We jumped the gun on this a bit yesterday, but now we’re sharing this with you again — just with one minor tweak.
At this year’s NYCC, Image announced that they would be relaunching properties from Rob Liefeld’s Extreme Studios with a bevy of new talent including Joe Keatinge, Tim Seeley and Brandon Graham, as well as unproduced scripts from Alan Moore. The whole endeavor would put fresh faces on older properties, and hopefully redesign all of these characters and ideas for a new generation of readers.
Along with the announcement, Image handed out copies of a free teaser book with previews of all the titles involved. Considering that not everyone was able to go to the con, Image has put the entire book online for free via Comixology, Graphicly, iVerse and Diamond Digital absolutely free. Give then that they’re just throwing this free book out at you, it’d be silly not to give it a look, wouldn’t it? Especially when there are so many reasons to actually be quite excited about this news. The whole endeavor is being edited by Eric Stephenson, which is all the more reason to be quite excited about what is to come.
Generally speaking, as far as unexpected line-wide relaunches go, things are looking quite great here.
Take a look after the jump for the press release about Image’s previews for the Extreme 2012 rollout, and be sure to head to your digital comic vendor of choice for a copy of the free preview book. And hey, if unproduced Alan Moore scripts don’t get you excited, I really don’t know what will.
Beginning today, a gorgeous full color preview book of several recently announced Extreme titles is now available online for free at ImageComics.com. The printed Extreme Preview book was debuted this past weekend at New York Comic Con, when the publisher announced the return of several original titles that were created by a talented and prolific young Rob Liefeld (Deadpool, YOUNGBLOOD, THE INFINITE) in the early 1990s.
“It is with great enthusiasm that nearly twenty years from the day that I launched Extreme Studios that Image Comics has partnered with me to return these dynamic titles to a comic store near you!” exclaimed Liefeld. “Current Image Comics Publisher and former Extreme Editor-in-Chief Eric Stephenson and I have had a blast putting together the creative teams that are creating bold, new visions of the Extreme Universe!”
Joining Image for the return of these Extreme titles are some of the best and brightest talents of the comics business today, including Brandon Graham and Simon Roy on PROPHET, Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell on GLORY, Alan Moore, Erik Larsen & Cory Hamscher on SUPREME, Tim Seeley and Francheco Gaston on BLOODSTRIKE, and John McLaughlin, Jon Malin, and Rob Liefeld himself on YOUNGBLOOD!
Liefeld continued: “The work of Brandon Graham and Simon Roy on PROPHET is a revelation to behold! It is a stunning new vision of a man out of time and place. GLORY by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell is simultaneously gorgeous and vicious. It leaps off the page, and re-introduces a bold heroine truly unlike any in comics right now! BLOODSTRIKE by Tim Seeley and Francheco Gaston is a cool, smart, savvy action yarn — Mission Impossible by way of Universal Soldier. It’s guns blazing, immortal soldiers that are definitely keeping score! YOUNGBLOOD by Black Swan scribe John McLaughlin, myself and Jon Malin is a 21st century face lift that boasts a wild, imaginative new direction for the book that launched Image Comics!
“And finally, SUPREME returns after a 12-year hiatus with superstars Alan Moore and Erik Larsen at the helm. Finishing Alan’s story has been the single biggest fan demand of the last decade, and Erik Larsen and Cory Hamscher finish it off in style and embark on the boldest, most controversial Supreme epic ever! Having seen the first three issues, I can tell you that Larsen is having the time of his life with this book, combining elements of my run and Alan’s run into one twisted tale!
“We are so excited about this that we are giving the entire 32-page preview book away online for FREE! Check it out and let us know what you think!”
The Extreme Preview book will also be available for free at Image Comics’ digital partners, ComiXology, Graphicly, iVerse, and Diamond Digital. The first release from this impressive lineup to hit stores will be PROPHET #21, debuting on January 18, just in time to kick off Image Comics’ 20th Anniversary year, and will be available for order in the November issue of Previews.
