Explore THE HIGH WAYS with John Byrne!
Friday, Nov 2nd, 2012
IDW Announces New Creator-Owned Series from the Comics Legend!
San Diego, CA
(November 2, 2012) – Continuing their ongoing partnership
with legendary comics creator John Byrne, IDW
Publishing is beyond pleased to announce THE HIGH
WAYS, a brand-new, starbound adventure series written and
drawn by Byrne!
THE HIGH WAYS follows the exploits of a spirited
young man named Eddie Wallace. Hungry for the brand of wild
adventure only available off-planet, Eddie joins up with a crew of
a rock-hopping freighter, eager to see what lies beyond the clouds.
As these things tend to go, however, everything in these early days
of interstellar travel isn’t quite what it seems as intrigue
and mystery abound.
“This evolved into something a bit more like Dan
Dare, the British sci-fi strip so beloved from my childhood
and early teens. I liked the idea of playing in that “old
time sci-fi” kind of milieu, where all the adventures took
place within the Solar System, and where life — even
intelligent, humanoid life — was to be found
everywhere,” said Byrne before adding an
extra tidbit for his fans. “I decided this takes place in the
Next Men “universe” -- though in the altered timeline
our heroes created when they wiped out Project Next Men. The time
is eighty or ninety years in the Future, roughly, and a central
character of the first arc is Eddie Wallace, who appeared briefly
in the previous series.”
Another in a long line of fruitful partnerships with the iconoclastic Byrne, IDW is immensely proud of THE HIGH WAYS’ high adventure and exciting future series yet to come!
“I’ve found John Byrne’s boundless creativity, wealth of ideas and his ability to consistently deliver high-quality comics on time to be pretty much unmatched over the course of our six-plus years of working together,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer/Editor-in-Chief, “and I’m happy to continue that with The High Ways. 2013 is going to be a big year for John Byrne and IDW, with John prepping two new series to roll out later in ’13 as well.”
THE HIGH WAYS #1 (of 4) (FC, 32 pages, $3.99) in stores 1/16/13.
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About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; Toho’s Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, while Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.
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