SDCC 2024: Dynamite Gets Ready For ‘Fiberglass’
by Erik Amaya
Dynamite is planning for a future in Fiberglass.
Just before the doors opened on the first full day of Comic-Con International: San Diego 2024, the company revealed an ambitious new plan for a comic and franchise based on an idea from Kyle Allen, a veteran actor known for The Path and A Haunting in Venice, and director/producer Anders Ravenstad. Described as a “gut-wrenching, brain-melting, lovestruck tale of the world that exists just beyond our sight and just out of our reach,” Fiberglass centers on Cory Salamanca, who suffers a bad day in New York which, in turn, launches him into “the ancient and complicated web of crime that the city was secretly built upon.” His only hope: a group called Fiberglass. Their mission is to keep the gangs within Underground Empire at bay, but it may mean sacrificing Cory in the process.
As Dynamite CEO Nick Barrucci explained, “Comics are the perfect medium and platform to introduce everyone to Fiberglass, and the bounds of this world and characters on and off the page are limitless. They have created a rich and exciting world, [and] wanted to bring it to comics first and foremost.”
Joining Allen and Ravenstad on the journey through this complex vision of the city are writer Dennis Culver and artist Geoffo.
“Seven years of endlessly wandering New York City researching and reimagining it’s histories and mysteries, brought together by a truly incredible partnership with Anders Ravenstad, then cue about six false starts, countless rewrites,” Allen said of the development process. “Mix in the incredible team at Dynamite, the course-correcting wisdom of Dennis Culver, the visual super stardom that is Geoffo, and a literal village of dear friends contributing ideas and urging us not to give up…. that all brings you Fiberglass. Which is special to me not because I made it up, but because I can no longer tell which parts I made up. The theme of the story is how the story was made. ‘It’s only impossible when we do it alone.'”
Ravenstad added, “Kyle and I are creatives formed by our love of comics and introducing readers to our world through this medium is an absolute privilege. This is an insane, colorful, complex story and the tireless efforts made by Dennis, Geoffo, and the Dynamite Team to help bring this vision to life is nothing short of monumental. When I think of people devouring our comics in the same way I did so many others in my local comic shop, Fantasy Books and Games, I don’t know what to do with myself. Now that we’ve found our way to the other side of the page I’m overjoyed to finally say: Welcome to Fiberglass.”
According to Culver, there was also some serendipity at play. “During the development of this book we discovered by some magical stroke of luck that the three of us lived mere blocks from each other. It’s been an absolute pleasure meeting face to face and making comics together in our living rooms,” he said. “And just when I thought I couldn’t be any happier about this book, we brought in Geoffo on art! Geoffo and I have been great friends since we worked together on a book for Marvel, so much so that we’ve kept making books together! Having the chance to once more create comics with him makes my heart soar!”
Further details about the book will be revealed soon.
