Spiral City may be down, but it’s not out!
The next series in the Black Hammer universe, Black Hammer: Spiral City, highlights a new group of heroes after the Second Cataclysm by Jeff Lemire and Teddy Kristiansen.
The seven-issue Dark Horse Comics series picks up directly after The End, and finds Spiral City and pretty bad shape, with an increase in anti-superhuman sentiment, a terrible candidate for Mayor in the form of Malcolm Gold, and the closing of Spiral Asylum.
Lemire said “Teaming with one of my all-time favorite artists, Teddy Kristensen, I knew this book needed to be special. It’s a brand-new era for the Black Hammer Universe. New stories, new characters, and a whole new direction. Black Hammer: The End was the culmination of the last eight years of storytelling, and now Black Hammer: Spiral City is truly a new beginning. It’s both a great jumping on point for curious readers, and a bold new direction for long time fans.”
Kristiansen added, “My first introduction to Jeff’s work was The Underwater Welder and I immediately started reading his other books. Suddenly he is doing Black Hammer with an old comic world friend, Dean Ormston, and I could see he has the same passion and love for superhero comics as I have and a big passion for playing with storytelling, so all my boxes were ticked. Then, out of the blue comes a PM on Instagram asking me if I want to do a project together, which became this book. I hope readers will find the same passion and joy in the book as I had doing it with Jeff.”
Black Hammer: Spiral City #1 arrives in comic shops on November 13. The first issue comes with a main cover by Kristiansen and three variant covers by Mike Mignola, Matt Wagner, and Duncan Fegredo.
Check out all of the covers below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your Black Hammer news.
