About a month ago, Ales Kot teased on his blog a new Image book, but we couldn’t say what it was. Now, with the information popping up in the solicits for July, it looks like it is time to share: coming in July from Image is a new book that puts Ales Kot with one of the hardest working artists in the biz Riley Rossmo for an over-sized one-shot comic a la “Cloudfall” about school shootings, entitled “Wild Children.”
And hey, wouldn’t you know it, but along with the solicit information we posted earlier, we’ve also got a few preview pages to show you! Aren’t you lucky?
We don’t know too much about it, but what we know makes it sound great. While the subject matter is dark and twisted (school shootings mixed with “1984”-esque paranoia), expectations are pretty high for this one. The book will assumedly touch a nerve with some people, but given that Riley Rossmo’s on art you can assuredly expect a great looking book with this one.
Plus, this book — like “Debris” — sees Rossmo really expanding his style to work closer at a cross between a clean line style and his usual controlled chaos. Between “Green Wake,” “Rebel Blood” and “Debris”, Rossmo is really expanding his style, and as this comes out before Riley’s next ongoing (“Bedlam” with Nick Spencer), one could assume this will be another great entry into Rossmo’s resume.
The solicit information is as follows:
Guns. Acid. Cameras. School.
The themes behind the controversial Hellblazer: “Shoot” by WARREN ELLIS and PHIL JIMENEZ merge with the attitude of the GRANT MORRISON and PHILIP BOND masterpiece of teenage revolt, Kill Your Boyfriend, delivering a story of magic, passion and disinformation.
WILD CHILDREN: A different type of education.
64 pages for a $10 book described as a cross between ‘Shoot’ and “Kill Your Boyfriend?” Sounds like a pretty good deal, if you ask us.
Take a look behind the cut for four preview pages from the upcoming release.
