Kyle Higgins Announces New Comic Series ORDINARY GODS Launching This Summer
Kyle Higgins is having great success right now with his comic series Radiant Black, but that’s not stopping his creativity. It was recently revealed that he’s teamed up with Felipe Watanabe (The Flash) to bring a new comic series called Ordinary Gods to Image Comics. The series definitely sounds pretty intriguing and Higgins has done some incredible work, so I’ll definitely be checking this new series out.
The Luminary. The Prodigy. The Brute. The Trickster. The Innovator. Five gods from a realm beyond our own, leaders in the “War of Immortals.” At least, they were—before they were trapped, sent to a planet made into a prison, forced into an endless cycle of human death and reincarnation.
Ordinary Gods follows 22-year-old Christopher. He's got two loving parents and a 12-year-old sister. He works at a paint store. He's in therapy. He’s one of the Five. Which means, in order to save everyone he cares about, Christopher will have to reconnect with his past lives and do the unthinkable: become a god again.
Talking to SYFYWIRE about the series, Higgins said:
Sometimes an idea is so good, it’s impossible to ignore. Even if it initially seems impossible to crack, you circle back to it time and time again, bringing with you new life experiences and concepts learned from other projects. And even if it takes ten years before you’re ready to announce the book to the world, that’s okay. Because, as Ordinary Gods will be exploring, everything’s connected for a reason. This is a book that I’ve been working on for many years, alongside an incredible cast of artistic partners and collaborators, to try to tell a generational action epic that spans eras, worlds, dimensions and the connections between them all. And that’s just issue one.
Watanabe released the following statement:
After the first conversation with Kyle about the Ordinary Gods, I already knew I was facing something powerful. And it happened to be a brilliant idea, which took a long way to get to my hands, though right on time to get the best of me. Getting closer to the release of Ordinary Gods just enhances the feeling I have of how amazing it has been being part of the process of creation of such universe, among such talented people, over the past few years. I mean, since the beginning of the story, there were so many cool things, with characters who seemed to be common like us, but who held within themselves the power that was unknown until then.
Fans will be able to read Ordinary Gods #1 on July 7 at local comic shops or wherever they like to buy comics. You can check out a preview below.
