‘Minor Threats’ Launches Summer season 2022
From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, the showrunners behind the hit Hulu sequence Marvel’s M.O.D.O.Okay., comes their first creator-owned sequence Minor Threats. That includes famous person artist Scott Hepburn (M.O.D.O.Okay.: Head Video games), with colours by Ian Herring, and letters by Nate Piekos, Minor Threats is a genre-bending crime drama about superheroes and villains and the final gasp of the colourful harmless days of the silver and bronze period of comics earlier than they’re dragged into the grit-soaked trendy occasions.
It’s exhausting on the market for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses… however the little guys, the profession criminals. Those who placed on uniforms, knock over jewellery shops, and get tied to phone poles earlier than the hero swings off to face the precise massive dangerous. Instances are powerful for costumed crooks… they usually’re about to get a lot worse. The psychotic Stickman has executed the unthinkable and murdered Child Nightfall, sidekick to Twilight Metropolis’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight aside, turning it right into a terrifying police state–desperate to seize the Stickman and cease the Insomniac from “crossing that last line” during which he could by no means come again from. Caught within the center are the small-time c-list villains, discovering it inconceivable to drag jobs and even stroll down the road with out being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to place collectively a ragtag staff of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves. Main her on a darkish journey into the prison underbelly she’s tried so exhausting to flee.
“Each comedian ebook fan desires of making their very own universe,” mentioned sequence co-writer Patton Oswalt. “This one is mine and Jordan’s. There’s enjoyable and hazard and violence and unhappiness similar to in actual life, however with WAY brighter colours. I can’t wait to see you guys expertise it.”
Mentioned co-writer Jordan Blum, “That is our love letter to superhero comics and crime fiction. An underdog story of inept costumed criminals in over their heads, making an attempt to outlive an unforgiving metropolis full of caped gods, fallen kaiju, and visitors inflicting time vortexes. On a regular basis crooks in a fantastical world making an attempt to get theirs.”
“Work like for this reason I’ve at all times wished to be a comic book ebook artist,” added sequence artist Scott Hepburn. “Patton, Jordan, and myself are in a three-way battle of one-ups-manship to show who loves this ebook extra.”
Minor Threats #1 (of 4) will probably be in comedian outlets August 24, 2022. It’s obtainable for pre-order at your native comedian store. Minor Threats could have a regular cowl by Scott Hepburn, a particular foil variant of the usual cowl, and a variant by Hellboy’s Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart!
“Minor Threats is a hardcore blast from the dangerous mind of Patton Oswalt. I like the full-on collision of his dirty, superhero underworld; with eye-poppingly attractive splash pages of artwork by Scott Hepburn. A naughty peek underneath the cape that you will devour like contraband.” –Edgar Wright (Director—Final Night time in Soho, Shaun of the Lifeless)
“Minor Threats is strictly what one would anticipate from Patton Oswalt—it’s clever, humorous, and twisted. I’m additionally frightened about him.”–Judd Apatow (Director—The 40-Yr-Outdated Virgin, The King of Staten Island)
