Patton Oswalt, Rachael Leigh Cook Explore Superhero Noir in NO/ONE

Radiant Black has change into a smash hit for Image Comics, now enjoying host to an entire rainbow of Radiant heroes and villains. But its subsequent massive factor isn’t brilliant lights and massive superheroics—it’s a multimedia thriller about homicide in a world of heroes, and io9 has your first particulars.

The newest addition to the “Massive-verse” sequence is NO/ONE, a 10-part thriller penned by Radiant Black’s Kyle Higgins and former Detective Comics scribe Brian Buccellato, with artwork from Nightwing’s Geraldo Borges and colours from Mark Englert. Set in Pittsburgh through the wake of a gruesomely public spate of killings referred to as the Richard Roe murders, NO/ONE follows the tumultuous ramifications of the murders that has birthed a brand new political motion, copycat killings, and Pittsburgh’s personal vigilante hero: the titular NO/ONE, a brand new masked thriller promising to get justice towards the elite at any price.

Accompanying the brand new 10-issue comedian can be a month-to-month podcast sequence referred to as Who Is NO/ONE?, an in-universe true crime podcast with a superhero twist starring Rachael Leigh Cook and Patton Oswalt, as Pittsburg Ledger reporter Julia Paige explores the thriller behind the town’s new vigilante. Check out Cook in a brand new preview under:

The podcast will launch alongside problems with NO/ONE itself over 2023, and is produced and directed by Higgins for his Black Market Narrative collective. It will function each authentic artwork from Englert and music from Spectacular Spider-Man and Batman Beyond’s Emmy-winning composer, Kristopher Carter. “In 2011, I quit my job as a sound editor to write Batman, Nightwing, and Deathstroke for DC Comics. Now, 12 years later, I could not be more excited to return to old roots for my next series in the Massive-Verse,” Higgins stated in an announcement supplied to io9. “Brian, Geraldo and I—along with a host of wonderful collaborators—will be exploring the issues of our times across the mediums of our times, the news, political, and entertainment cycles that dominate so much of our lives. This is our ultra-contemporary take on an urban vigilante. Similar to Radiant Black, we’re excited to push the boundaries on what a modern superhero experience can be.”

“I’m excited for people to get a chance to dive into our cross-media comic experience because NO/ONE is not just a grounded superhero crime story. I’ve worked in comics for close to 30 years and I can safely say that this series is unlike anything I’ve been a part of before,” Buccellato added. “The world building, allegory, and multimedia experience bring a new level of immersion to not only superheroes but the very ideas of accountability and vigilantism within modern society.”

“I’ve been very lucky to have had the opportunity to work with my childhood heroes, characters like Batman and Wolverine, for almost 20 years. But now, I have a chance to build something from scratch and tell a modern, original story with Kyle and Brian,” Borges stated. “NO/ONE is both a true crime story, with a great mystery, as well as something much more. I’m pushing my art in a direction I’ve never done before in comics—I have no words to describe how excited I am for people to see what we’ve built.”

Click by to see a preview inside the primary concern of NO/ONE, because of hit comedian guide shops March 15, 2023, in addition to a few of Englert’s artwork created for Who Is NO/ONE?. And whereas followers wait, identical to with Radiant Black and the opposite “Massive-verse” books, they will observe alongside on Twitter for clues in regards to the new guide and podcast at @000no_one and @TheDropPL, in addition to by subscribing to the in-universe e-newsletter Edge News.

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