Because we haven’t told you about enough exciting new Image things today, here’s one more.
Before Joe Keatinge became your favorite new writer of 2012 with “Glory” and “Hell Yeah“, he was one of the men behind the Image anthology book “Popgun,” a comic that — similar to Dark Horse’s “Dark Horse Presents” — introduced a fair deal of brand new talented creators to Image’s talent pool. Now, announced on his tumblr blog, Joe is bringing back the spirit of the Popgun anthologies in lieu of the return of the actual book.
Starting with next month’s “Hell Yeah” #3, the book will feature two back-ups to give you more bang for your creator-owned buck. The first is “Baby Girl,” written by the ThreeOneFive writers collective (Matt Heistand, Evin Dempsey and Dan Fifield) and illustrated by the excellent David Hahn, with colors by Rico Renzi and letters/design by Fonografiks. The first adventure, entitled ‘Lost Treasure of the Afrika Korps’, will be serialized in the back of “Hell Yeah” and follows the tale of “a foul-mouthed nymphomaniac who specializes in obtain the unobtainable.”
The story promises over-the-top action and outrageous sexual humor to the tune of this:
Suffice it to say, if you like “Hell Yeah”, you’re probably going to like “Baby Girl” as well.
In addition to “Baby Girl”, each issue of “Hell Yeah” will come with a single page worth of Ryan Ferrier’s “Tiger Lawyer.” Can you guess what it’s about? If you guessed a tiger who is also a lawyer, you guessed correctly. Ferrier will be writing all new one-pagers to go in the back of your copies of “Hell Yeah.”
Additionally, if you’d like to get in on the “Tiger Lawyer” love sooner rather than later, you can snag a digital copy of the first book, ‘Attorney at Rawr’ and ‘Dead Cat Walking’, online and digitally direct from Ryan Ferrier.
Keatinge also notes that there will be more additions to the “Hell Yeah” back-up material, with a brand new thing to being in issue #6 by a writer he is “very, very, very excited about.” Look for the above in next month’s “Hell Yeah,” out May 9th.
