What if you were forced to watch the world burn?Apocalyptic sci-fi horror from the imagination of legendary creator John Byrne (X-Men, Fantastic Four, She-Hulk, Next Men) hits it in a brand new series from IDW Publishing. Doomsday.1 #1 arrives this week.
Seven astronauts trapped on a space station watch as Earth is scorched by solar flares in Doomsday.1. but eventually the survivors must go back to Earth.
“I’ve been thinking for some time that I would like to revisit a post-apocalypse kind of scenario, such as was seen in my very first ‘dramatic’ work in comics, but this time without the more obvious fantasy elements of that original series (mermaids, alien robots, frozen mammoths, etc.),” said Byrne. “When bits and pieces of this new series first started to percolate around in my head, I knew almost at once the shape that ‘revisit’ would take; something in the ‘All-New, All-Different’ vein. And the first time I doodled some images of my ‘crew,’ I knew I was there!”
“As much as I enjoyed seeing John work on the various licensed titles we’ve done, it’s a continued blast to work with him in developing new concept after new concept this year,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief. “If Earth has to be destroyed in a flaming conflagration, there’s no one I’d rather see bring that carnage and its aftermath to life than JB.”
Byrne is famous for his run as artist on X-Men with Chris Claremont, his Fantastic Four era as writer/artist. IDW brought his Next Men back with reprinted volumes and new stories. Byrne has written several Star Trek stories for IDW.
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Doomsday.1 #1 arrives this week.
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