MINOR THREATS #1-3 (Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum / Scott Hepburn)

From Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, the showrunners behind the hit Hulu series Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K., comes their first creator-owned series Minor Threats . Featuring superstar artist Scott Hepburn ( M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games ), with colors by Ian Herring, and letters by Nate Piekos, Minor Threats is a genre-bending crime drama about superheroes and villains and the last gasp of the colorful innocent days of the silver and bronze era of comics before they are dragged into the grit-soaked modern times.

It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses… but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks… and they’re about to get much worse. The psychotic Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac . The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a terrifying police state–desperate to capture the Stickman and stop the Insomniac from “crossing that final line” in which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to pull jobs or even walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to put together a ragtag team of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves. Leading her on a dark journey into the criminal underbelly she’s tried so hard to escape.

“Every comic book fan dreams of creating their own universe,” said series co-writer Patton Oswalt. “This one is mine and Jordan’s. There is fun and danger and violence and sadness just like in real life, but with WAY brighter colors. I can’t wait to see you guys experience it.”

Said co-writer Jordan Blum, “This is our love letter to superhero comics and crime fiction. An underdog story of inept costumed criminals in over their heads, trying to survive an unforgiving city filled with caped gods, fallen kaiju, and traffic causing time vortexes. Everyday crooks in a fantastical world trying to get theirs.”

“Work like this is why I’ve always wanted to be a comic book artist,” added series artist Scott Hepburn. “Patton, Jordan, and myself are in a three-way battle of one-ups-manship to prove who loves this book more.”

Minor Threats #1 (of four) will be in comic shops August 24, 2022. It is available for pre-order at your local comic shop. Minor Threats will have a standard cover by Scott Hepburn, a special foil variant of the standard cover, and a variant by Hellboy ’s Mike Mignola and Dave Stewart!

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It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses . . . but the little guys. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to poles. And things are about to get worse. The psychotic Stickman has murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight Citys premier crime-fighter, the Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a police state–desperate to capture Stickman and stop the Insomniac from crossing that final line in which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to assemble a ragtag team of villains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves.

The debut series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum!
Creators

Writer:
Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum
Artist:
Scott Hepburn
Colorist:
Ian Herring
Cover Artist:
Scott Hepburn, Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart

Genre: Superhero, Action/Adventure

Publication Date:
August 24, 2022
Format:
FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$4.99

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The Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, the sidekick to Twilight Citys premier crime-fighting vigilante the Insomniac. While the Insomniacs superhero teammates are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a terrifying police state–hoping to find the Stickman before an unhinged Insomniac does. D-list, blue-collar, costumed-criminals have formed an uneasy alliance to hunt down and kill the Stickman themselves in a desperate attempt to end the chaos!

The debut series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum!
Creators

Writer:
Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum
Artist:
Scott Hepburn
Colorist:
Ian Herring
Cover Artist:
Scott Hepburn, Francesco Francavilla

Genre: Superhero, Action/Adventure

Publication Date:
October 05, 2022
Format:
FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$4.99

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Our group of D-list costumed villains set out across the city to hunt down the lethal, criminal-mastermind the Stickman, and collect the lucrative bounty on his head. Hoping to find him at an upscale nightclub for super villains they instead encounter something more terrifying–the unhinged vigilante hero, The Insomniac, out for revenge.

« I was hooked from the first page! Minor Threats is delicious, villainous dark pop that churns up the world of the marginalized and serves up a decadent and dangerous feast, all presented in glorious bombastic visual eye-fuckery that has re-ignited my love of comics. At last, something cool in a world where nothing is cool. » -Taika Waititi

Creators

Writer:
Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum
Artist:
Scott Hepburn
Colorist:
Ian Herring
Cover Artist:
Scott Hepburn

Genre: Superhero, Action/Adventure

Publication Date:
November 09, 2022
Format:
FC, 32 pages; Miniseries
Price:
$4.99