Image Comics Reveal Variant Covers For Kieron Gillen And Caspar Wijngaard’s ‘The Power Fantasy’ #1 And #2

Writer Kieron Gillen and artist Caspar Wijngaard‘s The Power Fantasy debuts this August and we get to see the covers adorning the first two issues by Wijngard, Stephanie Hans, Sweeney Boo, Tula Lotay (1:100 incentive cover) and Rian Hughes (a set of six 1:50 incentive covers which use a pantone inks to showcase the whole cast).

Speaking exclusively with io9/Gizmodo, Gillen said:

“If you’ve got a master designer and artist as part of the team, it was only right to create a showcase for how he sees the team—bold, modernist and with the power of pantone. When he asked us if we could use pantone inks, how could we say no? Meanwhile Tula is an artist who I’ve always adored, and jump at any chance for her to do a cover on one of our books. You always know that she’s going to really do a showcase for the vulnerability and beauty of the cast, and she’s absolutely done that with Masumi (aka Deconstructa) our tragic heroine. I adore it.

Our original cover leaned into the character drama of the book, but we realised it didn’t quite explain either the scale or the stakes of it. The Power Fantasy is unlike anything else on the shelves, and we wanted that first issue to make it clear. We’re here, and the stakes are everything.”

Here’s a reminder of what this new series will be about:

“A daringly uncompromising new superhero hero epic, The Power Fantasy offers an edge-of-your seat read in which every character is a nuclear weapon on the brink of detonation… And the entire planet is on high alert.

It’s a world where “Superpowered” has a specific meaning. It’s reserved solely for those with the destructive potential of the nuclear arsenal of the most powerful nations on Earth. There are presently six superpowered beings, and the future of the planet is reliant on them never, ever coming into conflict.”

The Power Fantasy #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, August 7th from Image Comics.