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Power is threatened in Remender and Bengal’s Napalm Lullaby

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The bestselling creative duo behind fan-favorite series Death or Glory—Rick Remender and Bengal—reteam for an all-new dystopian epic in, Napalm Lullaby. This ongoing series is set to launch in March 2024 from the Giant Generator line at Image Comics.

Issue #1 will feature variant covers by superstar artists JG Jones, Yanick Paquette, Eric Powell, Jeff Dekal, Andrew Robinson, Davi Go, James Harren, and Daniel Warren Johnson.

What if a child with unimaginable power was discovered and raised to believe he was God by a cult built upon hatred and populated by zealots utterly confident in the purity and absolute moral authority of their religion? Enter a world ruled by The Magnificent Leader, where just such a cult imposed their will on an entire world to create the ultimate theocracy. Join up and buy in—or be cast out to suffer in the toxic slums with the masses of humanity.

The story of Napalm Lullaby begins 50 years after the cult’s subjugation of Earth, when two of the messiah’s bastard children—each with powers that are strange and difficult to control—set out to escape the slums of their birth. Determined to infiltrate the Magnificent Leader’s domed fortress of adulation, they’ll stop at nothing to kill the man responsible for the nightmare they were raised in.

Dust to Dust, a serial killer at large during the Dust Bowl

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Fan-favorite co-writers JG Jones and Phil Bram team up—with Jones on art at well—to bring a unique, historical thriller to life in the forthcoming Dust to Dust. This 10-issue limited series will launch in May 2024 from the Giant Generator line at Image Comics.

In the darkest days of the Great Depression, death stalks the Dust Bowl. As towering dust storms blast the parched Oklahoma panhandle, farmers try to flee the failing town of New Hope, but no one gets far. Battling his own demons, Sheriff Meadows teams up with Sarah, a traveling photo-journalist, in a desperate fight to stop the Death that rides the Dusters.

Dust to Dust #1 will be available at comic book shops in May 2024. 

Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, Brett Parson, and Moreno Dinisio have you shred with Grommets in April 2024

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Writer Rick Remender teams with co-writer and Emmy Award winning comedian Brian Posehn, artist Brett Parson, and colorist Moreno Dinisio, for an all-new, ongoing comic book series titled, Grommets. This ’80s-infused coming-of-age story is set to launch in April 2024 from Remender’s Giant Generator line at Image Comics.

Grommets will feature a slew of variant covers by such artists as: David Lapham, Andrew Robinson, Alex Riegel, Chuck BB, and Jon Wayshak.

In Grommets, two outcast best friends navigate the Sacramento suburbs of 1984, where they find a home in skateboard culture and punk rock. Grommets is both an authentic look at ’80s skate culture—a snapshot of the generation that turned skating into a worldwide phenomenon—as well as a heartfelt coming-of-age story following two friends from troubled homes navigating their damage in an era when no one cared.

The series’ title sprints from skater slang, a “grommet” is a commonly used term for a young up-and-coming skater or surfer. Since the ’60s it’s been used to describe the next generation of kids who, with youthful exuberance, love the sport but want to put their spin on it.

Grommets #1 will be available at comic book shops in April 2024.

NYCC 2023: Image and Rick Remender’s Giant Generator Studios announce exclusive talent

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During New York Comic Con 2023, Image Comics and Giant Generator Studios announced that a massive lineup of talent that have signed exclusive deals for upcoming projects with Rick Remender’s Giant Generator line. This will all lead to a huge rollout of exciting creator-owned launches for the line.

  • Daniel Acuña (Uncanny Avengers, Captain America)
  • André Lima Araújo (A RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE, Spider-Verse)
  • Paul Azaceta (OUTCAST, Punisher)
  • Bengal (Spider-Gwen, DEATH OR GLORY)
  • Roland Boschi (THE SCUMBAG, Winter Soldier)
  • Max Fiumara (THE SACRIFICERS, Amazing Spider-Man)
  • Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool, Batman)
  • JG Jones (WANTED, Marvel Boy)
  • Francesco Mobili (Secret Wars, SPAWN)
  • Brett Parson (Tank Girl)
  • Yanick Paquette (Wonder Woman, Batman Incorporated)
  • Greg Tocchini (LOW, Uncanny X-Force)

Remender will collaborate with many of these artists on new projects, while some will be writing their own material, and others will be joined by writers yet-to-be-announced. All creators will retain full rights on books owned 100% by the creative teams.

The first launches out of this new wave of Giant Generator talent were unveiled during the Giant Generator New York Comic Con panel and include: Grommets by Rick Remender, Brian Posehn, and Brett Parson, Napalm Lullaby by Rick Remender and Bengal, and Dust to Dust by JG Jones and Phil Bram. 

Rick Remender inks an Exclusive Deal with Image

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Rick Remender has signed a three-year exclusive contract with Image Comics, effective immediately. This exclusive gives Remender carte blanche on his upcoming titles and signals a wave of exciting plans for his Giant Generator imprint.

Remender’s successful runs on Marvel’s Avengers, X-Force, Captain America, Deadpool, and Guardians of the Galaxy garnered him early attention and acclaim in the industry and the stories he told went on to be mined for multiple film adaptations.

On top of his success at Marvel, Remender began building his creator-owned career early and has a long history with Image. He has called the publisher home for his Giant Generator line of bestselling titles since 2013 and has worked nearly exclusively with Image for the past decade already.

Remender has adamantly championed creator-owned comics and built a portfolio of some of the most rigorously reordered, evergreen titles in Image’s backlist, consistently outpacing the momentum of each series before it. His fan-favorite series Deadly Class with Wes Craig has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, Black Science with Matteo Scalera, and LOW with Greg Tocchini have each sold over half a million copies, Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opeña and Tokyo Ghost with Sean Gordon Murphy are close behind and climbing. Thanks to that longevity and fanbase Remender currently has multiple Image projects in various stages of development in Hollywood with details on the horizon.

Giant Generator’s popular deluxe hardcover format has garnered a cult following over the years with comics collectors. Tokyo Ghost, Black Science, Seven to Eternity, Deadly Class, and LOW deluxe hardcovers have all had multiple printings to keep up with the demand, with Fear Agent joining the line this winter.

Remender has always focused on collaborating and co-owning the books with a murder’s row of the top artistic talent in the industry including Jerome Opeña, Wes Craig, Matteo Scalera, Sean Gordon Murphy, Greg Tocchini, Bengal, André Lima Araújo, Tony Moore, Max Fiumara, Roland Boschi, and many more soon to be announced.

In addition to fan and retailer enthusiasm, Remender found enormous critical success with his irreverent comedy miniseries, The Scumbag. Another example of Remender proving there is an appetite for stories that run the genre gamut from science fiction, to dystopian, to action, to crime, and from horror to humor.

This announcement comes on the heels of A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance with André Lima Araújo proving a critical darling and sales juggernaut and the successful launch of the new Remender and Fiumara series The Sacrificers—which sold out instantly at the distributor level and was rushed back to print day-of-release. The Sacrificers is the first in a heart-stopping new rollout of Giant Generator books. The drumbeat of fanfare will continue with the upcoming launch of The Holy Roller this October which teams Remender with Andy Samberg and Joe Trohman. There will be more of the Giant Generator titles unveiled during the New York Comic Con panel on Saturday, October 14 at 12 PM—Generating Creator-Owned Comics with Image Comics’ Giant Generator.

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