Ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, DC has announced a new six-issue miniseries from writer Steve Orlando and artist Travel Foreman called “Electric Warriors.” The synopsis for the series reads:
In 2735, the Earth emerges from the Great Disaster to rejoin the galaxy, finding a universe teetering on the brink of galactic war. To forestall Armageddon, interplanetary conflicts are settled through Trial by Combat, with diplomatic gladiators known as Electric Warriors. Against the bloody battlefield of the dead Sector 666, these lone warriors sacrifice their lives to ensure that their worlds may live in an always-fragile peace.
The Great Disaster was the cataclysmic event that set up the dystopian, anthropomorphic future of Jack Kirby and Mike Royer’s “Kamandi.” (It was also the event that Jack Kirby’s OMAC tries to prevent in his eponymous 1974 series.) Whereas, “Kamandi” takes place immediately after the Great Disaster, Orlando explained that, “This is the unexplored future of Jack Kirby’s DC Universe, rising from the Great Disaster of ‘Kamandi.’ If the ‘Legion of Superheroes’ is the universe’s Age of Enlightenment, the setting of ELECTRIC WARRIORS is more akin to the Dark Ages.”
Foreman expressed his excitement about working with Orlando, stating, “What I think people are going to enjoy most about the book are the brand-new characters, each with a tie to DC legacy, set in a section of the DC lore rarely touched upon. It’s going to be a wild ride.” DC released three different character designs by Foreman, which can be found below. Orlando tweeted out that this was the first of his SDCC announcements and also added “We’ll have a #Humanoid Octopus repping Earth.”
“Electric Warriors” #1 will be out in November.
