Originally announced as a six-issue limited series, DC Comics‘s The Deadman will now extend its afterlife to 12 issues.
“The response to our Deadman story has been absolutely spirit-lifting,” said writer W. Maxwell Prince via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “We’re having so much fun giving new life to Boston Brand and his purgatorial world…and we’re not ready to give up the ghost just yet. Here’s to 6 more issues of monsters, mantras, and mystic math!”
Featuring art by Martín Morazzo, colors from Chris O’Halloran, and letters by Good Ol’ Neon, The Deadman has reinvented the character of Boston Brand, a sort-of ghost able to inhabit human bodies, with the team’s now iconic inventiveness from titles like Ice Cream Man at Image Comics and Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum for DC.
In particular, this week’s third issue (on stands today) is wild, as Boston travels through the nine circles of Hell to meet with Lucifer, and explains that every circle is represented differently. So on the page, that executes in everything from silhouette shadow play to full pages of olde-timey text. It’s all unlike anything else on comic book stands, and personally I cannot wait to see how this team continues to innovate with six more issues (nine to be released) to tell their story.
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