Image Comics Delivers A Sneak Peek At ’90s Inspired ‘Blood Squad Seven’ #1
by Olly MacNamee
Blood Squad Seven is a new comic book series from Image Comics we helped to announce in February from writer Joe Casey (MCMLXXV, Butcher Baker the Righteous Maker) and artist Paul Fry. It’s a series that looks back at the bombastic ’90s superteam dynamics through a 21st-century lens and with plenty of hindsight. Spinning out of the recent Dutch miniseries, this new mini hits shelves this May with special cameos from various Image Comics characters who helped define this era.
“Thirty years ago, Blood Squad Seven was America’s most popular superhero team. Its members were seen on television, on magazine covers, scoring million-dollar endorsement deals…. They were celebrities and they were everywhere.
But that was then… this is now. And so, a new generation of modern-day heroes takes up the mantle—or perhaps, the poisoned chalice—fulfilling a promise made decades ago: to be the heroes that a fractured America needs.
While deconstructions of superhero nostalgia typically center around the classic characters of the Silver Age, Blood Squad Seven will delve deep into ’90s comic book themes with this reimagining of what would happen if heroes from that decade returned to action after a 30-year absence.”
Blood Squad Seven #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, May 22nd and features the following covers:
- Cover A by Paul Fry
- Cover B by Chris Weston
- Cover C (1:10) by Nick Pitarrra
- Cover D (1:20) by Jim Rugg
- Cover E (1:50) by Fry
