The Power Fantasy Is Ready to Usher in a New Age of Superpowers

Most of the clip erstwhile we arsenic comic publication nerds deliberation astir “superpowers,” we’re reasoning astir its explanation successful presumption of a character’s powerset—flight, superspeed, optic blasts, pyrokinesis, and truthful on. We don’t usually deliberation astir the word successful its actual, geopolitical sense: a sovereign authorities oregon supranational entity that has the capableness to single-handedly interaction alteration and project that power connected a planetary scale. The Power Fantasy wants to mash those 2 definitions together, to instantly compelling effect.

Coming this August from Image Comics, The Power Fantasy—the adjacent team-up from superstar writer Kieron Gillen (Immortal X-Men, The Wicked + The Divine, DIE, and many, galore more) and likewise superstar creator Caspar Wijngaard (Home Sick Pilots, All Against All, Detective Comics, and many, galore more) imagines a satellite wherever conscionable six radical person superpowers: abilities truthful overwhelmingly almighty that the information of the satellite depends connected them ne'er coming to blows with each other. But portion Image has amusement a fewer teases and covers for the upcoming series, overmuch is inactive chartless astir the book—and immoderate of what we do cognize is changing, similar this marque caller main screen for the debut contented by Wijngaard, making its caller debut present connected io9.

© Caspar Wijngaard/Image Comics

The caller main screen contrasts with the much intimate, possibly much quality screen by Wijngaard that was previously solicited by Image, trading a immense consciousness of standard of what it truly means successful The Power Fantasy‘s satellite erstwhile these superpowered beings look disconnected with each other. “We loved our archetypal cover, but realized that portion it showed disconnected our characters, it didn’t really showcase the code oregon sheer standard of the book. The thrill is the question betwixt the thrill of realistic radical with intolerable abilities acting astatine a petrifying scale. Caspar’s caller screen sells that perfectly,” Kieron Gillen told io9 successful a connection implicit email. Check retired a fewer much covers for the bid below: inducement covers for The Power Fantasy #1 by Stephanie Hans, Tula Lotay, and Rian Hughes, with the second besides providing a variant screen for contented 2!

“Getting impermanent artists to articulation america is conscionable a amusive portion of the doing a publication similar this—seeing our formed done the prism of our talented friends,” Gillen continued. “Tula’s conscionable an adept astatine this, and I adore her stuff. Also, erstwhile your decorator is Rian Hughes, doing a acceptable of variants which showcase the his iconic skills and usage a fancy pantone ink to truly marque it pop… well, if you person the choice, wherefore wouldn’t you?”

The Power Fantasy #1 is acceptable to deed shelves August 7.

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