The Massive-Verse Expands with THE DEAD LUCKY This August at Image Comics
The Massive-verse continues to grow at Image Comics with The Dead Lucky, launching this August. Written by Melissa Flores (Power Rangers), with art by French Carlomagno (Power Rangers), and colors by Mattia Iacono (Radiant Black), The Dead Lucky is a new ongoing series about a new hero named Bibiana Lopez-Yang who lives in a changing San Francisco. I love the Massive-verse so far and this looks like a great addition. You can check out a preview of the first issue below.
In The Dead Lucky, San Francisco is changing. Tech consortium Morrow is building the city of the future with “peacekeeper” robots looming on every corner—and wherever Morrow isn’t, the Salvation gang is.
Bibiana Lopez-Yang is changing too. She came back from Afghanistan with PTSD and the ability to control electrical currents. If she can hold it together, she might be the hero San Francisco needs. But against an enemy this big, it isn’t enough to be good. She’ll have to be lucky.
Sharing her excitement to bring Bibiana’s story to the page, Flores told io9:
The opportunity to introduce Bibiana and The Dead Lucky to the Massive-verse with such fantastic collaborators as French, Mattia, Becca and the Massive-Verse team, is an honor that can’t be understated. When we meet Bibi, she lives between worlds, culturally, physically and mentally. Stricken with survivor’s guilt, she’s untethered; lonely and lost in her past, drifting without purpose. I can’t wait for the world to experience her superhero journey.
Carlomagno added:
It was exciting to be able to bring Melissa's characters to life. Readers will quickly realize how complex Bibi is and I'm sure they will love her. Having the opportunity to be co-creator of this series gave me the chance to do exactly the pages I had in mind with complete freedom and that's why it was also great working with Mattia, with whom a fantastic chemistry was immediately born that made the pages even more alive!
Creator of Radiant Black and the Massive-verse, Kyle Higgins, added:
One of the best things to come out of my time on Power Rangers was getting to work with Melissa, who continues to impress me as a storyteller and a natural world builder. When she pitched me The Dead Lucky it was a no brainer. What she, French, Mattia and Becca have put together is a fascinating look at technology, grief and our need to connect...plus some killer superhero action, of course. I can’t wait for people to explore the next corner of The Massive Verse!
Fans can read The Dead Lucky #1 on August 3 at their local comic shop or wherever they like to buy comics. The main cover features art by Carlomagno with variants available by Federico Sabbatini and Mafuriah, Eleonora Carlini, Tom Whalen, and David Lafuente with Miquel Muerto.
