‘Minor Threats’ Launches Summer season 2022
From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, the showrunners behind the hit Hulu collection Marvel’s M.O.D.O.Okay., comes their first creator-owned collection Minor Threats. That includes celebrity artist Scott Hepburn (M.O.D.O.Okay.: Head Video games), with colours by Ian Herring, and letters by Nate Piekos, Minor Threats is a genre-bending crime drama about superheroes and villains and the final gasp of the colourful harmless days of the silver and bronze period of comics earlier than they’re dragged into the grit-soaked fashionable instances.
It’s arduous on the market for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses… however the little guys, the profession criminals. Those who placed on uniforms, knock over jewellery shops, and get tied to phone poles earlier than the hero swings off to face the precise massive dangerous. Occasions are robust for costumed crooks… and so they’re about to get a lot worse. The psychotic Stickman has executed the unthinkable and murdered Child Nightfall, sidekick to Twilight Metropolis’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight aside, turning it right into a terrifying police state–desperate to seize the Stickman and cease the Insomniac from “crossing that ultimate line” by which he could by no means come again from. Caught within the center are the small-time c-list villains, discovering it inconceivable to drag jobs and even stroll down the road with out being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to place collectively a ragtag crew of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves. Main her on a darkish journey into the prison underbelly she’s tried so arduous to flee.
“Each comedian ebook fan goals of making their very own universe,” mentioned collection co-writer Patton Oswalt. “This one is mine and Jordan’s. There’s enjoyable and hazard and violence and disappointment similar to in actual life, however with WAY brighter colours. I can’t wait to see you guys expertise it.”
Mentioned co-writer Jordan Blum, “That is our love letter to superhero comics and crime fiction. An underdog story of inept costumed criminals in over their heads, attempting to outlive an unforgiving metropolis crammed with caped gods, fallen kaiju, and site visitors inflicting time vortexes. On a regular basis crooks in a fantastical world attempting to get theirs.”
“Work like because of this I’ve all the time wished to be a comic book ebook artist,” added collection artist Scott Hepburn. “Patton, Jordan, and myself are in a three-way battle of one-ups-manship to show who loves this ebook extra.”
Minor Threats #1 (of 4) will probably be in comedian retailers August 24, 2022. It’s obtainable for pre-order at your native comedian store. Minor Threats could have an ordinary cowl by Scott Hepburn, a particular foil variant of the usual cowl, and a variant by Hellboy’s Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart!
“Minor Threats is a hardcore blast from the dangerous mind of Patton Oswalt. I like the full-on collision of his dirty, superhero underworld; with eye-poppingly attractive splash pages of artwork by Scott Hepburn. A naughty peek below the cape that you will devour like contraband.” –Edgar Wright (Director—Final Night time in Soho, Shaun of the Useless)
“Minor Threats is strictly what one would count on from Patton Oswalt—it’s clever, humorous, and twisted. I’m additionally anxious about him.”–Judd Apatow (Director—The 40-Yr-Previous Virgin, The King of Staten Island)
