The Heat Death of the Universe happened, but humanity has endured in the new sci-fi horror series “Infinite Dark” from Image/Top Cow coming in October. Writer Ryan Cady (“Warframe,” “Magdalena”) is teaming with artist Andrea Mutti (“Rebels,” “Swashbucklers”) and colorist K. Michael Russell (“Glitterbomb”) for the book which follows the story of Deva Karrell, the Security Director aboard The Orpheus, the ship designed to withstand the end of the world, but is severely underpopulated as the human colony ships failed to make it to The Orpheus before they were destroyed.
Cady, in an interview with SyFy Wire talked about some of his inspirations for this new space horror series and how the art reflects that atmosphere:
Inspiration-wise, there’s no bigger compliment you could pay the book than comparisons to Ridley Scott’s Alien. I first saw it when I was way too young and it’s stuck with me ever since. And I think noting Lovecraft is aways unavoidable with books like this, but if I had to pick literary inspirations, Shirley Jackson’s Haunting of Hill House comes first for me. I just reread it last year and its creeping, insistent horror makes me want to push my work to the next level. Between works like that and all the glum emo and post-hardcore I was listening to…a sci-fi horror cocktail like this just seemed inevitable.
Luckily, I have an incredible art team in Andrea Mutti and K. Michael Russell. Those guys make the script sing, and really understand how to just evoke the mood of it all. When I first started getting designs in from Andrea, it changed the whole project – I had to escalate, ramp up the intensity. He was that good I knew I needed to be better. And when Russell started slapping colors on there? Even if I flubbed every script it’d still be a gorgeous, spooky book.
Top Cow Productions was founded by Marc Silvestri who is the current CEO alongside CCO/President Matt Hawkins. They are known for books like “Cyber Force” and “Sunstone,” and “Postal.”
You can check out a preview of the first six-pages of “Infinite Dark” below and find the first issue out in October.
