Joe Casey and Paul Fry team up for an examination of ’90s superheroes in their new Image Comics series Blood Squad Seven this May.
Spinning out of Casey and Nathan Fox’s recent Dutch miniseries, the new series takes a look at Image-style heroes (in the current Image universe) diving deep into ’90s comic book themes and motifs with a speculator era team putting the boots and capes on again in the 21st century.
Casey calls Blood Squad Seven “…the biggest thing I’ve ever done in my twenty plus years working with Image Comics” and said “To play in this sandbox is the most fun I’ve ever had writing in a shared universe. This series is much more than a modern deconstruction of what it meant to be a superhero in the ’90s… Paul and I are building on that past to find our way into the future.”
Fry said “Diving into this project has been a creative roller coaster! Collaborating with the brilliant Joe Casey, we’re resurrecting the original Image vibe with a dash of edgy innovation.”
Variant covers for each issue of Blood Squad Seven will be provided by the likes of Chris Weston, Nick Pitarra, Jim Rugg, Chris Cross, Elizabeth Torque, Mike Hawthorne, Cory Walker, Ryan Quackenbush, Mirko Colak, Chris Sprouse, Dustin Nguyen, and many more.
Blood Squad Seven #1 will be available at your local comic comic book shop on May 22.
Check out Weston’s variant cover and a classic Image House Ad style promo art piece by Fry below.
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