Where Have All the Good Guys Gone?
"WITH GREAT power? comes great corruption." Comes the tagline for Evil Heroes, the hot new series from Zenescope Entertainment that arrives with special variant covers by British comic book artist Ian Richardson.
In Evil Heroes superheroes are real. They walk the earth as gods among men. But that story about them being there to protecting mankind? That's just baloney for your sandwiches.
Written by Zenescope co-founder Joe Brusha with interior art by Eric J (Dr Who) this six issue series finds humanity slaves forced to serve their super powered masters. However, one group rises up to challenge their status quo. Whether they will succeed or simply push mankind closer to extinction remains to be seen... and read!
The cover featured here is British artist Ian Richardson who has been producing a number of covers for Zenescope this year.
His ability to exaggerate larger than life scenarios and bring them down to a human level through visual characterisation. Previously he has commented his influences as being "John Buscema, John Byrne, Neal Adams and the much forgotten and under-appreciated Ross Andru". Despite mention of these American icons he has worked for Britain's leading sci-fi comic, 2000AD from drawing one-off Future Shocks to the Sinister Dexter series and lead character Judge Dredd himself.
Superhero fans will remember his work on the Image series Noble Causes but you won't have seen his
Cowboys & Aliens book for Platinum Editions, that alas never came out project although the Hollywood movie came and went, and he also produced Final Orbit for that company.
More recently Richardson has been working for Dark Horse, illustrating Halo, based on the science fiction video game. Working on licensed properties comes with its own set of of rules.
"A totally different discipline," he noted. "Still enjoyable and creatively satisfying but a little stricter I guess because of having to adhere to the source material. I came in at the end of the book's run actually as it was winding down because of its tie-in with the Halo 5 game. I think there are rumours of a new Halo book coming up at Dark Horse in the future so you can count on me pestering them for more work!"
Ian Richardson is also busy involved developing another project, a superhero based one again, titled The Unthinkables, alongside producing covers for Zenescope. We are privileged here at COMIC TIME to show you both the finished colour version of his cover for Evil Heroes #3 currently on sale, alongside his pencil and inked version.
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