Oni Press has announced Super Mondo Mega Mutts, a four-issue series by writer Curt Pires and artist Juan Gedeon. The miniseries will kick off in July.
The series is set in downtown Los Angeles one year after a fragment of an inter-dimensional civilization collided with the city, creating a lawless zone called “The Gleam” where the laws of physics no longer apply. When government contractors send four research animals into the area to recover alien technology, the dogs emerge radically transformed, gaining human-level intelligence and a mission of their own. The four mutts — Wolf, Frankee, Griffy and Freddy — team with a mentor called Mojo to fight back against federal forces and gangs wielding stolen alien tech.
“It’s been thrilling to watch Oni Press reach new heights the last couple years under the tenure of Hunter [Gorinson, President & Publisher], Sierra [Hahn, Editor-in-Chief] and the whole team—and I couldn’t be more excited to be bringing them one of my best ideas ever,” Pires said. “This is a book that is big, bombastic and heartfelt, one that’s capable of bringing new folks into comic shops—and I’m ecstatic to be creating it with my masterful collaborator, Juan Gedeon.”
Gedeon’s recent credits include the also anthropomorphic DC: The Jurassic League and COW-Boys of Moo Mesa, while Pires has been busy with Lost Fantasy and its spin-off Fireborn at Image Comics.
“Super Mondo Mega Mutts is the kind of book I grew up loving and dreaming about making,” Gedeon said. “It’s loud, weird, funny, and full of heart, with characters you want to protect even when they’re causing chaos. Working with Curt and the team at Oni Press has been a blast, and they’ve given us room to go big and take risks. I’m excited for readers to finally see these dogs unleashed and tearing through the page.”
Here’s a look at some of Gedeon’s uncolored interior artwork:
Super Mondo Mega Mutts #1 arrives in comic shops in July.