We’ve had the opportunity to fawn over Phil Noto’s “Trigger Girl 6” art (to be featured in “Creator Owned Heroes”), but we have yet to get a chance to do the same for Kevin Mellon’s “American Muscle” artowrk.
Until today, that is. As part of our continued 3rd birthday/relaunch celebration, we are proud to bring you a preview of Steve Niles and Mellon’s “American Muscle,” straight from Image Comics! Telling the post-apocalyptic tale of a race across America, “American Muscle” stars a group of rebels in search of a fabled paradise on the remains of the West Coast. With Niles and Mellon at the drivers seat (pun intended), you know it’s going to be a damn good ride (pun also intended).
Take a look at three brand new pages from “American Muscle” below, and be on the lookout for even more about “Creator Owned Heroes” here on Multiversity Comics soon.
In addition to the preview, you can find the Image Comics press release about “Creator Owned Heroes” below.
Image Press Release
“American Muscle”: a race against nothing across a post-apocalyptic America. “Triggergirl 6”: the perfect assassin – except for her conscience. These are the first two titles showcased in the new Image Comics anthology, CREATOR OWNED HEROES, edited by Jimmy Palmiotti.
“Creator-owned” isn’t just a business model – it’s also a publishing philosophy that focuses on creators of comics, who retain the ownership and all the rights to their creations, rather than on “properties” that are corporate property. CREATOR OWNED HEROES was created not only as a vehicle for creators’ creativity but emphasize the importance of this model to the reading public.
“With Creator Owned Heroes we wanted to not only have a place to introduce new ideas and concepts, but to give the reader a place to come each and every month to interact and explore the world around us,” said Palmiotti. “This is a personal project that will continue to grow with the support of our readers and I for one am looking forward to its evolution. ”
In “American Muscle,” written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) with Kevin Mellon (HEART) on art duties, a group of rebels break off from the last stronghold of human civilization in search of a fabled paradise on what used to be the West coast of the United States. What they find, however, is something much different…
“Triggergirl 6,” by Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex, QUEEN CRAB), Justin Gray (Power Girl, Jonah Hex) on the writing side and art by Phil Noto (Avengers: The Origin, THE INFINITE HORIZON) offers a very different kind of future, one where a woman designed to be a perfect killer can be created in a tank and then let loose on the world.
The first issue of the monthly anthology also includes interviews with comics and literature superstar Neil Gaiman and with cosplaying twins Juli and Alex Abene, who created a Triggergirl costume based on an incentive cover of the first issue.
CREATOR OWNED HEROES #1 is a 40-page, full-color comic book for $3.99. It is available now for pre-order from the April issue of Previews (cover A: APR120420, cover B: APR120421, cover C: APR120422) and will be in stores on June 6.
ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
