BILL WILLINGHAM, BESTSELLING writer OF FABLES, presents LEGENDERRY: A STEAMPUNK experience event series FROM DYNAMITE
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Legenderry #1 cover by Joe Benitez
October 9th, 2014, Mt. Laurel, NJ – new York Comic-Con Announcement: Dynamite proudly announces Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure, a seven-issue monthly crossover event featuring traditional characters of comics as well as film as reimagined by bestselling writer expense Willingham (Fables). featuring interior artwork by Sergio Fernandez Davila, Legenderry introduces in January featuring covers by celebrated steampunk artist Joe Benitez (Lady Mechanika).
Vampirella
“This is a story where I get to have my cake as well as eat it too,” states expense Willingham. “I get to work with a few of my preferred characters from comic books, prose, as well as film, however likewise get to produce brand new versions of each one of them. That way, I don’t have to make a single one of them fit in with all of the past continuity of those characters. I get the very best of both situations. Plus, I built an entire new world in which to location those characters. World-building is one of the very best parts of experience storytelling. Legenderry is the name of the world, as well as it is in truth a world peopled with a few of the biggest legends of experience fiction. This is my first-ever foray into the Steampunk genre, so that’s one more new experience I get to go on as a writer.”
Captain Victory
Legenderry: A Steampunk experience is, as expense Willingham describes it, “a world in which the excellent heroes of our stories online in the flesh.” The story begins in a large Victorian-style metropolis, a city protected by Vampirella, the eco-friendly Hornet, as well as Kato. After a scarlet-clad lady of secret rushes into a bar pursued by assassins, the resulting chaos spreads to other reimagined landscapes ripped from traditional comic books, literature, as well as television, including the wild jungles of The Phantom, Flash Gordon’s futuristic haven of Landing, aerial combat alongside Captain Victory, as well as more. The action ultimately leads to the Monstrous Lands, an unruly area both lawless as well as sinister.
Green Hornet
An event series four years in the making, Legenderry proves the old adage that “good things come to those who wait.” Willingham mined the rich Dynamite world for the perfect characters to populate the vast, reimagined landscape of Legenderry. In recent months, Willingham has personally overseen the visual advancement of the series, courtesy of styles by artist Johnny D., whose artwork has graced numerous Dynamite covers as well as most recently, the total Vampirella Strikes comic book series. “It was an honor to take some truly ageless characters as well as make them fit into the steampunk world,” states Johnny D. “They all have a excellent unique base to go off, so it has been a great deal of fun working on the designs. I’ve worked with many of these characters before as well as look ahead to the series.”
Red Sonja
The cast of Legenderry characters modifications each issue, as Willingham as well as Davila steer the action from one dazzling place to the next. featured characters include Steve Austin of The six Million dollar Man, the traditional pulp duo of eco-friendly Hornet as well as Kato, legendary masked adventurer Zorro, the Dynamite mainstay Vampirella, the beloved superheroes Silver star as well as Captain success produced by Jack Kirby, Flash Gordon as well as The Phantom from King features Syndicate, as well as finally, the swords-and-sorcery icon Red Sonja.
Zorro
“I’ve personally understood expense Willingham for over three decades, as well as regard him as one of the most talented, hardworking, as well as ingenious creators in our industry,” states Nick Barrucci, CEO as well as publisher of Dynamite. “I’ve been speaking with him since 2009 about projects, however between his hectic routine as well as the explosive success of Fables as well as Fairest, we both wanted to wait up until we might provide the job the full interest it deserves. as well as expense wouldn’t want to give anything less than 100% of his attention! As time progressed, our many discussions have led to a groundbreaking event, something that will shake up exactly how people view our incredible library of characters. expense wanted to work in a world without the constraints of continuity, where he might paint broad strokes on a fresh canvas. When the creativity as well as aesthetics of Steampunk science-fiction ended up being our focus, well — the ideas just began to flow from his mind onto the page. It’s my pleasure, both personal as well as professional, to welcome expense Willingham to the Dynamite fold, as well as to welcome everybody with an adventurous spirit to the whimsical world of Legenderry.”
Legenderry #1cover by Johnny D.
Joseph Rybandt, senior Editor of Dynamite, says, “As a longtime fan of Bill’s work, it was such a surprise that Nick Barrucci, our CEO as well as Publisher, had been able to work out a offer to not only produce this character crossover, however to include a few of our biggest as well as finest company-owned as well as licensed characters. This is THE kick-off event for comics in 2014. Be there!”
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