Alex Ross is a fantastic artist whose work on books like Kingdom Come, Marvels, and Justice is just… staggering. However, lately he’s been in the creative mood that leaves him writing and plotting, focusing his work on covers rather than interiors. You might know Ross’ current stories in the form of Project Superpowers and Invaders Now! at Dynamite/Marvel, and now Alex Ross is putting together a new book: Bring The Thunder.
Launching in December, written by Jai Nitz and arted by Wilson Tortosa, Thunder tells the tale of Air Force para-rescue jumper Wayne Russell, a soldier in Afghanistan who gets in an accident, grabs an unknown weapon, and has it backfire on him. Of course, this is some kind of “alien” weapon of sorts, and instead of killing him it gives him new powers, and the series follows him as he returns home to struggle with new adversaries. As Ross said over at Newsarama,
This is much more of a humanistic story based around the experience of what happens with the separation of men and women who go off to serve and then return to a world that in many ways doesn’t know them or they can’t recognize, time has marched on and the adjustment is a bizarre one and taking that idea and putting it in a metaphor of a comic book superhero journey.
Sounds fun and all, but does anyone else miss Ross on interiors?
For more on the book, be sure to head over to Newsarama.
