NEW TITLE ANNOUNCEMENT: A RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE

A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance. The new title will be an ongoing series involving a murder mystery and a fight against a powerful enemy. Screen Rant has an exclusive preview of this series from the creative team of Rick Remender, André Araújo, and Chris O'Halloran.

When an unassuming man stumbles upon a dark-web contract assassin's vicious plot to kill an innocent target, he turns himself into one. The Professional meets Road to Perdition in this story of a family's unlikely guardian being hunted by rich and powerful men who are used to getting away with everything.

Rick Remender will be penning this series. For Image Comics, he has written The Scumbag, Deadly Class, and Black Science. He has also written comics for Dark Horse and Marvel, which include Venom, Gigantic, Punisher, Fear Agent, and Captain America. André Araújo was the artist on Generation Gone and Man Plus for Image Comics. He has also provided art for Marvel titles that include Black Panther: Long Live the King, Avengers a.I., and Edge of Venomverse. Now the two will join forces with Chris O'Halloran on A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance, coming October 2021. Check out this exclusive preview and comments from the creative team below:

Rick Remender, the series writer, stated, "After years of wanting to work with André I couldn't be more excited to get this into the world. It's a decompressed atmosphere story unlike anything we've ever done before and the exact type of methodical crime book I've always wanted to do."

André Araújo, the series artist, stated, "When Rick and I finally got together after years of planning it, we knew we had to try and push for something special. Our storytelling approach, a decompressed and carefully crafted narrative, became our key to do just that. This is something I've always dreamed of doing and I'm beyond thrilled to share this with everyone else."

This Image Comics preview features a man who currently has no revealed name, in British Columbia. He walks out from a stairwell located next to a shop where he encounters an elderly couple briefly, before getting on a bus. Already there are some very mysterious vibes as he reads about a sex trafficking case on his phone, all of which provides some hints that this is rather suspicious. Most likely this will be the unassuming man whose life is about to become very complicated and dangerous. This comic is being compared to the 1994 film, The Professional, in which a hitman takes in a young girl who becomes an apprentice of sorts. It also strikes a comparison with Road to Perdition, drawing another parallel between organized crime and family. This man's foes are likely richer, more powerful, and threatening than he currently appears, though that early assumption is likely to change once the series is underway and readers find out more about who he is and what he can do. A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance from Image Comics will begin releasing on October 13, 2021.

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