Image Comics Announces Dark Vision Quest Series ‘Junior Baker the Righteous Faker’

by Olly MacNamee

Writer Joe Casey (Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker) up and coming artist Ryan Quackenbush are producing a sequel to Casey’s aforementioned comic book series with the dark, five-issue miniseries, Junior Baker the Righteous Faker, first announced in The Hollywood Reporter. Coming over a decade since Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker, each issue will be 30 pages of story and comes out in September.

“In Junior Baker the Righteous Faker, readers will meet Daniel “Dizzy” Baker, a gonzo journalist chasing superhuman news items in a world that’s left superheroes behind. Stumbling onto the ultimate story, Baker embarks on a personal vision quest where his past and his future will inevitably and violently collide.”

Speaking of the sequel Casey said:

“Lately, I’ve been asking myself a lot of questions about my own relationship with the superhero genre, something I’ve been associated with professionally for over twenty-five years. Did it still speak to me? Did it still hold the same kind of relevance as it did when I was just a fan? How many other readers of my generation were feeling this ambivalence to something that meant so much to us since we were kids? Doing this kind of sequel series confronts some those questions. So both conceptually and narratively, it’s a really big swing we’re taking here. Not to mention, Ryan is a brave, new talent and his art on this alone is worth the price of admission.”

Newbie to comics, Quackenbush, added:

“I’m very excited for people to read this. Creatively, Joe and I have been on the same page since the very start, although I never knew what I was going to draw as each script came to me. As I found myself in the middle of drawing this book, going down Joe’s crazy paths with him, meeting these unpredictable characters, I could relate to Dizzy. Always looking for answers and trying to make the best of things. Messing things up in the process. No matter how weird it got, or where we took it, there were very human emotions at the heart of it and I hope everyone feels that in the midst of all the bizarre.”