Author Charles Soule teams up with superstar artist Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque for an all-new tale of thrilling terror in the upcoming The Bloody Dozen. This six issue miniseries will join Hell to Pay as the newest installment of Soule and Will Sliney’s supernatural horror/adventure saga “The Shrouded College” and is set to launch in December from Image Comics.
In The Bloody Dozen, three down-and-out astronauts are tasked with the ultimate heist: springing a clan of deadly vampires from a space prison orbiting the Sun. Apollo 13 meets Blade in this killer thriller!
The debut issue of The Bloody Dozen will feature cover art by Hell to Pay artist/co-creator Sliney, as well as a special 1:50 variant cover that comes with its own individually-numbered, limited-edition “challenge coin,” designed by Sliney in the style of a NASA mission patch.
Soule and Sliney’s “The Shrouded College” is an interconnected set of seven adventure/horror stories that will be published in comic and graphic novel formats over the next several years. Taken together, they tell the stories of various characters enlisted to become secret agents fighting a supernatural cold war on the side of the Shrouded College, a down-and-out organization on the edge of destruction.
The Shrouded College is in the works as a TV series after Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door and UCP secured the rights. The project is set up at Peacock…Soule and Sliney will exec produce the project alongside MacFarlane, Erica Huggins and Rachel Hargreaves-Heald for Fuzzy Door.
The Bloody Dozen #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, December 13:
- Cover A by Sliney – Lunar Code 1023IM256
- Cover B by Jiménez Alburquerque – Lunar Code 1023IM257
- Cover C (1:10 copy incentive) by Sliney – Lunar Code 1023IM258
- Cover D (1:50 copy incentive) by Sliney – Lunar Code 1023IM259
Source: Graphic Policy
