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The Great Beyond, Paradigms And Cerulean – Three Books From Nick Spencer At Image Expo – Updated

Published Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:32:08 -0600

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Mon, 23 Jan 2017 09:05:57 -0600

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David Dissanayake writes from Image Expo:

Next up: Nick Spencer. He's been busy.

Nick Spencer has three new books coming from Image.

The Great Beyond, with Morgan Jeske. "Where the size of your back account determines your after life. Its in the vein of Infinite Vacation, it'll be a sci-fi story about commercialism and the emptiness of our lives, and other uplifting stuff life that", he said.

He'll be working on Paradigms with Butch Guice. This is a book about warring clans of magic users and paladins but set in our modern world. It will have a similar political structure to Game of Thrones. "It's a mile a minute exploration of these clans subject to approval by their gods, as they try to determine their will."

He'll be working on Cerulean with Frazer Irving. "When you want to make a book with a world no one has ever seen before, you call Frazer Irving", he says. It's a book about the last survivors of earth, who land on a new planet three million years later and the initial months are a little rocky."

Updated from press release:

In 2014, Nick Spencer (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM) will team up with three different artists and launch three new thriller series sure to capture readers' imaginations.

A contemporary fantasy epic with a spy thriller aesthetic, PARADIGMS will showcase art by Butch Guice (Captain America, Superman) and explore a world that exists beyond, or more specifically behind, ours. In the shadows where magic is real, warring clans of sorcerers battle for power and the favor of their gods.

A sci-fi thriller of dead worlds, lost secrets, and hidden dangers, CERULEAN, with art by Frazer Irving (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM, Batman), follows the last survivors of the destruction of Earth as they struggle to rebuild civilization on a distant planet full of its own mysteries.

In the GREAT BEYOND, featuring art by Morgan Jeske (ZERO, SEX) a "post-life community" values the size of your bank account over morals and values—and your place in the hereafter is determined by it. But then polite society is rocked by the apparent suicide of one of its own.

"I knew I wanted 2014 to be a big year for my creator-owned work, but I never dreamed I'd get the opportunity to work with so many incredible artists! Collaborating with a legend like Butch, a visionary like Frazer, or an exciting new star like Morgan, it just makes you want to tell great stories with them and do the best work you possibly can. And it's always great to be doing it at Image, which has been like home to me the entirety of my career. I really believe in what we're doing here, and I can't wait for people to see what's next."

PARADIGMS, CERULEAN, and GREAT BEYOND are all new, ongoing science-fiction/fantasy series coming to Image Comics in 2014.