Rosenberg and Boss’ New Image Comic Journeys Through the Apocalypse

What’s a very powerful factor within the post-apocalypse? Your instruments to outlive, the belief community of pals, household, and allies you’ve made alongside the best way? Or is it… your file assortment? The subsequent comedian collection from Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss, collectively once more on the planet of comics since their breakout Black Mask collection 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank, is dying to search out out.

io9’s received an unique first have a look at What’s the Furthest Place From Here?, Rosenberg and Boss’ new collection collectively at Image Comics, that includes lettering from Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Beginning later this yr, the collection follows a younger woman named Sid, one of many few baby survivors of an apocalyptic occasion that has left human society in ruins. But when Sid units out alone to enterprise past the protection present in these ruins, the gang she left behind heads out on a quest to carry her residence in a narrative that suffuses the themes of survival and household with a science-fictional, musical twist.

“What’s The Furthest Place From Here? is a book Tyler and I have been working on in one form or another since before we even finished 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank,” Rosenberg instructed io9 in a offered assertion. “We wanted to push ourselves to do a lot of things we didn’t do in that book. We wanted to take the time to build a big science fiction world, tell an epic fantasy adventure, dabble in horror and mystery, and really try to make something on a scale that could only be done in an ongoing comic series and really only done at Image Comics. It’s still a deeply personal, character-driven story with all the humor and heart that readers expect from both of us. I guess that’s the pretentious way of saying we’re taking risks and making something very new to us but our fans and new readers will still like it.”

The venture has been within the works for years, teased again in 2018 at Image Expo. “We wanted to make this big playground for our characters to go and tell their stories in. Part of that was building a Silmarillion sized knowledge of this place so we knew what the rules are and why the rules are. Even if we don’t always share it in the book, we have the answers to any questions we might ask ourselves down the line,” Boss added in his personal assertion of the lengthy highway to the discharge of What’s the Furthest Place From Here?. “But ultimately we’re telling a story about growing up and outgrowing the things you thought you’d always care about, and seeing the world change and trying to figure out if that will change you. It’s also about found families and the fear of becoming your parents. Only we’re doing it in this big post-apocalyptic way. It’s our attempt at John Hughes and J.D. Salinger by way of George Miller and Walter Hill.”

The first situation of What’s the Furthest Place From Here? will launch in November as a $5, triple-sized debut, however to proceed on the collection’ music themes, a deluxe version of the difficulty may even be out there for $15, which incorporates the comedian and a vinyl single new music impressed by the collection from Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil’s Blake Schwarzenbach, and Joyce Manor. Only out there at comedian ebook shops, these particular editions shall be out there with new music for each situation of the collection from new creatives, introduced alongside every situation’s pre-order window.

What’s the Furthest Place From Here? Is an all-new collection kicking off with a triple-sized first situation this November. There may even be a “deluxe” model that comes with an unique vinyl single that includes all-new music from Blake Schwarzenbach of Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil, and Joyce Manor. These singles shall be pressed in restricted portions, with comedian retailers to be the unique supply for securing a duplicate, and every subsequent issue may even have a deluxe possibility with a brand new and unique accompanying single, with the lineup to be introduced alongside the preorder window.

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