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ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER NEW COMPANY
Posted: 071618

New Comic Company With Vertigo Roots to Debut in September

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that a brand-new comic book company, AHOY Comics, will launch in September with an initial slate of four titles. The company was founded by former journalist Hart Seely, former DC employee Tom Peyer and the venerable Stuart Moore. Moore and Peyer were editors on the original launch of Vertigo at DC Comics back in 1993. The book will look different and have 40-pages of content for $3.99. Each issue will have a main comic book story and back-up stories that will be a mixture of prose, poetry and cartoons. The name of the company stands for abundance (more pages per issue), humor, originality and yes (as in yes to collected editions, meaningful stories, dramatic art, working and shipping on schedule), The first two titles to be released will be The Wrong Earth, a six-issue miniseries written by Peyer and drawn by Jamal Igle. It is about two versions of a character named Dragonflyman, who each live on a different version of Earth. One is a traditional superhero and the other is a brutal vigilante. They somehow switch places. The series will have a backup prose story from Grant Morrison and a cartoon from Shannon Wheeler. The five-issue limited series High Heaven, from Peyer and Greg Scott will tell the story of a guy who is constantly complaining about life and after dying continues his complaining ways in the afterlife. The book will also have a Morrison back-up prose story, a Shannon Wheeler cartoon and a backup strip by Peyer and artist Chris Giarrusso. October will bring the six issue anthology series Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror, a humorous take on horror stories and the four-issue limited series Captain Ginger from Stuart Moore and June Brigman, about a group of cats flying through space in a spaceship following the end of human life on Earth. Captain Ginger #1 will also have a Morrison prose story (drawn by Phil Hester) and a Shannon Wheeler cartoon.

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