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PORTLAND, OR, 10/16/2018 — Award-winning screenwriter Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A star Wars Story, The book Of Eli) teams with celebrated artist Darick Robertson (HAPPY!, Transmetropolitan, The Boys) for the extremely anticipated new dystopian series OLIVER—coming this January from picture Comics.
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“OLIVER has been a lot more than 15 years in the making, so it’s a specific excitement to lastly see it on its method to a comics store near you, as well as each time when it feels a lot more appropriate than ever,” stated Whitta. “I couldn’t be a lot more ecstatic to be working with my long-time good friend Darick Robertson, whose artwork I’ve admired ever considering that his groundbreaking work on Transmetropolitan.”
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In this absolutely new handle a literary classic, Charles Dickens’ a lot of popular orphan is reimagined as a post-apocalyptic superhero battling to liberate a war-ravaged England while searching for the reality about his own mysterious origins.
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“This job has been a long labor of like for me,” stated Robertson. “Co-creating OLIVER has been an chance to bring my level finest work, with support from Eric Stephenson as well as Image. It is the essence of what brings me enthusiasm for comics as well as visual storytelling. With OLIVER, I have been able to co-create a rich, emotionally engaging story by my (very patient) good friend Gary Whitta, whose occupation has just surged in the time we have been producing this book. For me, this is what indie comics are all about. I am thrilled to have it arranged for its January introduce at long last.”