ICv2 reports production company Incendium are launching a publishing imprint called Opus Comics in May, and that their first titles will include “Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer,” a series based on Frazetta’s 1973 painting of the same name.
Written by animation veteran Mitch Iverson (DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, Voltron: Legendary Defender), with art by Stefano Martino (“Stranger Things”) and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado (“Ghostbusters”), the series is intended as the first in a wider line of titles inspired by Frazetta’s fantasy art. Plot details for the first issue remain vague, although a preview at CBR shows the mysterious black knight allying with a young sorceress.
This marks the third time Frazetta’s painting has been adapted into a comic, and the first since his death in 2010: the first came in 1995 at Glenn Danzig’s comic book company Verotik, and was written by Danzig himself with art by Simon Bisley, Liam Sharp, and Arthur Suydam, and covers by Frazetta. The second series, “Death Dealer: Shadows of Mirahan,” was created by writer/artist Nat Jones, co-writer Joshua Ortega, and colorist Jay Fotos at Image in 2006.
Incendium previously published several music-based comics through their official website, including “Disturbed: Dark Messiah,” which will also be a part of Opus’s first comic book store releases in May. For more on their debut titles, including the new Bill & Ted comic “Bill & Ted Roll the Dice,” head to ICv2. “Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer” #1 releases in comics shops on Wednesday, May 4.
