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Jamie McKelvie and Matthew Wilson Launch Space Opera The Killing Horizon at Image in 2020

Published Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:24:04 -0500

Last updated Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:25:01 -0500

Image Comics has announced a new comic coming in Summer 2020 from Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, and Aditya Bidikar called The Killing Horizon, the first project McKelvie will write in a decade. The press release describes the concept for this space opera comic:

THE KILLING HORIZON takes place in the post-post-apocalyptic future. Far from Earth, a specialist in studying dead alien societies is embedded with a military unit to excavate a new find. She's done it before. It's good work and it's safe. She thinks it's just another job.

She's wrong.

Lost and alone, deep beneath the warped, skeletal spires of the millennia-dead city, she finds something powerful. Something unlike anything any human has ever known. Something that needs her to take it on a journey no living being has ever taken. Something that will make her a target for every side fighting a deadly war. It calls to her.

She answers.

It also contains a quote from McKelvie:

The canvas becomes vast and that's more than a little bit scary for me. Humans are humans, cars are cars, you can generally recognize that a tree is a tree. Those boundaries vanish when you're doing a story like this. With such a drastic change of setting, storytelling possibilities expand out in all sorts of different directions. There's a sequence I'm really excited about drawing that arose from a quandary: how do I approach this moment/image on the page? The story possibilities spill out into the "storytelling" possibilities and that's got me buzzing.

Expect the first issue in stores next Summer.