Tom Morello is well known for his work with Rage Against the Machine. But we all have to put our differences aside sometime, and it seems Morello has decided to work amicably with the machine, co-writing Comixology’s (which is owned by Amazon) Leviathan Freedom with Marc Guggenheim.
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on a mission to unearth the stories of revolutionaries—the fighters, the visionaries, the ones history either buries or sanitizes beyond recognition,” said Morello via press release. “Their courage, defiance, and unwavering pursuit of justice, often in the face of seemingly impossible odds, have shaped the world, even if their names are too often left out of the narrative. Robert Smalls is one of those heroes. The idea of taking his revolutionary spirit and launching it into the cosmos feels like a perfect extension of his fight.”
Alongside artist Szymon Kudrański and letterer DC Hopkins, the five-issue series is, per PR, “a sci-fi reimagining of the legacy of Robert Smalls, a man born into slavery who seized his own freedom by commandeering a Confederate warship, sailing himself, his family, and others to liberation. In Leviathan Freedom, the galaxy is divided by civil war. And the profound human cost of conflict is felt not in the war rooms but by the Doldrums, the laborer caste essential for the war machine–until one man decides to stand against it.”
Added Guggenheim, “Leviathan Freedom comes as a reminder that true freedom is rarely given and very often must be taken.”
Leviathan Freedom #1 debuts this summer from Comixology. Check out the cover below.
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