Profitant de sa notoriété actuelle chez Dark Horse, le scénariste Fred Van Lente (Conan the Avengers, Brain Boy, Project Black Sky) proposera la nouvelle série régulière Resurrectionists en novembre, avec Maurizio Rosenzweig (Clown Fatale) au dessin et Juan Doe à l’illustration des couvertures.
présenté comme un polar se déroulant en même temps dans l’Égypte ancienne et en 2015, l’histoire suit « les Résurrectionnistes », des criminels spéciaux qui, en débloquant la mémoire de leurs vies passées (ainsi que la connaissance de leurs anciennes capacités), tentent depuis 3000 ans de voler un objet particulier.
Fred Van lente déclare avoir déjà deux autres projets personnels, dont un dans un état très avancé, à paraitre plus tard dans l’année chez Dark Horse.
[quote=« Fred Van Lente »]The kernel of this story came about many years ago, when I was first starting out as a pro, researching a Rama-Tut story for Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four — and the fact I was actually doing historical research for an issue of Marvel Adventures: Fantastic Four says pretty much all you need to know about me — and I came across a passage in a book about ancient Egypt that said that tomb robbing was an actual profession in the days of the Pharaohs. Resurrectionists would be hired by nobles to destroy the mummies and loot the tombs of their enemies to screw them in the afterlife.
And then I thought, well, what if our modern world was the afterlife, and reincarnation was eternal life? And you had these tomb robbers, trying over and over and over again to pull off the same heist for three thousand years, until finally, in our day, they look like they’re about to succeed. And that’s where Resurrectionists comes from.[/quote]
[quote]Resurrectionists #1
Story by Fred Van Lente
Art by Maurizio Rosenzweig
Cover by Moreno Dinisio
Publisher Dark Horse Comics
Cover Price: $3.50
Release Date Wed, November 12th, 2014
Are you near-death experienced? Framed architect-turned-thief Jericho Way has discovered he’s a Resurrectionist, one of a select group of people who can not only remember their past lives, but become them. Two groups are now after his services—the Sojourn corporation, which wants to exploit his powers for mysterious purposes, and a motley crew of modern-day tomb robbers who have been trying to pull the same impossible heist for 3,000 years—and if Jericho joins them, he may steal back his own future![/quote]
Ça a l’air plutôt intéressant, tant sur le pitch (qui lorgne quand même du côté d’Assassin’s Creed, mais en même temps, pourquoi ce privé d’un concept aussi riche de possibilités ?) que les dessins.
STORY BY
Fred Van Lente
ART BY
Maurizio Rosenzweig, Moreno Dinisio
COLORS BY
Moreno Dinisio
COVER BY
Juan Doe
PUBLISHER
Dark Horse Comics
COVER PRICE:
$3.50
RELEASE DATE
Wed, December 24th, 2014
Jericho Way is a Resurrectionist, a unique person who can unlock the memories and abilities of his past lives. The architect-turned-thief is on the verge of sparking the connection to his own history with the help of an enlightened Resurrectionist called the Scout, but time is short. The evil Sojourn corporation is wise to their actions and will stop at nothing to destroy their plans to complete a heist three thousand years in the making.
[quote]Resurrectionists #6
STORY BY Fred Van Lente
ART BY Maurizio Rosenzweig, Moreno Dinisio
COLORS BY Moreno Dinisio
COVER BY Juan Doe
PUBLISHER Dark Horse Comics
COVER PRICE:$3.50
The entire team of Resurrectionists has been unlocked, but Lennox is closing in on them. If they want to defeat him, prevent their own deaths, and stop the cycle they’ve been stuck in for thousands of years, they’ll need to pull off an impossible heist as the Sojourn Corporation, a gang of angry criminals, and the NYPD bear down on them. Can Jericho Way and his team steal the past to fight the future?[/quote]
