BOOM! Box Kicks off with Ryan North’s The Midas Flesh

Award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios has announced the December debut of Ryan North’s first original print comic book series The Midas Flesh, marking the launch of the publisher’s new imprint, BOOM! Box.

Featuring art by North’s Adventure Time comic partners, Shelli Paroline and Braden LambThe Midas Flesh is the first title to come out under BOOM! Box, a line of books aimed to allow some of the most creative talents in comics to let loose with their wildest ideas. To highlight the series and imprint launch, the inaugural issue will contain extra pages of story and art.The Midas Flesh #1 will ship with a main cover by John Keogh and variant covers by Emily Partridge, and Noelle Stevenson. The first issue will also feature the first original “Writer’s Edition” incentive cover, where North will hand-letter varying character dialogue on each variant cover.

Fatima and her space crew have decided to return to Earth—a planet completely sectioned off, abandoned, and covered in gold—to find out exactly what happened to this once thriving planet and see if they can use that knowledge against the evil empire that’s tracking them down. As luck would have it, they just landed the most powerful weapon in the universe: some ancient dead guy’s body.

We’ve all heard of the Midas touch. You know, the Greek Myth about the man who did a number on himself by wishing for everything he touched to turn to gold? Who better to turn that tale on its head with a heavy dose of sci-fi than Ryan North? Also, did we mention the Utahraptor?

The over-sized debut issue, The Midas Flesh #1, arrives in comic shops on December 18th with a cover price of $3.99.

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