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En 2015, l’éditeur DC Comics publiera, via son label Vertigo, la première série régulière intégralement conçue par l’artiste Lee Bermejo (Joker, Batman: Noël).
Comparé à des films comme Mad Max et Escape From New York, Suiciders raconte l’histoire de deux villes fondées après un cataclysme naturel, New Angeles et** Lost Angeles**, et du jeu de gladiateur qui s’y déroule.
[quote] In the post-apocalyptic city of New Angeles, killing isn’t just a crime – it’s entertainment.
When the “big one” finally hit the West Coast, Los Angeles was left in ruins. And when the U.S. government decided to cut the city loose, things went from bad to worse. To survive, L.A. did what it does best: It turned survival into entertainment.
Now, thirty years later, the city of New Angeles is thriving once more thanks to the blood sport known as SUICIDERS – a TV series that combines the spectacle of hand-to-hand combat with elaborate, high-tech obstacles that test each competitor’s ability to survive. But these competitors have an edge: They’ve been freakishly enhanced by drugs and technology. The results are both marvelous and monstrous, as the man called The Saint begins to rise above his fellow Suiciders.
SUICIDERS is a dark, post-apocalyptic epic that tells the story of a strange, brutal world, written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, the #1 New York Times best-selling writer/artist behind JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL, LUTHOR and BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH.[/quote]
[quote]The Saint is the best of the best. He’s basically the Michael Jordan of this sport. He is a character that comes into the story already at the top of his game. And he very much has everything at his fingertips but things very quickly start to crumble for him.
There is another character that is introduced in the second issue that is an immigrant that wants to be the best of the best. He wants to be The Saint. You end up with two sides of the same coin with these two characters. Through the course of the story, you get to see how much of your soul that you are willing to give up to get what you want – from people that already have it to people that have nothing. That’s where you get to see the character-driven elements of the story.
I feel like if I have done my job, by the time you read the last issue of the first arc, you will want to go back and re-read the whole thing as there are so many layers.[/quote]
[quote]SUICIDERS #1
Story by Lee Bermejo
Art by Lee Bermejo
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, February 25th, 2015
In the post-apocalyptic city of New Angeles, killing isn’t just a crime – it’s entertainment.
When the “big one” finally hit the West Coast, Los Angeles was left in ruins. And when the U.S. government decided to cut the city loose, things went from bad to worse. To survive, L.A. did what it does best: It turned survival into entertainment.
Now, thirty years later, the city of New Angeles is thriving once more thanks to the blood sport known as SUICIDERS – a TV series that combines the spectacle of hand-to-hand combat with elaborate, high-tech obstacles that test each competitor’s ability to survive. But these competitors have an edge: They’ve been freakishly enhanced by drugs and technology. The results are both marvelous and monstrous, as the man called The Saint begins to rise above his fellow Suiciders.
SUICIDERS is a dark, post-apocalyptic epic that tells the story of a strange, brutal world, written and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, the #1 New York Times best-selling writer/artist behind JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL, LUTHOR and BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH.[/quote]
J’ai lu le numéro 1 avec beaucoup de difficultés. C’est beau mais ça ne gratte pas grand-chose et ça m’embête mais surtout je m’embête. Je n’irai pas plus loin que deux-trois numéros pré-commandés que pour ce Gladiator morderne.
[quote]Suiciders #2
Story by Lee Bermejo
Art by Lee Bermejo
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Mar 25th, 2015
MATURE READERS
More of the mystery behind The Saint is revealed as a new challenger rises in Lost Angeles – the near-future dystopian hell created by fan-favorite Lee Bermejo (JOKER, BATMAN: NOEL).[/quote]
[quote]Suiciders #3
Story by Lee Bermejo
Art by Lee Bermejo
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Apr 22nd, 2015
MATURE READERS ONLY
After an investigative journalist is mysteriously killed on his glittering estate, the darkest secret of the Saint is about to be revealed. Meanwhile, the young challenger Straniero begins his bloody climb out of the hardscrabble streets of Lost Angeles.[/quote]
Description: As the mysterious origin of the « Saint of Suicides » deepens, up-from-the-gutter challenger Straniero finally gets in the ring. But he’s not fighting in the sold-out arena in front of millions of adoring fans – he’s fighting The Beast in a life-or-death street brawl that will forever change his destiny.
[quote]Suiciders #5
Story by Lee Bermejo
Art by Lee Bermejo
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Jun 24th, 2015
MATURE READERS ONLY
The rising fighter Straniero gets a visit from Grayson, the king-making manager of The Saint…but is Grayson ready to punch Straniero’s ticket to the big time or just punch his ticket permanently? Find out in the penultimate issue of Volume 1![/quote]
[quote]Suiciders #6
Story by Lee Bermejo
Art by Lee Bermejo
Colors by Matt Hollingsworth
Letters by Jared K. Fletcher
Cover by Lee Bermejo
Publisher Vertigo
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Sep 9th, 2015
In the epic conclusion to the opening story arc, the secrets of the Saint of Suicides are finally revealed…in blood and fire! The up-and-comer Straniero finally gets what’s coming to him…and nothing will ever be the same.[/quote]