The New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award winning comics titan Robert Kirkman (Oblivion Song, The Walking Dead) is teaming with Eisner winning artist Chris Samnee (Daredevil), Eisner Award winning colorist Matt Wilson (Paper Girls, The Wicked + The Divine), and letterer Rus Wooton (The Walking Dead), to bring fans an all-new, full color, action-packed ongoing series—Fire Power—which will launch from Image/Skybound in May 2020.
“Getting to create a whole new world with its own mythology and rules is always the highlight of my life. Getting to do that with Chris Samnee is definitely a high water mark in this dusty old career of mine,” said Kirkman. “With a massive cast of characters populating this sprawling globe-spanning epic Chris has proven more than adept at handling anything I’ve thrown at him in the time we’ve been toiling away on this series in secret. Kung Fu, Fireballs, Chris Samnee, crazy action, Chris Samnee, Chris Samnee. What more could I say to get you excited about this book?”
This is the first new project from Kirkman since the surprise conclusion to his pop culture phenomenon The Walking Dead. Fire Power will more than fill a walker-sized hole in your monthly pull list. This new series also marks Samnee’s return to comics after wrapping up his bestselling run on Captain America that concluded in early 2018.
Owen Johnson’s journey to China to learn about his birth parents eventually leads him to a mysterious Shaolin Temple. The students there study to rediscover the Fire Power, the lost art of throwing fireballs. A power they claim will be needed soon to save the world. Will Owen Johnson be the first person in a thousand years to wield the Fire Power?
It may end up being a great book, but Kirkman speculation will never again sneak up on anyone. Buy it to enjoy the story and nothing more.
Agree…people should not try to spec on the next great Kirkman story…they need to be spec’ing on the next Kirkman….
Reading the preview without thinking about Kirkman’s name attached to it.. meh. I wouldn’t buy this book. It lost me on the solicitation before reading it.
Already saw these ten pages thirty years ago the first time Luke Skywalker met Yoda. And Street Fighter already has multiple origin stories. Don’t need to see the unofficial “How Ryu learned the hadouken” again.
I just threw up a little reading just the solicitation. Definitely not for me. I really feel strongly Kirkmans way, way overrated.