Legendary comic book writer, artist, and former Editor-in-Chief and Chief Creative Officer at Marvel Entertainment Joe Quesada has ambitious plans for his new venture, Amazing Comics. At the Angoulême International Comics Festival, Quesada has teased the upcoming slate of top-secret titles for the start-up publisher, which will feature comic books written by some of the biggest names in the entertainment and comic book industries, including: 

• Derek Kolstad, the writer and creator of John Wick and Nobody;
• J. Michael Straczynski, the creator of Babylon 5, co-writer of the TV series Sence8, screenwriter of Clint Eastwood’s Changeling and the MCU Thor film; 
• Steven Paul Judd, the writer on Dark Winds and Echo television shows; 
• Christopher Priest, legendary writer of Black Panther and Deadpool for Marvel Comics;
• Garth Ennis, writer and co-creator of The Boys and Preacher comic books;
• Ethan Sacks, writer of Star Wars for Marvel Comics and co-writer of the acclaimed Image Comics series A Haunted Girl; 
• Charles Dorfman, writer and director of Barbarians, was an Associate Producer on the Academy Award-winning The King’s Speech and producer of the Oscar-nominated The Lost Daughter.

Upcoming Amazing Comics will be illustrated by all-star artists, including Quesada himself, as well as:

• Esad Ribic, artist on Marvel’s Secret Wars, Silver Surfer: Requiem, X-Men and Thor for Marvel Comics;
• Ryan Stegman, artist on Venom, The King in Black, X-Men, Vanish, and Missionary
• Ronan Toulhoat, artist of the immensely popular European albums Daemon and Dog Head

Amazing Comics will work with Mad Cave Studios and Dupuis to publish and distribute titles on both sides of the Atlantic. 

Amazing Comics’ inaugural title, Disciple, was announced last year at Comic-Con International in San Diego. Quesada and Dorfman will co-write the much-anticipated reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Dorfman will be making his comics debut with the series illustrated by Quesada and inker Wade von Grawbadger, with colorist Richard Isanove and letterer Joe Caramagna.