TOOTH & CLAW, the exciting new series from bestselling writer Kurt
Busiek (Marvels, Astro City), artist Benjamin Dewey (I Was the
Cat, Tragedy Series), Eisner-winning colorist Jordie Bellaire (THE
MANHATTAN PROJECTS, PRETTY DEADLY), and letterer John Roshell of Comicraft that
was announced at Image Expo in July, will launch on November 5.
The highly
anticipated fantasy epic can best be described as Conan meets Kamandi
with a Game of Thrones-style storytelling experience. In TOOTH &
CLAW, a secret conclave of wizards brings a legendary champion forward through
time from the forgotten past to save the world—with disastrous consequences.
Featuring swords, sorcery, beast-wizards, gods, sprawling animal empires,
golems of radioactive decay, crystalline badlands, con women, ancient armories,
young love, mystery, blood and death and treachery and destiny… TOOTH &
CLAW is the sprawling, world-building fantasy series readers have been waiting
for.
First Look in Tooth & Claw #1
And while the emphasis is on adventure, exploration and a simmering conflict
that'll set the world's most revered hero against the gods themselves, the
adventurers won't be the only ones breaking new ground. TOOTH & CLAW is
Busiek's first Mature Readers series, and he's looking forward to the freedom
it offers.
In an exclusive interview with Comic Book Resources, Busiek said,
“When Cary Nord and I did Conan, and when Carlos Pacheco and I did Arrowsmith,
we kept bumping up against the mature-readers line, and several times had to
have the colorist obscure things to avoid nudity or gore or whatever. So on
this series, I went in knowing it was going to be a brutal world, where the
violence was important, and where I didn't want to tease nudity the way we had
to in Conan—I wanted to do the story the way it felt right to me, and if
that added up to mature readers, then so be it.
"So the horizon's wide
open," he added, "and we'll go wherever the story takes us. It's a
series I've been itching to write for years, and it's the book Ben Dewey was
born to draw, and we can't wait for it to hit the stands."
TOOTH &
CLAW #1 will be available on 11/5 as a double-sized 44 page issue with no ads
for only $2.99. It can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code SEP140540.
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