Geekscape Comics: Grant Morrison’s ‘Annihilator’ Gets A Release Date!

Briefly: All the way back in July of last year, Legendary Comics debuted the awesome cover art for Grant Morrison and Frazer Irving’s Annihilator.

Since then, we haven’t heard too much about the project… until today, when Legendary announced the book’s release date, and debuted its first interior art.

Issue one (of six) of Annihilator will span 40 pages and release on September 4th, 2014, while Legendary’s original A Town Called Dragon by Judd Winick (Batman, Green Lantern) and Geoff Shaw will begin its five-issue run on September 24th.

Here’s the synopsis for Annihilator:

Hellraising screenwriter Ray Spass has one last chance to restore himself to former glory as he struggles to write a new studio tent-pole movie, Annihilator. The film centers around the adventures of Max Nomax, a sci-fi anti-hero caught in an epic struggle against the authoritarian artificial life form Vada and it’s chief assassin, Jet Makro.

 

But when Max Nomax appears in real-life, Ray thinks it’s a side effect of the brain tumor he was recently diagnosed with. Despite all logic, Nomax is real, having escaped from an impossible prison with no memory. Ray’s tumor is the key—it contains all Nomax’s adventures, downloaded into Ray’s head before Nomax escaped.

 

Ray needs to finish his screenplay in order to get the information out of his head and shrink the tumor. Nomax needs Ray to finish his screenplay so he can remember who he is, what ultimate crime he has committed, how to defeat Vada and save the universe from annihilation – if the unstoppable Jet Makro doesn’t reach Nomax and Ray first.

Take a look at the first interior art from the book below, and let us know if you’ll be picking it up when it hits stores in September!