Chondra Echert (directrice de Evil Ink Comic) et Claudio Sanchez (leader du groupe Coheed and Cambria dont la série The Armory Wars est adaptée) puiseront dans leur expérience de couple avec Translucid, une mini-série en 6 numéros racontant la relation co-dépendante et auto-destructrice entre le super-héros The Navigator et son ennemi juré The Horse (à l’instar du duo Batman/Joker).
L’artiste Daniel Bayliss se chargera de la partie graphique de ce titre dont le premier numéro sortira en avril chez Boom! Studio. Ci-dessous, les couvertures de Jeff Stokely et Ming Doyle, deux pages du premier numéro et deux croquis de Dan Duncan:
[quote]TRANSLUCID #1
Story by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
Art by Daniel Bayliss
Cover by Jeff Stokely, Ming Doyle
Publisher Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, April 16th, 2014
WHY WE LOVE IT: Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert have given us such BOOM! Studios favorites as KILL AUDIO and KEY OF Z. Their latest book takes the superhero trope of “the neverending battle” and turns it into a completely different beast.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT: TRANSLUCID is the superhero story you’ve wanted but never thought you’d see. It explores the thin line between heroes and villains, and the space between childhood hope and loss.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The Horse has been the arch-enemy of The Navigator for years. But The Horse feels The Navigator’s moral compass slipping, and even a villain can’t let that happen. The Horse decides to get a closer look into The Navigator’s past that he’s buried deep in his subconscious and find out what drives a person to make the right choice, and what propels someone to make a selfish one. Thus begins an exploration of why a young man would take the mantle of a superhero.[/quote]
[quote]Translucid #2
Story by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
Art by Daniel Bayliss
Colors by Adam Metcalfe
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Jeff Stokeley, Felipe Smith
Publisher Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, May 21st, 2014
FROM ONE NIGHTMARE TO THE NEXT… Down the rabbit hole we go, straight into The Navigator’s dark past. What happened to a young dreamer that made him the hero he is now? No one is more curious than his arch-nemesis, The Horse. In the vein of IRREDEEMABLE, this is Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert’s dark take on the superhero’s journey![/quote]
[quote]Translucid #3
Story by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
Art by Daniel Bayliss
Colors by Adam Metcalfe
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Jeff Stokely, Felipe Smith
Publisher Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, June 18th, 2014
The Navigator, New York City’s only superhero, has been slipping. Could the secret be found in his childhood? Boy genius Cornelius is creating the holographic technology that allows him to become The Navigator. But what dark family secret drives him? From AMORY WARS and KEY OF Z authors Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert![/quote]
[quote]Translucid #4
Story by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
Art by Daniel Bayliss
Colors by Adam Metcalfe
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Jeff Stokely
Publisher Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, July 16th, 2014
As we dive deeper into The Navigator’s troubled past, things escalate between Cornelius and his father. While The Navigator is fighting off villains, Cornelius is battling his inner demons, which shape the hero he will become.[/quote]
STORY BY
Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
ART BY
Daniel Bayliss
COLORS BY
Adam Metcalfe
LETTERS BY
Ed Dukeshire
COVER BY
Jeff Stokley
PUBLISHER
Boom! Studios
COVER PRICE:
$3.99
RELEASE DATE
Wed, August 20th, 2014
The Navigator, New York City’s only superhero, has been slipping. Could the secret be found in his childhood? Boy genius Cornelius is creating the holographic technology that allows him to become The Navigator. But what dark family secret drives him? From AMORY WARS and KEY OF Z authors Claudio Sanchez and Chondra Echert![/quote]
[quote]Translucid #6
Story by Claudio Sanchez, Chondra Echert
Art by Daniel Bayliss
Colors by Adam Metcalfe
Letters by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Jeff Stokely
Publisher Boom! Studios
Cover Price: $3.99
Release Date Wed, September 17th, 2014
The Horse’s final play is here. He and The Navigator enter their final battle, and it takes place on a plane no one would expect! The most personal battle of all is here in the finale to this series and only one person is walking away from it![/quote]
