Electricomics will be a 32-page showcase with four very different original titles:
Big Nemo – set in the 1930s, Alan Moore revisits Winsor McCay’s most popular hero
Cabaret Amygdala – modernist horror from writer Peter Hogan (Terra Obscura)
Red Horse – on the anniversary of the beginning of World War One, Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) and Danish artist Peter Snejbjerg (World War X) take us back to the trenches
Sway – a slick new time travel science fiction story from Leah Moore and John Reppion (Sherlock Holmes – The Liverpool Demon, 2000 AD)
Two quick thoughts on this PR about the launch of the new digital comics app/imprint Electricomics:
- Only one artist is listed in that creative line-up. Is that because they only have one artist signed up, or is art that unimportant to the company?
- Of course Alan Moore is “revisiting” an existing character. For such an important, revolutionary comic creator, the extent to which Moore revamps existing properties instead of creating new ones is kind of amazing. Miracleman, Swamp Thing, Watchmen, Supreme (which is a one-two punch, considering the 1950s Superman tribute he turned the character into), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Lost Girls, and arguably Tom Strong and Promethea, as well… I’m sure I’ve forgotten some in there (Does From Hell count, in that he didn’t create the characters per se? Hmm). It’s oddly fascinating to me.