The Image Comics panel is officially underway! Creators are seated and fans eagerly await a new slew of announcements from Image!
Marjorie Liu celebrates ten years of Monstress
Marjorie knew even ten years ago that while the book started as fantasy, it was going to end up a Science Fiction store
Kieron Gillen talks The Power Fantasy
We get a preview of Issue #13 with a character named Gravity, spiralling out of the events of Issue #12. The events of Issue #13 will change the entire plot. We're not told much about issue #14.
Deniz Camp talks Assorted Crisis
Camp says wanted to tell this story for years but he doesn't feel his name held enough weight to get it done until now.
He set a goal for every issue of the book to use every aspect of the comic book medium at least once.
It's exhausting. Issue 8 will introduce a homeless Comic Book Colorist who literally falls into the gutter!
Chris Condon talks News From the Fallout
Condon is asked to explain why these preview pages have dinosaurs on them. He says the things happening on Earth have been happening for 65 Million years.
And Jeffery Allen Love's son loves Dinosaurs so he thought it'd be fun for him to draw them.
Condon is glad to see people reacting to the book the way they are.
Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen Reunite for Crowbound
Set in a near future where the Gulf Coast has been completely cut off from the rest of the United States by a massive, monolithic wall. The region has become dominated by a single, mysterious factory that employs nearly everyone who lives there.
The story follows a factory worker and mother whose daughter suddenly goes missing. In her desperate search, she strikes a deal with a supernatural entity to get her child back.
Lemire described the tone as “The Dark Tower meets Eraserhead.” Nguyen said he’s drawing heavy visual inspiration from Morbius and the Heavy Metal magazines of the 1980s.
While the pair initially wanted to avoid doing straight sci-fi again, they described Crow Crowbound as something closer to dark fantasy — though even they admit it’s hard to categorize. The series features extensive world-building, with the factory and the massive wall playing central roles in the mystery of this enclosed world.