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Image Announces Line of 'Rumble' Variant Covers for Black History Month

Published Tue, 05 Feb 2019 17:30:22 -0600

Last updated Tue, 05 Feb 2019 20:26:56 -0600

Image Comics is celebrating Black History Month with a new line of variant covers for the series Rumble as envisioned by John Arcudi, kicking off the new story arc with Arcudi and David Rubín's Rumble #11. Artists on the variant covers will be Keith Pollard, Arvell Jones, Ron Wilson, Chris Brunner, and Sanford Greene.

In the press release, Arcudi explains:

There's such a rich history of African Americans working in comics, but it seems to me not enough people know about it. 'Okay, then maybe Image and I could help out with that a bit,' was my thinking when I came up with this tribute series of variants. And luckily, Keith Pollard, Arvell Jones, and Ron Wilson were willing to help us out with their tribute variants—homages, in fact, to their own vintage comics covers. We followed their great covers up with two homages to Black comics' pioneers Matt Baker and A.C. Hollingsworth, done by Chris Brunner and Sanford Greene respectively. Altogether, the series came out pretty great as a kind of visual history of African American cartoonists in comic books.

Here's what to expect inside the issue:

In Rumble #11, strange forces have unleashed the Four Scourge Knights of the Apocalypse, and somehow, Bobby LaRosa is mankind's only hope.

And here's the covers, which will run through Rumble #15 in August:

Rumble #11 Cover A (B&W by Rubín, Diamond Code: FEB190190) and Rumble #11 Cover B (pencils by Pollard, inks by Kevin Nowlan, colors by Dave Stewart, Diamond Code: FEB190191) will be available in comic shops on Wednesday, April 17. The final order cutoff deadline for comic shop retailers is Monday, March 25.

Rumble #12 Cover A (B&W by Rubín) and Rumble #12 Cover B (pencils by Jones, inks by Kevin Nowlan, colors by Dave Stewart) will be available in comic shops on Wednesday, May 22.

Rumble #13 Cover A (B&W by Rubín) and Rumble #13 Cover B (pencils by Wilson, inks by Bill Sienkiewicz, colors by Dave Stewart) will be available in comic shops in June.