If you’re a fan of Brandon Graham like we are, it’s a good time to be you: not only is Graham going to be writing one of the Liefeld Extreme 2012 relaunches on Prophet with artist Simon Roy, he will also be contributing a new piece to Dark Horse Presents #7 entitled The Speaker.
Here’s Graham’s description of the book, straight from the press release:
A man loses his voice–his voice goes off to see the world. Years later the man dies and the voice that walks like a man hears the news and returns home. The Voice has to deal with all the personifications of the man’s doubts, secrets, and ideas that are left behind.
It’s got doubts using tuning forks like guns and ideas that smash the light bulbs over their heads like they were bottles in a bar fight.
Those of you who read Graham’s King City are assuredly familiar with his unique sense of style and humor, but for those of you who aren’t, let me say this: you’re probably going to want to go get yourself a copy of King City right about now. Graham is a name that should be in your lexicon of favorite creators already, so whatever he has planned for this story will definitely be worth checking the issue out for.
While the Dark Horse press release is a tad ambiguous, it does seem that Graham might have more in the works for the Speaker beyond the one story. Just like Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson’s The Massive is jumping out of Dark Horse Presents into a full-blown ongoing series, it is possible that we might see the next Brandon Graham book at Dark Horse with the Speaker — although, we should note that from merely browsing his site, it does seem like he’s trying to finish work on Multiple Warheads, so who knows.
Check after the cut for the full press release from Dark Horse Comics.
Brandon Graham, creator of King City and Multiple Warheads and writer of Prophet, one of the series in the heavily NYCC-hyped Extreme Studios relaunch, will be making his Dark Horse Presents debut in issue #7!
“A man loses his voice–his voice goes off to see the world. Years later the man dies and the voice that walks like a man hears the news and returns home. The Voice has to deal with all the personifications of the man’s doubts, secrets, and ideas that are left behind.
“It’s got doubts using tuning forks like guns and ideas that smash the light bulbs over their heads like they were bottles in a bar fight,” says Graham.
Graham’s work is widely known and followed through his blog, http://royalboiler.wordpress.com/.
Stay tuned for more about original stories premiering in Dark Horse Presents!
Dark Horse Presents #7 is on sale December 21, 2011, and also contains brand-new Age of Reptiles, Skeleton Key, and Hellboy stories.
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Since 1986, Dark Horse Comics has proven to be a solid example of how integrity and innovation can help broaden a unique storytelling medium and establish a small, homegrown company as an industry giant. The company is known for the progressive and creator-friendly atmosphere it provides for writers and artists. In addition to publishing comics from top talent like Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman, Gerard Way, and comics legend Will Eisner, Dark Horse has developed such successful characters as the Mask, Timecop, and SpyBoy. Additionally, its highly successful line of comics and products based on popular properties includes Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, Conan, Emily the Strange, Tim Burton, Trigun, Serenity, and Domo. Today Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent comic-book publisher in the US and is recognized as one of the world’s leading publishers of licensed comics material.
