Dark Horse Comics is launching a new action/adventure line of comic books in the summer of 2003.  Edited by Dave Land, the first wave of Rocket Comics will consist of six titles, launching at a rate of two per month starting in July with Lone and Go Boy 7.  Lone is a Mad Max-style western written by Stuart Moore with art by Jerome Opena, while Go Boy 7, written by Tom Peyer with art by Jon Sommariva, is a science fiction tale about the exploits of Jonny Zero, a boy whose life is saved by an injection of robotic nanoplasm, which turns him into one powerful cyborg.

 

The two August titles are Syn and Hell--one leads right to the other.  Keith Giffen is writing Syn, which is the saga of a robot bounty hunter on the run with art by Greg Titus.  Brian Augustyn does the writing on Hell (art by Skottie Young), which features a lad who ends up on a sort of Island of Dr. Moreau run by the government.

 

The September titles continue the science fiction trend evident in the previous Rocket Comics' releases.  Galactic, written by Jim Krueger with art by Sanford Greene, centers around a boy who is pulled out of a normal existence to become part of an interplanetary police force, while Crush is the only one of the first six Rocket Comics titles to feature a female hero.  Jason Hall is penning this saga of an ordinary girl who undergoes an extraordinary transformation on her eighteenth birthday.