Despite teasing a brand new quantity of The Umbrella Academy was in the works, there’s nonetheless been no replace. Perhaps followers can console themselves with the information that Gerard Way has a brand new comics mission this summer season from Dark Horse. Way is as soon as once more teaming up with and Shaun Simon, the writing group behind Tales from The Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys: National Anthem, for Paranoid Gardens, a brand new six-issue miniseries artwork by Chris Weston (Judge Dredd, Ministry of Space), colours by Dave Stewart (Hellboy, Shaolin Cowboy: Cruel to Be Kin), and letters by Nate Piekos (Stranger Things: The Voyage, Black Hammer: Reborn).
Here’s how the writer describes the sequence:
Loo is a nurse on the most bizarre care focus on. The workers are usually not fully human, and the circumstances downright unearthly. Aliens, ghosts, superheroes, and extra creatures plague its hallways as each docs and sufferers and the hospital itself appears to be considerably self-aware. Loo believes that regardless of a latest failure at her job she’s been given some form of increased calling in this mysterious place, and decides to rise to the problem. Along the best way, she should battle her manner by means of corrupt workers members, highly effective theme park cults, and her personal private demons and trauma to satisfy this problem and uncover what secrets and techniques the gardens maintain.
Way expressed his nice pleasure for the mission:
“I’m excited to be back with my incredibly handsome and talented brother-from-another-basement Shaun Simon penning a story that’s really special to us, and honored the masterful Chris Weston joined us to create a visually powerful and emotionally tangible physical object that is this comic,” mentioned Way. “I’m now more complete getting to share something we’ve wanted to for a very long time, and working with this fantastic group of individuals in the process.”
Artist Chris Weston added:
“Most folks dream of rubbing shoulders with somebody who’s cool, gifted, mega-successful and who enjoys a wild rock’n’roll way of life. Luckily for Gerard Way the dream got here true when he started working with me on Paranoid Gardens. It will need to have been fairly daunting for him at first, however as soon as he might see previous my notoriety and uncover I’m simply an abnormal joe who shares his love for the 60’s TV present ‘The Prisoner’ we have been in a position to type a joyous union.
“Along together with his equally radical writing associate, Shaun Simon, we’ve created a wild and psychedelic story that mixes Kafkaesque nightmares with candy Silver Age reveries. Within the pages of Paranoid Gardens you’ll discover a curious care-home peopled with aliens, ghosts and caped heroes recovering from psychotic episodes. The very floor it’s constructed on is febrile and fertile; and lusted after by the minions of Mammon.
“It’s the perfect remedy for all those stricken with super-hero fatigue and needing a fix of something a bit more mind-bending and unpredictable.”
Issue #1 will characteristic a die-cut cowl with artwork by Weston and a variant cowl by famend illustrator Motohiro Hayakawa. Successive challenge variants will characteristic paintings by Glenn Fabry, James Stokoe, Tradd Moore, Alice Darrow, and David Macokay.
Paranoid Gardens #1 (of 6) arrives in comedian retailers on July 17, 2024. It is now accessible to pre-order at your native comedian store for $4.99.
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