Image has two important hardcover graphic novel releases planned for May:  Reborn and A.D.:  After Death.  Reborn will collect issues #1-#6 of the Mark Millar – Greg Capullo science fiction series, in which an 80-year-old woman is reborn after death as a 25-year-old with a sword and a gun (see “Millar-Capullo Series Is ‘Reborn’”).  The 176-page hardcover will retail for $24.99. 

Reborn has been selling well, with the most recent issue, #3, selling over 36,000 copies in December (see “Top 300 Comics – December 2016”), which made it the third best-selling Image title that month, after The Walking Dead and Saga.

A.D.:  After Death will collect the three volumes of comics, prose, and illustration by Scott Snyder and Jeff Lemire into one hardcover volume.  The story is set in a future where a genetic cure for death has been found.  The 224-page volume is in a larger trim size, 8.375” x 10.1875”, but will also retail for $24.99.

Film rights to the property have already been acquired (see “Sony Acquires Film Rights for ‘A.D.:  After Death’”).