BRIAN wood teams WITH ALEX COX TO handle JOHN CARTER OF MARS

Media release — As the doors are set to available to this year’s new York Comic-Con, Dynamite enjoyment proudly announces one more superstar writer contributing to the excellent tradition of the company’s line of titles based around Edgar Rice Burroughs’ library of characters. Brian wood (DMZ, The Massive, Briggs Land) will lend his storytelling skill together with Alex Cox to the Warlord of Mars himself, John Carter.
Brian wood is one of the most respected writers in contemporary comics, whose work is commonly applauded for its political undertones as well as dystopian world-building, with several Eisner nominations as well as new York Times Bestselling series. His a lot of recent original series, Briggs Land, is already one of 2016’s a lot of talked-about launches, as well as is currently in advancement for television with AMC.

Alex Cox is a comic book market essential making his composing debut, having lent creative talents to different jobs throughout the years as well as serving as the Comic book legal defense Fund’s deputy Director.

“Taking on a traditional literary icon like John Carter is no little thing, as well as working with Alex Cox to discover a direction that both honors the past as well as looks into the future has been a excellent challenge, one that we both are enjoying immensely,” states Brian Wood.

“The John Carter series is one of the all-time excellent sci-fi/fantasy epics, as well as having the chance to play in that sandbox is just awesome. Brian’s idea is unlike any type of John Carter story to date, however with a great deal of reverence for the world that Burroughs built,” states co-writer Alex Cox. “Beyond that, we’re drawing on whatever from Jodorowsky to Jesse Marsh to John Wayne to make this story as great as possible. I believe people are going to like it — old institution superfans, as well as likewise people who have no concept what a Rykor is.”

“We have wished to bring Brian wood to Dynamite for rather a long time now, as well as he’s even written our extremely own Vampirella before she discovered her house here,” states Dynamite CEO as well as publisher, Nick Barrucci. “We had been waiting to discover the best book for him to take on, as well as when all of us arrived on John Carter, we understood it was going to be well worth the wait! Brian working with Alex Cox to co-write has assisted make the story grander still. fans are going to like this series!”

“We’re taking John Carter to odd new places, which is no simple accomplishment thinking about the guy teleports himself to Mars to online a swashbuckler’s life, however Brian wood has incredible things organized for Carter, Dejah, as well as the rest as we venture far into Carter’s future for a tale unlike any type of other,” states Joseph Rybandt, Editorial director for Dynamite Entertainment.

Look for additionally details on art team as well as release date for this upcoming series in the coming months, as well as see dynamite.com for an substantial collection of previous John Carter stories.

About Dynamite Entertainment:

Dynamite was established in 2004 as well as is house to a number of very popular comic book titles as well as properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Red Sonja, Warlord of Mars, Bionic Man, A game of Thrones, as well as more. Dynamite has as well as controls an substantial library with over 3,000 characters (which includes the Harris Comics as well as Chaos Comics properties), such as Vampirella, Pantha, Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, as well as Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. In addition to their critically-acclaimed titles as well as bestselling comics, Dynamite works with a few of the most high profile creators in comics as well as entertainment, including Kevin Smith, Alex Ross, Neil Gaiman, Andy Diggle, John Cassaday, Garth Ennis, Jae Lee, Marc Guggenheim, Mike Carey, Jim Krueger, Greg Pak, Brett Matthews, Matt Wagner, Gail Simone, Steve Niles, James Robinson, as well as a hold of up-and-coming new talent. Dynamite is consistently placed in the upper tiers of comic book publishers as well as a number of of their titles – including Alex Ross as well as Jim Krueger’s job Superpowers – have debuted in the top ten listings created by diamond Comics Distributors. In 2005, diamond awarded the business a GEM award for finest new publisher as well as one more GEM in 2006 for Comics publisher of the Year (under 5%) as well as once again in 2011. The business has likewise been nominated for as well as won a number of market awards, including the prestigious Harvey as well as Eisner Awards.

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