THE POWER AND THE GLORY
A female superhero for a new age in a deluxe hardcover edition
Glory
is a force of the supernatural — half Amazon, half demon, she wields
fearsome power in the service of what she hopes is right. After her
heroics in World War II, she became a symbol of hope and justice,
inspiring old and young around the world. And then she disappeared.
The April hardcover graphic novel from Image Comics GLORY: The Complete Saga by Joe Keatinge (HELL YEAH, Morbius: The Living Vampire) and Ross Campbell (Wet Moon, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
tells the complete story of a young woman’s quest to find Glory and
bring her back into a world that needs her. But what Riley doesn’t
anticipate is that the global conspiracy that has kept Glory hidden for
decades could make Glory’s re-emergence more dangerous than anything
else the world has known.
Widely
praised for being grounded in relationships even as the conflict
stretches far beyond the realm of earthly reality and for Campbell’s
revolutionary character design, GLORY presented a new and wholly fresh
vision of the female superhero for the 21st century.
Created
in 1995 by one of the Image Comics founders, Rob Liefeld, GLORY
received a contemporary reimagining in 2012 with a new comic book series
that ran for twelve issues. Those issues are now being collected into
GLORY: The Complete Saga,
a 352-page hardcover tome due in comic book stores on April 23 and
bookstores on May 6. The deluxe oversized edition includes
never-before-seen sketches, scripts, commentary, interviews, and a
stunning wraparound cover with art by Campbell.
A necessity in any forward-looking superhero fan’s collection, GLORY: The Complete Saga is available for pre-order now.
GLORY: The Complete Saga by Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell
Praise for GLORY:
“Keatinge
and Campbell beautifully craft a compelling reintroduction to the
character of Glory, seen through the eyes of Riley Barnes. When Riley
finds Glory hiding and healing from injuries… she soon discovers that
she may be destined not to save Glory, but to save the world from the
uncontrollable anger of a woman created to be a weapon to end a war by
beings far more powerful than anything on Earth by destroying both
sides. Campbell's art is stunning, creating a female hero who is
physically intimidating in a way never seen in superhero comics and
creating worlds both familiar and fantastically bizarre, and characters
ranging from friendly old French bartenders to armies of individually
distinct demon-like creatures from another world. Keatinge's story gives
instant depth to its complex characters and excels at slowly presenting
a more and more complex narrative spanning thousands of years and
several worlds and cultures.”
–Publishers Weekly
“Some of the most innovative and ballsy work comics has seen for a long time. This is a re-launch, people.”
–Kelly Thompson, Comic Book Resources
“What [Keatinge and Campbell] do in this book, and more importantly the way they do it, feels like something bold and new and different…. It feels like what’s next.”
–Chris Sims, Comics Alliance
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ABOUT IMAGE COMICS
Image
Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a
collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become
one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image
currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd
McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major
houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline,
Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in
nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science
fiction, fantasy, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction,
humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium
today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.
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