At C2E2, Lion Forge Comics have announced “Army Of One,” a creator-owned title by writer Tony Lee (“Doctor Who”), artist Yishan Li (“Hellboy and the B.P.R.D 1956”), and colorist Bryan Valenza (“Witchblade”) starting in October. The comic tells the story of 17-year old Carrie Taylor, who after being saved from monsters by doppelgängers of herself, learns “she is one of a thousand shattered shards of Sister Fortune, a great Mystic from another dimension; scattered into the multiverse after an apocalyptic battle with her greatest rival, Brother Havoc.”
The “shards” of Sister Fortune have been trapped in an endless cycle of death and rebirth fighting each over for a thousand years, but Carrie must now join a group of rebellious doppelgängers, who have banded together to stop Brother Havoc from taking over the multiverse.
Editor Mike Kennedy said, “This is a really exciting adventure on an epic scale – multiple parallel universes colliding in an ageless battle between Good and Evil. But what makes this series so engaging is never knowing who truly is Good or Evil… different universes have different definitions, and our parallel heroines have different agendas and backstory motivations. This is a complex and exciting new storyline that I think readers will really get sucked into!”
Lion Forge also announced a print collection of Ariel Slamet Ries’s Ignatz Award-nominated webcomic “Witchy.” The ongoing fantasy comic is set in the kingdom of Hyalin, where witches are conscripted into the Witch Guard, and follows a young witch named Nyneve, whose father was executed by the Witch Guard. “When conscription rolls around, Nyneve has a choice to make; join the institution complicit in her father’s death, or stand up for her ideals?” The first collection will be published in September, “just in time for back-to-school reading.”
