There’s a comic book for every taste out there these days. While Marvel and DC Comics might have cornered the market on gaudily-dressed heroes saving the day, the genre itself happens to be far broader than that. And that’s a gap that many publishers have picked up on. Take Image Comics for example, who publish everything from traditional hero adventures to more cerebral affair. They’ve got a busy 2015 coming up. Here’s what you can expect to be reading soon.
Announced at the fifth annual Image Expo in San Francisco (via IGN), Image unveiled 18 new titles to the masses. And a new attempt at reviving Spawn. Here’s the list of stuff to keep an eye out for:
Savior
By Todd McFarlane, Brian Holguin and Clayton Crain. A new series which asks the question “What if the most dangerous man on Earth was also the one trying to do the most good?”
Heaven
By James Robinson and Philip Tan. Robinson describes the series as “Mankind going to war with God in the future.”
Starve
By Brian Wood and Daniel Zezelj. Think actors are worshipped like modern-day gods? In Starve, chefs fill the role of real-life idols.
Black Road
By Brian Wood and Garry Brown. A spiritual successor to Vertigo’s Northlanders, Black Road is aiming for a mostly accurate retelling of Viking-era Norwegian history.
Island
By Brandon Graham, Emma Rios, Simon Roy and many more. An anthology magazine that will cover a wide variety of genres for a broader target market.
Tadaima
By Emi Lenox. An autobiographical graphic novel based on Lenox’s trip to Japan with her grandmother, featuring watercolor paintings.
Plutona
By Emi Lenox and Jeff Lemire. HEY KIDS, WANT TO SEE A DEAD SUPERHERO BODY?
A.D. (After Death)
By Jeff Lemire and Scott Snyder. What happens when you survive your own death? Find out in this graphic novel.
We Stand on Guard
By Brian K. Vaughn and Steve Skrice. 100 years into our future, a group of Canadian militia fighters battle an invasian force of American soldiers and their “giant f***ing robots.”
Paper Girls
By Brian K. Vaughn, Cliff Chiang and Matthew Wilson. A new series that follows the lives of four newspaper delivery girls after a night outside turns their lives upside down.
Monstress
By Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. In an alternate 1920s, gigantic monsters roam the world. Enter one lonely young refugee girl, who happens to share a psychic bond with these creatures.
Sons of the Devil
By Brian Buccellato and Toni Infante. A crowdfunded project that follows the exploits of the son of a religious cult leader.
Run Love Kill
By Eric Canete and Jonathan Tsuei. A new series which Canete describes as featuring “a lot of running, a lot of loving and a lot of killing.”
No Mercy
By Alex di Campi and Carla Speed McNeil. A group of teens embark on a bus trip, and become stranded. Obviously, something else goes wrong.
The Ludocrats
By Kieron Gillen, Jim Rossignol and David Lafuente. There’s a strange new world to explore in this series. And it aims to make said world even stranger.
Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl
By Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, and Matthew Wilson. The “final statement” in the Phonogram saga.
Kaptara
By Chip Zdarsky and Kagan McLeod. Imagine if The Island Of Dr Moreau was set on an alien planet that was populated by action figures, and you’d have the gist of Kaptara nailed down.
Revengeance
By Darwyn Cooke. Inspired in part by Mickey Spillane crime story, this three part mini-series sees Cooke make an Image Comics debut.
I Hate Fairyland
By Skottie Young. A combination of Looney Tunes and Dr Seuss, I Hate Fairyland tells the tale of an Alice in Wonderland-esque girl who has been trapped in “Fairyland” for 30 years and hasn’t aged a day.
Last Updated: January 12, 2015
Milesh Bhana
January 12, 2015 at 22:06
new Brian K Vaughn title… take my money now!!!
Quo Vadis?
January 13, 2015 at 07:29
The ONLY comic book I read and enjoyed, was something called “100 bullets – the counterfeit detective”. I never saw a follow up to that :'(
The D
January 13, 2015 at 07:54
Have you tried the entire 100 issue run of 100 bullets yet?
Quo Vadis?
January 13, 2015 at 07:59
There was this little bookshop in Melville that stocked them. Counterfeit detective was the last they stocked. Try as I might, I never saw an issue again. They refused to order them telling me “its not commercially viable to stock an item for just one or two readers”. In the whole of Joburg, I have yet to see another shop stock an issue :'(
Blood Emperor Trevor
January 13, 2015 at 08:29
The current Humble Book bundle is for a bunch of Image comics.
Geoff Murphy
January 13, 2015 at 09:10
Excited, but I prefer to wait for the graphic novel collection of these issues. I tend to do that with Image and Vertigo.