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. |