Dave Baker and Malachi Wardis will put a new spin on the ever-popular Golden Age superhero Stardust the Super Wizard in Citizen: Stardust, a new 12-issue series arriving in April 2027 from Oni Press.
Announced ahead of New York Comic Con, the series takes inspiration from the comics of Fletcher Hanks, who created Stardust in 1939. Baker and Ward’s story shifts the character, who is now in the public domain, into an alternate version of postwar America, where Stardust has become a major Hollywood property and the actor behind the superhero is facing a very different kind of reckoning.
“The probability of Stardust: The Super-Wizard becoming one of the most bizarre and unique comics to be published in 2027 seems extraordinarily high, to me,” Baker said. “Malachi Ward and I are bringing a new perspective to the superhero world informed by psychogeography, cult sacrifices, and technology beyond human comprehension. If that doesn’t make you want to read it? Just know that there’s a cat of nine tails made of human skulls.”
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