Last week, comiXology announced “The Final Girls,” a new series from Cara Ellison and Sally Cantirino. We told you about the series when it was announced, but we’re back today with some exclusive character designs and descriptions of the characters in the series by writer Ellison. Check it out below!
Written by Cara Ellison
Illustrated by Sally Cantirino
Colored by Gab Contreras
Lettered by Joamette GilDARK ALLEYS
The world’s most powerful working hero, Scathach, asks her retired peers to punish another hero for a crime. Her friends Kogarashi and Bavanshee secretly agree to pay a visit to this hero, Claymore. But Claymore is very popular and famous… And all the kids want to be him when they grow up.Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via comiXology and Kindle.
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Ash married one of her more lucrative hero peers, Claymore, and retired from the hero life to a swanky townhouse in Edinburgh and to the covers of Vogue. Originally from Aberdeen, she speaks thick Doric, a dialect even fellow Scots honestly don’t always understand either. Ash’s main mode of hero expression is that she can manipulate shadows to move and affect things. This is powerful in Scotland because in the winter the sun goes down at 3.30pm.
Claymore is your regular transhuman Silicon Valley millionaire who floats the latest tech solution and then when it goes spectacularly wrong (or reaches planned obsolescence) you call him back in for a large fee to clean up the mess. Generally speaking, he is incredibly famous, very friendly and extremely handsome, so he gets away with just about anything. He’s Ash’s husband.
Kogarashi had a wild time as a superhero in the early 2000s, but she got disillusioned with the panopticon of surveillance via internet that comes with ‘saving’ people, and along with her new love Bavanshee, an immortal vampire from Scotland, she moved to Scotland in search of a quieter life and less of her personal life being ripped apart by people who didn’t have to talk people down from mass shootings.
Old Glory is the ur-superhero, the mentor and the kindly old man hero that everyone looks up to and admires. An icon in the US, he was jailed by the US government for leading protests for pay raises and better working conditions for superheroes. But a lot of his public virtues hide his dark past and a hero origin story that stems from the worst parts of American idealism.
Osua got out of the hero game because the extra scrutiny of online surveillance wasn’t pleasant but also very few people could understand her Glasgow patter anyway. Going back to her original interests, she became a doctor later in life and now works in emergency medicine. She thought she’d got away until Kogarashi busts through the doors again… Never pays to have a talent all your long forgotten friends need.
Power is descended from James Clerk Maxwell, and can conduct electricity. He’s managed to keep working as the working conditions for a blonde handsome man with good abs have remained good in Scotland. He’s complacent though, and has a complicated relationship with his ex-wife Kogarashi, who has a great deal to do with the reason he’s stayed a hero at all.
Scathach is your regular mythic Scottish hero, straight out of the Celtic myths. She’s immortal and the strongest woman in the world, but she eeks by on a tiny UN wage and lives in a wee cottage off the coast of Scotland. Things are fine until she runs into Claymore… Immortality isn’t so great when you don’t find Forever fun.
Selkie is yes, a changeling, although you could be forgiven for not knowing, because she’s not really interested in party tricks until she can use it to her advantage. Until recently she was a ruthlessly efficient spy and infiltrated several depressingly draconian organisations in order to dissolve them, although now she prefers to write investigative journalism and dabble in seducing Power for fun.
