Image Comics announced a profusion of new creator-owned titles from well-known creators including Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, Darwyn Cooke, Brian Wood, Chip Zdarsky, and more; as well as a new monthly comics magazine, The Island.

Scott Snyder (Batman, Wyches) will partner with Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Green Arrow, Animal Man) for A.D.: After Death, which launches in November.  The story is set in the near future where death has been cured, and one man must come to terms with what that means.

Another Lemire project is Plutona, which is written by Lemire with art by Emi Lenox and colorist Jordie Bellaire.  The story is a meditative tale on morality and the nature of friendship, where five children alone in the woods find the body of their world’s greatest superhero.

Darwyn Cooke (DC: The New Frontier) will debut Revengeance, his first fully creator-owned property since Parker, in June. The mini-series is a darkly humorous psychological thriller about a  plot to right a wrong after a criminal tragedy.

Brian Wood (Star Wars, DMZ, Northlanders) will return to the Viking genre for Black Road.  Wood will partner with The Massive collaborator Garry Brown (Iron Patriot) on a tale set in Viking Age Norway, where a fixer for the Christian Church loses a Roman official to bandits.

Wood will also team with Danijel Zezelj (Northlanders, Loveless) and Dave Stewart (The Walking Dead, Star Wars) for Starve.  The series is set in a near-future where celebrity chefs are kings, and the reality programs they star in have taken a very dark turn.  Chef Gavin Cruikshank comes back from a self-imposed exile to find his show "Starve" has become a gonzo arena game where chefs serve rare species to super-rich patrons.

Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals, Howard the Duck) will partner with artist Kagan McLeod (Infinite Kung Fu) for the new ongoing series Kaptara which launches in April.  The story is about Keith Kanga, a young bio-engineer who ends up on a strange planet filled with weird danger.

Emma Rios (HEXED, 8House) and Brandon Graham (Prophet) are spearheading a new monthly comic magazine called The Island. The oversize, 72-page magazine will debut in June and feature prominent cartoon artists including Farel Dalrymple and Michael DeForge.  "The idea is to make longer-form stories in each issue than you get in many anthologies," explained Graham.  "The chapters will be 20 to 30 pages each.  So it will be like a bundle of several comics in one book."

The magazine will include comics, illustrations, and articles that blend prose and comics, fictional fashion, and mechanical designs for fantastical machines from other worlds.

Image also announced two new books by Brian K. Vaughan (see "Brian K. Vaughan Adds Two at Image"), and a new Skottie Young title (see "Skottie Young Launching Snarky Fairytale Satire at Image").