Mark Millar (Kingsman: The Secret Service) will write a new series titled Huck, which he describes as “a Frank Capra superhero story… about a small town and a close-knight community and an amazing guy they just all want to shelter from the outside world.” The series will feature art by Rafael Albuquerque. Millar plans three six-issue story arcs.
Robert Kirkman will reboot his long-running series Invincible beginning with #124 in October. In the new storyline, Mark is back home without powers, but remembering everything he’s lived through. The same creative team (Kirkman, Ryan Ottley, Cliff Rathburn, and Jean-Francois Beaulieu) continues on the series.
Southern Bastards writer Jason Aaron is beginning The Goddamned, a new ongoing series with art by R.M. Guerra and colors by Giulia Brusco. The story is set in a world out of control with violence and depravity just before the Biblical flood.
Warren Ellis and artist Tula Lotay will team for a new series Heartless, "a modern folktale about love, revenge, and the deadly grip of the supernatural."
Gail Simone will write Crosswind, the story of a hitman from Chicago and a housewife from Seattle who switch lives, with art by Cat Staggs. Simone says of the series: "This is the comic that might make Dr. Werthan come back from the dead to try to ban comics again."
Breian Haberlin with write and draw Faster than Light, a new series premiering in September. This story of mankind’s first faster-than-light travel will feature additional content via Anomaly’s Augmented Reality app.
Greg Rucka will write and Nicola Scott will contribute the art for Black Magick, a new ongoing series launching in October. The story is "witch-noir," according to Rucka, and features a detective who’s a witch in Portsmouth.
Steven T. Seagle (Man of Action) and Jason Adam Katzenstein (New Yorker) have created Camp Midnight, a 256-page original graphic novel in which a camper is sent to a camp where everyone except for one fellow camper is a full-fledged monsters. It will release in October.
A new deluxe edition of The Other Side, by Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards) and Cameron Stewart, will be released by Image.
Image will collect Chynna Clugston Flores’ Blue Monday comics in a single large volume titled Blue Monday: Germfree Adolescents. Flores will also launch a new Blue Monday series, Blue Monday: Thieves Like Us, and a screwball comedy series, Scooter Girl.
Steve Orlando and JD Faith have collaborated on Virgil, a new "queersploitation" graphic novel set in Jamaica, launching in September.
Other series announced at Image Expo:
Axcend, written and drawn by Shane Davis, inked by Michelle Deleci, and colored by Morry Hollowell, will launch in October.
Codename Baboushka: The Conclave of Death, written by Antony Johnston, art by Shari Chankhamma, and letters by Simon Bowland, launching in October.
Cry Havoc, written by Simon Spurrier with art by Ryan Kelly, colors by Lee Loughridge and Matt Wilson, letters by Simon Bowland, and design by Emma Price.
Expired, a five-issue series written by Jimmie Robinson with art by Richard Pace.
Hadrian’s Wall, by Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Rod Reis, the team from C.O.W.L., will launch in November.
Sunset Park, a limited series by Ron Wimberly.
The One%, written by Kaare Kyle Andrews.
Ringside, written by Joe Keatinge, with art by Nick Barber, colors by Simon Gough, and letters by Ariana Maher, will launch in November.
Throwaways, written by Caitlin Kittredge with art by Steve Sanders.
