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Arcade Classic Centipede Slithers Into Comic Shops This Summer

Dynamite Entertainment continues its partnership with Atari®, to create a new comics series based on Centipede. It joins the recently released Swordquest as the latest title in the retrogaming series. Centipede #1 will be courtesy of writer Max Bemis (Worst X-Man Ever) and artist Eoin Marron (Sons of Anarchy: Redwood Original). Sci-Fi, horror, and action collide in a comic for fans of Aliens, The Thing, and Predator. When a terrifying creature from beyond the stars attacks his planet, protagonist Dale's journey begins, but he is not out to save his world; its already much too late for that. As the lone survivor, the only thing Dale wants is revenge.

Writer Max Bemis says,

I'm honored to be a part of bringing Centipede to life and to be allowed to do it in a somewhat less than conventional and dangerous way. Expect many mushrooms.

Artist Eoin Marron says,

My favorite aspect of working on Centipede: Game Over is being able to take the core concept and expand on it in a way the original couldn't at the time. That means developing a whole new world – one that's similar to ours but not quite – and tearing it all down again from the very first issue. So, if you like your post-apocalyptic, last-man-on-Earth scenarios to be dripping with a tongue-in-cheek self-awareness and dry sense of humor, you're going dig what we're doing on this.

The debut issue of Centipede features cover artwork features by Francesco Francavilla (Detective Comics), interior artist Eoin Marron, and Dan Schkade (Will Eisner's The Spirit). A special classic game art cover will also be available. There was also be a Classic Atari mini-comic incentive, a remastered reissue of the 32-page mini-comic (measuring 5" x 7.75") which was originally packaged with the Atari cartridge of its namesake. Centipede #1 will be solicited in the May 2017 Previews catalog and slated for release in July.

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