Skybound continues its surprising casting with Common Monsters: The Mummy, a 4 situation mini from Eisner Award winner and New York Instances bestselling comics creator Religion Erin Hicks (Pumpkinheads, The Anonymous Metropolis Trilogy). It’s a part of their ongoing partnership with Common Merchandise & Experiences and it comes out in March.
Hicks can be aided by colorist Lee Loughridge (Standstill) for what guarantees to be a daring new tackle the basic horror character, who shambled to fame within the 1932 Boris Karloff basic movie, and has been launched from his tomb for a lot of takes, together with the 1999 Brendan Fraser model.
“What I get pleasure from probably the most about The Mummy is the romance underlying all of the horror. A mortal man defies historic gods to carry his lifeless lover again to life and pays the final word value, remodeled 1000’s of years later right into a strolling specter of dying. The Mummy is intrinsically a tragic determine pushed by his personal ache and loss, his comprehensible human feelings twisted into acts,” stated Hicks in an announcement. “It’s been a thrill to inform this story from the perspective of Helen, the fashionable incarnation of The Mummy’s lengthy lifeless love, and illustrate her rising consciousness of the heartbroken horror that’s lurking within the shadows of early twentieth century Egypt. I hope followers of all variations of The Mummy get pleasure from my tackle this romantically horrifying (or horrifyingly romantic) story.”
Helen Grosvenor is a girl born to 2 worlds and belonging in neither, endlessly haunted by a cursed encounter as a toddler. When unknown voices carry her again to an Egyptian dig web site from her previous, Helen will unknowingly play an surprising function within the rise of a monster identified solely as…THE MUMMY!
Earlier Skybound/Common collabs embrace James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds’ Dracula (which netted Simmonds a BEST PAINTER/MULTIMEDIA ARTIST (INTERIOR ART) Eisner Award nomination); Ram V, Dan Watters, and Matthew Roberts’ Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives!; and Michael Walsh’s Frankenstein.
In fact, no comics horror story would come with out a full retinue of variant covers, and we bought them….and a sneak peak.
The complete record of covers is beneath:
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl A by Religion Erin Hicks
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl B by Joshua Middleton
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl C (1:10 Incentive) (Connecting) by Guillem March
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl D (1:25 “Basic Horror” B&W) by Joshua Middleton
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl E (1:50 Incentive) by Martin Simmonds
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl F (1:75 Incentive) by Gabriel Rodriguez
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl G (1:100 Incentive) (Foil) by Gabriel Rodriguez
Common Monsters: The Mummy #1 Cowl H Clean Sketch Cowl
