Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum Launch Minor Threats at Darkish Horse

M.O.D.O.Okay. showrunners Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum might have had their present canceled after one season, however that simply frees them as much as transfer from the unsavory world of tv to the profitable and foil-embossed realm of creator-owned comics. Oswalt and Blum are teaming with Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring, and Nate Piekos for Minor Threats, describe as “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.” The comedian is coming to Darkish Horse in April and will likely be revealed as a four-issue mini-series.

From the press launch:

It is onerous 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 large unhealthy. Occasions are robust for costumed crooks… and so they’re about to get a lot worse. The psychotic Stickman has carried out 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–determined to seize the Stickman and cease the Insomniac from “crossing that ultimate line” through which he might by no means come again from. Caught within the center are the small-time c-list villains, discovering it unattainable 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 felony underbelly she’s tried so onerous to flee.

Oswalt says:

Each comedian ebook fan goals of making their very own universe. This one is mine and Jordan’s. There’s enjoyable and hazard and violence and unhappiness similar to in actual life, however with WAY brighter colours. I can not wait to see you guys expertise it.

Blum provides:

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 full of caped gods, fallen kaiju, and visitors inflicting time vortexes. On a regular basis crooks in a fantastical world attempting to get theirs.

And Hepburn says:

Work like for this reason I’ve at all times needed to be a comic book ebook artist. Patton, Jordan, and myself are in a three-way battle of one-ups-manship to show who loves this ebook extra.

Search for the primary subject of Minor Threats in shops August twenty fourth with a foil variant by Mike Mignola and DaveStewart. Wait, what? Rattling, we must always have led with that!