Tag: John Livesay

Marc Silvestri returns to ‘The Darkness’ in December

‘This isn’t just a nostalgia trip—it’s a reinvention.’

Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri will embrace The Darkness once again in December, as he returns to the series he co-created in 1996, promising “a thrilling expansion of The Darkness mythology with fresh twists to surprise even its most devoted fans.”

Ed Benes will draw the first issue, with inks from Matt “Batt!” Banning, Sal Regla and John Livesay; colors by Arif Prianto; and letters by Troy Peteri. Raymond Gay will take over interior art with issue #2.

“The Darkness has always been one of my favorite characters, and I’ve wanted to come back to it for a long time,” said Silvestri. “Fans have been asking for years when Jackie would return, and now we get to deliver something truly special. This is going to feel familiar, but it’s going to take you places you’ve never been before.”

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Jim Shooter returns to comics for ‘Slow City Blues’

Samuel Haine, Shawn Moll, John Livesay, JD Smith and Thomas Mauer tell the story of a detective trapped in his own mind.

Former Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter is helping to bring a ‘new ongoing genre-bending series’ to Image Comics next year, titled Slow City Blues.

Writer Samuel Haine, penciler Shawn Moll, inker John Livesay, colorist JD Smith and letterer Thomas Mauer tell the story Detective John Loris, “who gets trapped inside his imagination after accidentally killing a little girl in the line of duty,” the press release reads. “After trying to take his own life, John instead ends up in Slow City, a construct of his mind’s eye, a place where anything and everything is possible, except a way out.”

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