I squealed on the inside with geek glee when I saw this preview on Comic Book Resources! I love John Byrne’s Next Men. The original Dark Horse series was groundbreaking, compelling and redefined the science fiction super hero concept for me. The sex, violence, humor and unpredictable storytelling were like nothing I had experienced before. The survivors and villains of Project Next Men were caught up in such a time twisting, reality warping world yet John Byrne made them so human and real.
John Byrne picked up with Danny, Jasmine, Nathan, Bethany and Jack’s story in last year’s mini-series published by IDW. There was bigger role for government agent Tony Murcheson. The first series took the kids across America. The new series took them across time leading up to a shocking mission into the past that would rewrite the entire Next Men universe. Next month Aftermath begins with two Next Men in the past and Jasmine on the run from stalkers from various eras.
Get thee to a comic book store and pick up the collected editions including 2112 the graphic novel that started it all. The first series is so visual – I always saw Angela Bassett as Agent Tony Murcheson and Tommy Lee Jones as Senator Aldus Hilltop before he became…well that would spoil it.
I wanted to share these preview images. Here’s the Comic Book Resources link with more exclusive pages.