Magma Comix Announces The First Two Series For Their 2024 Inaugural Release Slate
by Brendan M. Allen
Magma Comix has announced two new exciting series for 2024, The Principles Of Necromancy, beginning April 3, 2024, and Silicon Bandits, debuting the following week on April 10, 2024.
The Principles of Necromancy #1 features a script by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, art and main covers by Eamon Winkle, and variant covers by Jana Heidersdorf.
Magic does not exist.
The barbarian hordes have been driven by the City King to the edge of the world, ushering in an enlightened age of reason and medicine. In the dark woods, out of the City King’s reach, the last pagans keep their ancient ways. One man attempts to overcome death itself with a “medical miracle.” God help the man or king who stands in his way.
Behold the glorious and gut-wrenching work of Doctor Jakob Eyes, the world’s first necromancer.
“The Principles of Necromancy is our first creator-owned comics series since 2016 – and it came out of a mutual hunger to tell a fantasy narrative while also being birthed through a wide-ranging discussion about the ways magic is approached in such settings,” said Lanzing and Kelly of the series. “We talked a lot about the strange figure that a doctor cuts in our own lives – that help you hope you never need – and thought what it might look like to turn that character into an iconic wizard-esque figure in a setting bereft of magic.
“If you only know us from our work at Marvel and DC, I think Principles of Necromancy should feel like a natural evolution. It’s our character-oriented horror from One Bad Day: Clayface mixed with the strange sadness and surreal world building from our Guardians of the Galaxy. But this is also a world unlike any we’ve played in before – closer to Conan or Berserk than to our creator-owned pop albums like Joyride. It’s a whole new flavor for the Hivemind – and one we’re having a ton of fun putting together.”
Silicon Bandits is written by Jason Starr, with art and main covers by Dalibor Talajić, and variant covers by Goran Parlov.
In a tale with enough twists and turns to fry your circuits, betrayal and sentience emerge in equally devastating turns. In a near future setting, automation has caused mass employment. Programmers Kenji and Aurora seem safe… until they’re suddenly fired. The couple hatches a plan out of desperation. They will assemble the perfect heist crew out of androids they programmed.
“Like a lot of people, I’m fascinated by artificial intelligence and all of the ethical and legal issues the tech raises, and I felt that telling a crime story with android criminals would be an exciting and compelling way into exploring these themes” said Starr. “I’ve been telling people that Silicon Bandits is Blade Runner meets Ocean’s Eleven, which pretty much describes the tone and vibe that artist Dalibor Talajic and I are going for with this book.”
“You might say I am the William Shatner of comics,” added Talajić. “Put me on anything and I’ll have the time of my life doing it.”
Stay tuned for more announcements in the coming days.
