FREE AGENTS #1
(W) Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (A) Stephen Mooney, Triona Farrell (CA) Stephen Mooney
SERIES PREMIERE GIANT-SIZE! BARGAIN PRICE!
An all-new ongoing series! KURT BUSIEK (ASTRO CITY), FABIAN NICIEZA (Deadpool), and STEPHEN MOONEY (Half Past Danger) introduce a team of young veterans, survivors of a massive intergalactic war. Salvo. Pike. Katari. Shakti. Ridge. Maraud. Chalice.
They’ve fought every day of their existence and won a terrible victory. Now they’re stranded on Earth, free agents for the first time.
But when relics from their long war appear, threatening their chance at better lives, their greatest battle begins. They’ve fought for a million planets. Can they fight to save their own souls?Retail: $3.99 In-Store Date: 7/3/2024
Tiens tiens.
Jim
Voilà voilà.
Bestselling, Eisner Award winning writer Kurt Busiek (Astro City) teams up with self-proclaimed legendary and better-selling writer Fabian Nicieza (Deadpool) and fan-favorite artist Stephen Mooney (Half Past Danger) with colorist Triona Tree Farrell (Harley Quinn, Detective Comics), and letterer Tyler Smith of Comicraft for an all-new ongoing series in, Free Agents. This action-packed, giant-sized, bargain-priced debut will hit shelves from Image Comics in July.
Each issue will also feature a variant-cover character portrait by Kevin Maguire (Justice League), all well as variants by a host of comicdom’s greatest.
“It’s a superhero series with a twist,” said the devastatingly charming, modest and did-we-mention multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winning Busiek. “The Agents were done. They were retired, and had started building new lives, going to college, making themselves a place here on Earth. And then it all starts coming back."
Free Agents introduces readers to a team of young veterans, survivors of a massive interdimensional war: Salvo, Pike, Katari, Shakti, Ridge, Maraud, and Chalice. They’ve fought every day of their existence and won a terrible victory. Now they’re stranded on Earth, free agents for the first time.
But when relics from their long war appear, threatening their chance at better lives, their greatest battle begins. They’ve fought for a million planets. Can they fight to save their own souls?
“This was an idea that just wouldn’t let itself be ignored,” added Busiek. “It first came up in plans for a crossover project Image Publisher Eric Stephenson and I talked about years ago. The crossover idea died, but the Free Agents wouldn’t. The thought of their series kept resurfacing, saying, ‘Hey, we don’t need any stupid crossover! That’s all backstory! Let us out! Let us exist!’ The thing was, the more I thought about them, the more they felt to me like a series that, much as I liked it, was a very Fabian Nicieza kind of book. So I figured 'Why not?’ and gave him a call. Besides, this way I can get Fabian to do all the heavy lifting.”
“Whenever Kurt calls and says, ‘Wanna work on something together?’ my answer is always a really fast, ‘yes!'” said Nicieza. “Making Free Agents even more fun is that I’m really proud to produce creator-owned work under the Image banner for the first time.”
“With Fabes suckered—er, recruited,” Busiek went on, “we needed an artist. Luckily, Eric Stephenson suggested Stephen, and his work on Half Past Danger, The Rocketeer, and more, was more than enough to make us delighted to welcome him aboard."
Mooney added: « It took me all of five seconds to jump aboard Free Agents when Kurt got in touch and asked if I’d like to work on a creator-owned book with him. Learning that Fabian would also be involved was a massive bonus. I grew up (sorry guys) reading so many legendary superhero runs by these two; getting to create my own with them was an opportunity too tempting to pass up. »
Free Agents #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 3
FREE AGENTS #2
Arriving: August 7, 2024
Lunar Code: 0624IM294BUY
Cover price: $3.99
After the shattering conclusion of issue #1, are the FREE AGENTS still FREE—or back on active duty? Plus, the appearance of a second deadly remnant from their interdimensional war forces the team into conflict with BOTOKK, the superhuman curator for the mysterious collector known as THE VAULT! Plus PLUS: A couple of cameos that’ll build to bigger things. Is that…RADIANT BLACK? And who’s the other guy?
Arriving: September 4, 2024
Lunar Code: 0724IM350
Cover price: $3.99THE RETURN OF SUPERSTAR!
The trail of the stolen Breach-tech leads the FREE AGENTS to Los Angeles…and they smack into a confrontation with the celebrity hero SUPERSTAR, who isn’t wild about extra-dimensional aliens busting stuff up on his turf. And hey, is that RADIANT BLACK sniffing around the AGENTS, too? What’s that all about?
Also shipping this month: A new edition of SUPERSTAR: AS SEEN ON TV, the graphic novel by the FREE AGENTS’ own KURT BUSIEK and (literal) superstar artist STUART IMMONEN!Writers
Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek
Artists
Stephen Mooney, Triona Farrell
Cover
Stephen Mooney
Je suis partagé avec ce titre. C’est un peu un bouillon de culture, avec plein de choses dans chaque page et un Mooney qui a parfois des soucis dans ses compositions.
Mais je reste curieux de voir la suite. Si la présence de Radiant Black me laisse de marbre, c’est la présence de Superstar dans le prochain qui m’intrigue…
J’allais dire la même chose : je garde un excellent souvenir de cette trop courte tentative de Busiek…
Jim
Arriving: October 2, 2024
Lunar Code: 0824IM379
Cover price: $3.99A very public confrontation with SUPERSTAR in Los Angeles results in the arrival of—RADIANT BLACK! With the eyes of the world on them, the FREE AGENTS want to stop the fight, but BARRAGE would rather not!
Will they team up after they fight? Yeah, probably…but still, it’s face-crunching action in the Iconic Image Idiom!Writers
Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek
Artists
Stephen Mooney, Triona Farrell
Cover A
Stephen Mooney
Cover B
Kevin Maguire
Cover C
Kevin Maguire, Darick Robertson
Hehe
Free Agents #5
Arriving: November 6, 2024
Lunar Code: 0924IM348Buy
Cover price: $3.99
The Free Agents battle their most dangerous foes: their leader and their own past. An angry Barrage subjects the Agents to a mental « rebooting » process that digs deep into who they are and how they became Breakpoint 10. Will they emerge as obedient soldiers again? Or as themselves?
Arriving: December 4, 2024
Lunar Code: 1024IM345
Cover price: $3.99Trapped in PSYCHE-STIM! Their minds dominated by their leader, Barrage, the Agents fight back—only to learn shattering secrets from his past. But will the revelations help them break free—or permanently subjugate them to his iron will?
Writers
Fabian Nicieza, Kurt Busiek
Artists
Stephen Mooney, Triona Farrell
Cover A
Stephen Mooney
Cover B
Kevin Maguire
Cover C
Tula Lotay
