First Look: ‘Creature Corps’ From Image Comics

by Olly MacNamee

First announced exclusively at IGN, writer Curt Pires (Fireborn, Lost Fantasy) and up-and-coming artist JOK (51, In Hell We Fight) have come together to produce a new ongoing series, Creature Corps, launching this December from Image Comics. A series that evokes the 1990s creature-battling with a satirical bent, much like that of The Boys.

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“In 1999, time broke and the Calamity Creatures arrived. Creatures from a desolate tomorrow, it took mankind no time to start battling them, and even less time for it to turn into the largest for profit sporting event since the UFC: Creature Corps.

Dusty Gotem was 14 years old when he became Creature Corps world champion … and then walked away in disgust. Seventeen years later, he’s in hiding — until a time quake strikes and leaves his mother injured with massive medical bills.

There’s only one way to save her: reunite his team and become Creature Corps world champion again. Let the games begin.”

Pires, fast becoming one of the hardest-working writers in comics, said of this new series:

“I’m beyond grateful that retailers and readers made Fireborn one of the biggest books of the spring, and now I’m ecstatic to be back at image comics with Creature Corps to lay claim to the winter. This is a big bold audacious idea that unites ’90s nostalgia with deconstructionist satirical insanity. And we’ve got it all: a giant sized first issue for just $4.99, a TCG component, and a stunning array of covers from industry leading artists. Creature Corps is just getting started. Jump aboard.”