The world’s biggest music festivals inspire a brand new comic book by acclaimed writer Paul Jenkins (Spider-Man, Darkness, Sentry, Inhumans, Wolverine: Origin, Batman: The Dark Knight.)
Titan Comics and Atomeka launch TomorrowLand – a four-part comic book story by Jenkins and Stellar Labs this week.
The music festival, Tomorrowland, is set to expand for the first time outside of Belgium to Chattahoochee Hills, GA, USA in September 2013. The annual festival, which takes place at the end of July in Belgium, has already sold out all 180,000 tickets in under one second. In 2013 Tomorrowland will welcome attendees from 214 countries from around the world.
The TomorrowLand comics series, by Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Jenkins with art by Stellar Labs (Hulk, Superman, Power Girl, Cyber-Force, Heavy Metal) follows DJs Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike, two stars who have become the public face of the Tomorrowland festival “as they are drawn into an impossible adventure to save the vital spark of creativity from the forces that would destroy it!”
Here’s more of the concept from Titan Comics:
“There are two worlds – the world we see, and the one we sense. The world we see is a harsh place: divided by wars and political extremism, religious fundamentalism and avarice. The world we sense hides in plain sight: you can see it in your peripheral vision, moving, vibrant. It’s a world of feeling, where art, music and science intertwine, where the written word is a powerful tool of creation.
In these two worlds, we each carry two avatars – one embodying destruction, one connected to creation. This is the way of the universe. But creation and destruction wage an eternal war for the energy we carry inside us. It’s a war that we are rapidly losing…
Whether you’re an attendee dug in deep at the Festival itself – where the events of the story will play out in the real world! – or a music-loving civilian kicking back listening to your favorite tracks at home, the Tomorrowland comic is a breathless explosion of color, adventure, and the importance of unbridled creativity in a world growing stale!”
“This is a chance to integrate a storyline into the festival itself,” says writer Paul Jenkins. “Those attending the show will see the comic elements appear around them and on stage scenes. The world of the graphic novel will come alive!”
“Paul Jenkins is one of our heroes,” say DJs Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike. “We loved working with him on this story and the way he brought this to the next level. We just created a new universe that we’re going to expand exponentially in the next few years!”
TomorrowLand #1 hits comic stores this week.
By Editor