As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Michel Fiffe’s excellent self-published series Copra will meet its final fate in Death of Copra, a four-issue miniseries that kicks off In January.
“The whole thing is bittersweet, which is perfect in a way,” said Fiffe. “The story of Copra is one of duality: brutal but tender, bombast as defined by human nuance, crafted with a love of comics history while guided by an eye towards the future.”
The final miniseries will be published by Image Comics, rather than self-published by Fiffe. Image published the series for about six issues just prior to the pandemic, but Fiffe returned to self-publishing it for issues #38-45. Image continued to publish collections of the material.
This final miniseries will kick off with a 32-page issue written, drawn, colored and lettered by Fiffe.
“These characters have been through the wringer for a long time,” he said. “Some have their retribution and others get their comeuppance; all of these moments have been speeding towards this crucial home stretch. Although Copra has traditionally been a single ongoing narrative, this final arc deserved its own space to unfold.”
According to Image, Death of Copra will find the team “reckoning with a brand new status quo that’s forced upon them.” Would that be John Cena or James Gunn? I ask jokingly, as Copra is an analog of and tribute to the John Ostrander/Luke McDonnell Suicide Squad series.
Here’s a preview of the first issue:
Fiffe has created three additional covers for the first issue, and there’s also a variant by Jeff Lemire:
Look for the first issue of four to arrive Jan. 8.