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shove your rockets into appurtenance and explode into the outer limits ! Heavy Metal has announce the arrival ofDark Wing , a raw space odyssey coming to the pageboy ofHeavy Metal Magazine # 300 . Set to be serialized in graphic physical body in next return and elaborated upon in a coming novel serial publication known as the " Beyond Kuiper Expanded Universe , " the comic strip will be write by none other than Heavy Metal CEO Matt Medney , and feature a journey of scriptural proportions as a lost people look for to detect a desirable new solar system aboard their planet which has been convert into a monolithic spaceship , The Dark Wing after beingtempest tossed across the galaxy .
Since undergoing a monumental personnel faulting in the last year , Heavy Metal Publishing has beenquietly grow new and hard - hittingstories in an effort torevamp their steel and reestablishthemselves as the “ bleeding edge of horror , science fictionand fantasy . ” To that destruction , Mendey ’s novel endeavor will be the first proper refreshing serial publication published by Heavy Metal , with tie-in - in landing strip done in graphic sort to be serialize inHeavy Metal Magazinebeginning in issue # 300 , on sales event in August . The first cartoon strip takes place nearly 4000 years before the independent story is set to begin , and have-to doe with the architect of the monumental substructure conversion the satellite Tiberius undergoes to become the Dark Wing , Dr. Simon Fredericks .
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Drawn by creative person German Ponce and colored by Protobunker , this preliminary installment will serve as a prequel to the larger heroic poem chronicling the adventure of Captain Benedict Gunn , drawing card of the planet - turned - spaceship Dark Wing which house the Quail people , a human - like coinage separated from their sustainable solar scheme by a rogue black hole . lay out on a satellite of castaways in hunt of a new home , this narrative of adventure should provide an action - packed yet philosophical romp rooter of sci - fi such asThe ExpanseandStar Trekmight find conversant , Medney said in a press release . The CEO went on to say regarding his larger idea behind the conception that he intended to follow a more cerebral road with this report , perchance more in line with the honest-to-god masters of science fable such as Ray Bradbury or Robert Heinlein :
The [ Beyond Kuiper Expanded Universe ] created by myself and John Connelly is deeply rooted in hard science and fantastical concepts . The Dark Wing terrestrial ship is more fringe - scientific discipline ; however , the conceptual ideas are rooted in engineering and push transfer . I am excited for mass to plunk into the philosophic concepts and escapade that Dark Wing has to offer .
Though the strip is localize to debut in serialise form in the pagesHeavy Metal Magazine , those who miss out on all the magazines need not fear , becauseDark Wingwill also be hoard into a single issue comic once the initial publication of the series has execute its course . This will be part of Heavy Metal ’s young Elements initiative , which will see each serialise taradiddle set up and issue in a standalone issue with Modern art and extra background traditional knowledge .
Heavy Metal has pledged a new esthetic ethos in move forwards with their brand , one with poignant story , brilliant art and relatable , character - driven dramatic play , all whilepushing the boundariesof speculative fable like sci - fi . The first of a continuing larger-than-life set in adistant , alien world , Dark Wingpromises to embark on delivering on this assurance , and at the penitentiary of the Chief Executive Officer , no less . Alien though the universe may be to our own , there is a sense that the publishing house is at its core seek to deliver human report even amidst their most outlandish and exotic construct , and this appear to be an former step in that focal point .
Heavy Metal Magazine#300goes on cut-rate sale August 19th .
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