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The Horizon Experiment gets its first collection this April

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The critically acclaimed The Horizon Experiment comic book series, led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian creator Pornsak Pichetshote, will be collected into a first volume this April. The series features five unique “pilot” one-shots by all-star creative teams from across entertainment, with stories featuring diverse protagonists inspired by pop culture icons (like James Bond, John Constantine, and Indiana Jones), while exploring popular genre fare from a different perspective.

Co-edited by Pichetshote and Eisner Award-winning editor Will Dennis, the series kicked off with The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian, written by Pichetshote and featuring illustrations by superstar artists Terry and Rachel Dodson, a scintillating thriller full of secrets and scandal, featuring a Chinese super spy inspired by James Bond. The Horizon Experiment series also features stunning connecting variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay.

Writer Sabir Pirzada, known for writing on beloved franchises like Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel, teamed with Eisner Award-winning horror artist Michael Walsh for the one-shot, The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned, introducing the world to Inayah Jibril, Professor of Ethnography and the Occult. A love letter to classic horror from Dracula to John Constantine, the terrifying tale follows a Muslim exorcist, in a new interpretation of horror tropes.

Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsay’s The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs one-shot follows a family of Black Lycanthropes of East African descent who find themselves caught in a burgeoning war in Miami when the truth starts to come out that werewolves aren’t just a myth. Co-author of the graphic novel The Keeper, and an acclaimed fiction writer known as the “Octavia Butler of horror,” Due has won an NAACP Image Award, World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, and much more; Moon Dogs marks her first solo full-length writing endeavor in comics. She’s joined by breakout artist Kelsey Ramsay in her first Image Comics series.

J. Holtham, an esteemed playwright, TV writer, and producer, joined the project with his first creator-owned comic The Horizon Experiment: Motherf*ckin’ Monsters, co-created by African-American cartoonist Michael Lee Harris, creator of Black Hitler and Choco Leche. The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters is like Evil Dead for blerds, a love letter to Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright set to a Wu-Tang soundtrack. Fans of Bitter Root and Chew will enjoy this meta horror comedy full of quips and gore, in which a nerdy Black kid from Brooklyn and his friends stumble upon demon-worshipping frat assholes trying to take over the world.

Powerhouse comic book writer Vita Ayala partnered up with on-the-verge star artist Skylar Patridge for The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers, an action-adventure one-shot that twists the genre in a way that’s never been done before. The comic is a reverse Indiana Jones story that follows Puerto Rican archeology grad student Ines Guarua, who plans to steal an important cultural artifact from a famous museum in order to bring it back home to where it belongs.

The Horizon Experiment, Vol. 1 (Lunar code 0225IM443) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, April 16 (FOC date is Monday, March 10). It will be available at independent bookstores (ISBN: 9781534337008) on April 29, 2025, as well as on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones, and across many digital platforms.

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Preview: Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs

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Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs

(W) Tananarive Due (A/CA) Jose Villarrubia, Kelsey Ramsay
In Shops: Nov 20, 2024
SRP: $3.99

Literary horror icon and multi-award-winning novelist Tananarive Due (The Reformatory) and hot newcomer Kelsey Ramsay present Moon Dogs-following East African werewolves secretly living in Miami, as this minority within a minority is caught in a burgeoning war that threatens both lycanthrope and human lives.

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NYCC 2024: Vita Ayala joins Skylar Patridge for The Horizon Experiment: Finders/Keepers

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Powerhouse comic book writer Vita Ayala is partnering up with on-the-verge star artist Skylar Patridge for The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers, a brand-new action-adventure comic that twists the genre in a way that’s never been done before. Fans of Indiana Jones, The Mummy, and Tomb Raider will enjoy this thrilling, fresh take that re-envisions this style of storytelling with new energy and perspective. Hitting shelves in January 2025, this marks the final installment in The Horizon Experiment series of one-shots. 

The Horizon Experiment centers on original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre or inspired by a famous pop culture character, with each unique comic putting a diverse spin on a fan-favorite story. The initiative is led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning creator Pornsak Pichetshote and award-winning editor Will Dennis.

The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers is a reverse Indiana Jones story that follows Puerto Rican archeology grad student Ines Guarua, who plans to steal an important cultural artifact from a famous museum in order to bring it back home to where it belongs, in the heart of the rainforest. If she fails, then a curse may bring about the destruction of Puerto Rico. This leads Guarua on a quest to smuggle other artifacts from museums and institutions to return them to their native cultures. Finders//Keepers flips the script on traditional action-adventure tales in a fun and exciting way, opening up a new path for protagonist Guarua for potential future stories.

Like the other titles in The Horizon Experiment, this one-shot serves as the equivalent of a pilot for a creator-owned series, with the potential of continuing should there be demand for more. Along with a cover featuring art by Patridge, the issue will feature variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, part of a series of connecting variant covers across all five Horizon Experiment one-shots. 

The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers

The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 15:

  • Cover A by Patridge
  • Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting)
  • Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting)
  • Cover D (blank sketch)

“A Chinese James Bond” The Manchurian with writer Pornsak Pichetshote

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“less about, China versus America.. what he really believes is the power of community”. Award winning co-creator of The Good Asian, sak Pichetshote returns to talk about his visonary new project for Image Comics: a series of five one-shot comic books titled The Horizon Experiment. Each has a unique creative team inventing an original protagonist from a marginalized background set in genres such as horror or espionage, or inspired by icons like Indiana Jones or John Constantine.

Pichetshote’s entry in the series, The Manchurian, is more than a James Bond who “just so happens to be Chinese”- he is a spy whose identity is core to the narrative. There’s also Finders/Keepers from Vita Ayala and Skyler Partridge in which a Boricua archaeologist returns an artifact from a museum to the people from whom it was stolen.

The Manchurian, with artists Terry and Rachel Dodson is out now as is The Sacred Damned and more on the way from creative teams that bridge comics, literature, film and television. 

Here’s my 2021 convo about The Good Asian with sak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi.

The Horizon Experiment gets Connecting Covers by Tula Lotay

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Get a sneak peek at The Horizon Experiment’s connecting variant covers reveals stunning artwork by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, highlighting the original protagonists from the series of five one-shots. Led by award-winning creator Pornsak Pichetshote and editor Will Dennis, The Horizon Experiment features all-star talent from across entertainment re-envisioning popular genre fare and iconic characters through a diverse lens for the comic book series. The debut issue, The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian, written by Pichetshote and illustrated by superstar artists Terry and Rachel Dodson, hits shelves in September. 

Lotay is known for not only her gorgeous cover art, but also for her groundbreaking work in comics, film and editorial illustration, including being the artist on Image Comics’ Supreme: Blue Rose, written by Warren Ellis. She won an Eisner Award in 2023 for her work on comic book series Barnstormers: A Ballad of Love and Murder for Best Digital Comic alongside writer Scott Snyder, and in 2024 for SOMNA: A Bedtime Story for Best New Series alongside co-creator Becky Cloonan, which were also edited by Dennis, a frequent co-collaborator.

The Horizon Experiment series kicks off on September 25 with The Manchurian, a scintillating thriller full of secrets and scandal, featuring a Chinese super spy inspired by James Bond. Future issues include a horror tale led by a female Muslim exorcist The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned (by Sabir Pirzada and Michael Walsh), East African werewolf horror The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs (by Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsey), “Evil Dead for blerds” horror-comedy The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters (by J. Holtham and Michael Lee Harris), and “reverse Indiana Jones” action-adventure The Horizon Experiment: Finders / Keepers (by Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge). The five issues will be released on a monthly basis, starting in September.

The Horizon Experiment: The Manchurian #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 25:

  • Cover A by Terry and Rachel Dodson – Lunar code 0724IM267
  • Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting) – Lunar code 0724IM268)
  • Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting) – Lunar code 0724IM269

The Horizon Experiment: The Sacred Damned #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 23 (FOC September 30):

  • Cover A by Michael Walsh – Lunar Code 0824IM324
  • Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting) – Lunar Code 0824IM325
  • Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting) – Lunar Code 0824IM326

The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 20 (FOC October 28):

  • Cover A by Kelsey Ramsay and José Villarrubia – Lunar code 0924IM284
  • Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting) – Lunar code 0924IM285
  • Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting) – Lunar code 0924IM286

Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsay transform the Werewolf genre in Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs

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Tananarive Due, who has earned an American Book Award, NAACP Award, Shirley Jackson Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize, amongst many accolades, has teamed up with rising star Kelsey Ramsay—one of the most sought-after artists in comics—to create the lycanthrope-centered thriller The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs. Marking Due’s first solo full-length writing project in comics, as well as Ramsay’s first Image Comics series, the horror one-shot features stunning colors by José Villarrubia and sharp letters by Jeff Powell. Hitting shelves in November, Moon Dogs is the third comic in The Horizon Experiment series of one-shots, all centering on original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre, led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian and Infidel creator Pornsak Pichetshote. 

Co-edited by Pichetshote and award-winning editor Will Dennis, The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs follows a Black family of lycanthropes of East African descent—who call themselves Moon Dogs—as older sister Nala, her parents, and her boyfriend try to protect her teen brother Kai as he gets caught in the middle of a burgeoning war between a savage pack of werewolves and the Miami police force. After a violent attack, Miami locals are starting to learn that werewolves are not just a myth, and Nala’s family—who are minorities within a minority—find themselves drawn into a very dangerous situation.

The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs explores themes of privilege, power, and oppression, highlighting sharpened conflicts over identity and community in society, told through the lens of a werewolf story. Like the other titles in The Horizon Experiment, this one-shot serves as the equivalent of a pilot for a creator-owned series, with the potential of continuing should there be demand for more. Along with an original cover by Ramsay and Villarrubia, the issue will feature variant covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Tula Lotay, part of a series of connecting variant covers across all five Horizon Experiment one-shots.

The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, November 20:

  • Cover A by Kelsey Ramsay and José Villarrubia – Lunar code 0924IM284
  • Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting) – Lunar code 0924IM285
  • Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting) – Lunar code 0924IM286
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