Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard are teaming up for a new Image Comics series called The Power Fantasy. A kind of riff off Gillen’s Immortal X-Men, the series is “an eternal fight against fight” and is due out in August 2024. The series was announced at Emerald City Comic Con.
The series will feature six super powered people, but fighting is the last thing the world wans.
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“The Power Fantasy emerged in a similar way to The Wicked + The Divine,” said Gillen in a statement. “I was doing a book at Marvel, and became aware of exactly the sort of things I could do with the reins taken off. “As The Wicked + the Divine was to Young Avengers, this is to Immortal X-men. It’s a comic informed by superheroes, but one where a fight is the absolute lose state, for everyone. It’s set from 1945-1999, and so is a chance to really have fun with an alternate cultural history too. I think you can see it as an extension of my best work: WicDivian alternate-pop culture, a cold-war take on Uber’s realpolitik, Die’s social group drama hyper-charged by genre.”
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