Media release — new York Comic-Con Announcement: Dynamite proudly announces Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure, a seven-issue monthly crossover event featuring traditional characters of comics as well as film as reimagined by bestselling writer expense Willingham (Fables). featuring interior artwork by Sergio Fernandez Davila, Legenderry launches in January featuring covers by celebrated steampunk artist Joe Benitez (Lady Mechanika).
“This is a story where I get to have my cake as well as eat it too,” says expense Willingham. “I get to work with some of my preferred characters from comic books, prose, as well as film, however likewise get to produce brand new versions of each one of them. That way, I don’t have to make a single one of them fit in with all of the past continuity of those characters. I get the best of both situations. Plus, I built an entire new world in which to place those characters. World-building is one of the best parts of experience storytelling. Legenderry is the name of the world, as well as it is in truth a world peopled with some of the biggest legends of experience fiction. This is my first-ever foray into the Steampunk genre, so that’s one more new experience I get to go on as a writer.”
Legenderry: A Steampunk experience is, as expense Willingham describes it, “a world in which the excellent heroes of our stories online in the flesh.” The story begins in a large Victorian-style metropolis, a city protected by Vampirella, the eco-friendly Hornet, as well as Kato. After a scarlet-clad woman of secret rushes into a bar pursued by assassins, the resulting chaos spreads to other reimagined landscapes ripped from traditional comic books, literature, as well as television, including the wild jungles of The Phantom, Flash Gordon’s futuristic haven of Landing, aerial combat alongside Captain Victory, as well as more. The action ultimately leads to the Monstrous Lands, an unruly territory both lawless as well as sinister.
An event series four years in the making, Legenderry proves the old adage that “good things come to those who wait.” Willingham mined the rich Dynamite universe for the perfect characters to populate the vast, reimagined landscape of Legenderry. In recent months, Willingham has personally supervised the visual advancement of the series, courtesy of designs by artist Johnny D., whose artwork has graced numerous Dynamite covers as well as many recently, the total Vampirella Strikes comic book series. “It was an honor to take some really timeless characters as well as make them fit into the steampunk world,” says Johnny D. “They all have a excellent distinct base to go off, so it has been a great deal of fun working on the designs. I’ve worked with many of these characters before as well as look ahead to the series.”
The cast of Legenderry characters changes each issue, as Willingham as well as Davila steer the action from one stunning place to the next. featured characters include Steve Austin of The six Million dollar Man, the traditional pulp duo of eco-friendly Hornet as well as Kato, legendary masked adventurer Zorro, the Dynamite mainstay Vampirella, the beloved superheroes Silver star as well as Captain victory created by Jack Kirby, Flash Gordon as well as The Phantom from King features Syndicate, as well as finally, the swords-and-sorcery icon Red Sonja.
Bill Willingham has been writing, as well as sometimes drawing, “funnybooks” for close to thirty years, as well as authors prose fiction as well. He is best known for creating the complying with comic book series: Elementals, Ironwood, Coventry, Pantheon, Proposition Player, Shadowpact, as well as — perhaps many notably — the bestselling as well as long-running DC/Vertigo series, Fables as well as Fairest.
“I’ve personally known expense Willingham for over three decades, as well as regard him as one of the most talented, hardworking, as well as innovative creators in our industry,” says Nick Barrucci, CEO as well as publisher of Dynamite. “I’ve been talking with him because 2009 about projects, however between his hectic schedule as well as the explosive success of Fables as well as Fairest, we both wanted to wait until we might provide the project the full interest it deserves. as well as expense wouldn’t want to provide anything less than 100% of his attention! As time progressed, our many discussions have led to a groundbreaking event, something that will shake up exactly how people view our incredible library of characters. expense wanted to work in a world without the constraints of continuity, where he might paint broad strokes on a fresh canvas. When the creativity as well as aesthetics of Steampunk science-fiction became our focus, well — the ideas just began to flow from his mind onto the page. It’s my pleasure, both personal as well as professional, to welcome expense Willingham to the Dynamite fold, as well asnull