This January, a project 15 years in the making is coming to Image Comics. Gary Whitta and Darick Robertson are teaming up to unleash Oliver, a post-apocalyptic twist on….well, Oliver Twist. As you can imagine with this creative team, nothing is what you expect it to be. Whitta and Robertson were kind enough to give…
Whitta And Robertson’s OLIVER Coming In January
PORTLAND, OR, 10/16/2018 — Award-winning screenwriter Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Book Of Eli) teams with celebrated artist Darick Robertson (HAPPY!, Transmetropolitan, The Boys) for the highly anticipated new dystopian series OLIVER—coming this January from Image Comics. “OLIVER has been more than 15 years in the making, so it’s a particular thrill to finally…
Review: ARMSTRONG AND THE VAULT OF SPIRITS #1
ARMSTRONG AND THE VAULT OF SPIRITS #1 Written by Fred Van Lente Art by Cafu, Darick Robertson, Andrew Dalhouse Diego Rodriguez, Dave Sharpe Edited by Benjamin Peterson, Warren Simons Published by Valiant Entertainment Release Date: February 7, 2018 An all-star cast of Valiant characters joins Armstrong in story for an annual reflection that could very…
Preview: HARBINGER RENEGADE #8
HARBINGER RENEGADE #8 Written by RAFER ROBERTS Art by DARICK ROBERTSON, TOM PALMER, DIEGO RODRIGUEZ Cover A by DARICK ROBERTSON (AUG172128) Cover B by BALDEMAR RIVAS (AUG172129) Cover C by KANO (AUG172130) Variant Cover by JEFFREY VEREGGE (AUG172131) B&W Sketch Variant by DARICK ROBERTSON (AUG172132) Massacred! As “MASSACRE” continues to tear the Harbinger Renegades apart,…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #7-9
My momma was raised in the era when clean water was only served to the fairer skin. – Kanye West, New Slaves After a brief hiatus, we return to our regular scheduled programming. When we last saw Spider, he was raging against religion and the cynical exploitation of it for money and power. The following…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #6
“We often believe with criminal superficiality that to educate the masses politically is to deliver a long political harangue from time to time.” – Frantz Fanon Spider Jerusalem’s biggest flaw, the open wound through which pathos positively oozes out of him, is that he’s never wrong. He may occasionally be incorrect or make a miscalculation,…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #5
I want to talk about […] what it’s going to feel like to live through the next ten years. It does not feel like progress. However, it does not feel like conservatism either. There’s neither progress nor conservatism, because there’s nothing left to conserve and no direction in which to progress. – Bruce Sterling, “Reboot…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #4
With the riot fading into the distance for the time being, we get the first solid look at what Spider thinks journalism is for and The Beast enters stage right. While the first couple issues were dense with ideas about the future to analyze, the third issue — which also serves as the opening issue…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #3
Something special is happening in Austin tonight: http://t.co/RpbnCbO6zw #StandWithWendy — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) June 26, 2013 In possibly the most disturbingly specific bit of prescience Transmetropolitan can offer, Spider, via Ellis and Robertson, invents the now commonplace act of live tweeting a political crisis. Last week, I put forward the idea that the second issue…
TRANSMET: Human Reaction and Criminal Enterprise #2
Once re-established in The City, Spider finds his first story opportunity in Fred Christ, a former record producer who’s found a new purpose in life by leading a cult of people turning themselves into aliens. There probably isn’t another single issue that sums up the hit or miss nature of Transmetropolitan’s political allegory, which has…
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