Announced this morning, Image will be releasing a new ongoing series in July called “Dark Engine” from Ryan Burton and John Bivens. Starring the character of Sym, the book finds her traveling back in time to take out her creator’s enemies. But as the series unfolds, Sym finds herself on a different path, one of her own making.
Burton and Bivens are both newcomers to the Image fold, and the teaser image for the series is pretty exciting, like a mix of other Image books “Pretty Deadly” and “Undertow.” While there’s little more to ascertain from this other than assumed aesthetic, it should be exciting to see what comes from this series when it debuts in July.
For the full press release from Image, please see below.
Image Comics Press Release
Ryan Burton teams up with John Bivens for an all-new ongoing series that blends elements of dark fantasy and action with mystery.
With ribsword in hand, with gore in her curling locks, Sym has been sent to the distant past to murder her creators’ enemies. But the twisted alchemists who made Sym do not know that the engine that powers her is sentient, that it is the seed of their destruction. By blood and by fury, Sym will carve out her destiny in this new ongoing series.
DARK ENGINE is about the evil things that lurk inside us all. “Some drive us, some are alive and thinking. And Sym will learn just exactly what drives her, and why she was sent back in time to essentially murder anything standing,” explained Burton. “Of course, John [Bivens] does a brilliant job of capturing the enormous scope of the story, whether it’s showing the stygian machinations of Sym’s creators or the harrowing vistas that are littered with the husks of old Lovecraftian monsters, it’s all there.”
DARK ENGINE #1 arrives in stores on 7/16, and will be available for $3.50. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code MAY140574.
