Image Announces “Jules Verne’s Lighthouse”

“The Marked” and “Sonata” creators David Hine and Brian Haberlin are reteaming at Image Comics imprint Shadowline for “Jules Verne’s Lighthouse,” a five-issue reimagining of Jules and Michel Verne’s 1905 novel The Lighthouse at the End of the World. The comic will transpose the setting of the book to outer space, where the Lighthouse is a giant supercomputer on the edge of the galaxy, that helps “navigate ships through a sargasso of naturally occurring wormholes, potentially cutting months or even years off a spaceship’s journey.” The crew of the station, who consist of three humans, an alien, and a nanny bot, find themselves under attack from space pirates, led by Captain Kongre, threatening the future of civilization, and revealing shocking secrets that each of the crew have been hiding.

Haberlin said, “Lighthouse is a story that has been in my orbit for years. It’s one of Jules Verne’s most interesting stories on an emotional/psychological level. David and I love playing with flawed characters and this story is simply full of them. A tale of survival and redemption, against all odds at the far corner of the universe!”

Hine commented, “Brian introduced me to this lesser-known Jules Verne story of dastardly brigands and survival on a lonely, windswept island. We did the obvious thing and transformed it into an epic science-fiction tale of space piracy, wormholes, galaxy-spanning conflict and a glitchy but lovable robot called Moses.”

Published after Jules Verne’s death in 1905, The Lighthouse at the End of the World (French: Le Phare du bout du monde) told the story of a group of lighthouse keepers, who discover the island they’ve been posted to in Argentina is the lair of a group of marooned pirates. It was previously adapted into a 1971 movie, The Light at the Edge of the World, starring Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas.

“Jules Verne’s Lighthouse” #1 will be released on April 14, with two variant covers by Haberlin and colorist Geirrod Van Dyke.