Yesterday on his blog, Terry Moore announced that his new series post-Echo (ending with #30 in April) will be Rachel Rising. The comic is set to be printed on his own Abstract Studio label this July, and is Moore’s first overtly horror series.
While there is no proper solicit (yet), Moore tid teases the following as the premise of the book:
Rachel Beck wakes on damp, soft dirt. Sitting up, she sees a foot sticking up from the ground in front of her. She is sitting on somebody. She is sitting on a shallow grave. Rolling onto her knees she claws the dirt away. It is the body of a woman much like her. The clothes are like hers. The face… it’s her. Dead.
Furthermore, over at CBR Moore elaborated, saying “The stuff that’s coming and the scenes in my head are like…I get really excited when I have a scene in my head that I haven’t seen on TV or in a movie, and I have a bunch of those for this. It’s like the time that Katchoo set a grave on fire for her stepfather who had raped her. I had never seen that scene anywhere in media before, and I was so excited to think of it and draw it. I have several of those in mind for the first three issues of ‘Rachel Rising.’ And the title is very apropos of all that.”
We all know Moore by now, as the celebrated creator behind one of the biggest indie comics of all time (Strangers In Paradise) and most recently a rather hip sci-fi based series (Echo). With Moore tackling horror for the first time, the results should be fairly interesting to see what comes with this series.
We don’t have any art for the book yet, so enjoy this picture of a Supergirl/Batgirl commission from his blog. In the mean time, check out CBR for the full interview with Moore.
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