meager actuality.

Try to not fear — the implantation course of will likely be guided by the megawatt brilliance of Oni’s brightest abilities—previous, current, and future—as they slowly tune your hopes, desires, wishes, paranoia, alienation, anxiousness, and adrenaline to provide the specified outcomes.

In our first exploratory outing: Rising stars Melissa Flores (The Dead Lucky, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) & Daniel Irizarri (Judge Dredd) surgically activate the hidden dimensions of the human senses; cult phenoms Christopher Condon (That Texas Blood) and Nick Cagnetti (Pink Lemonade) debut the world’s first intravenous online game system; underground radicals Jordan Thomas (Weird Work) and Shaky Kane (Bulletproof Coffin) surveil the suburbs for indicators of covert infiltration; grasp cartoonist and foundational Oni creator Phil Hester (Gotham City: Year One, The Coffin) returns to the fold to go away his deepest mark but

“Oni’s commitment to creator-owned comics runs deep, and, with XINO, we’re paying tribute to some of the company’s earliest and most beloved releases, like the seminal ONI DOUBLE FEATURE, while teeing up some big pieces for the future,” says collection editor Zack Soto. “This is big-swing, big-idea science fiction with an edge—the exact kind of thing that made me fall in love with the comics medium in the first place.”

Clocking in at 40 pages per situation with “rotating cast of new creators” for the rest of the three-issue collection, XINO #1 (of three) arrives on the 14th of June and options first situation covers by Matt Lesniewski (Crimson Flower), André Lima Araújo (A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance), Matt Sheean & Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn), and Shaky Kane (Deadline, 2000 AD):

Expect extra information from Oni as ComicsPRO 2023 continues all through the week.