Geekscape Comics: Preview ‘Ballistic’ By Adam Egypt Mortimer And Darick Robertson!

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Black Mask Studios has a new sci-fi miniseries on the horizon, and it looks absolutely insane. Penned by Adam Egypt Mortimer (director of Grant Morrison’s Sinatoro), and featuring some incredible art by Darick Robertson (The Boys, Transmetropolitan, Punisher: Born), it’s easy to see from the preview pages that Ballistic is going to be a hit.

It’ll be a damn intriguing five issues as well. We asked Mortimer to fill us in on Ballistic‘s plot, and here’s what he had to say:

The book is something Darick and I have been discussing for years, ever since I sat with him in a pedicab on our way to see the Aquabats at comiccon and I said to him, “I want to do a comic that takes place in a near future world where all technology is alive, and the main character is a failed bank robber with a psychotic talking gun and a flying batwinged car.”. So the whole thing is like a totally crazed take in Lethal Weapon, on a reclaimed trash island near South Korea called Repo City State after the environmental collapse of the west.  The main character, Butch, totally blows a bank robbery attempt and then he and his gun get embroiled in crime lord warfare and a manufactured meltdown of the entire city.

Already sold on Ballistic? You haven’t even seen the preview pages! Take a look below at the art and series synopsis, and let us know what you think! Ballistic will run for five issues, with the first releasing on June 30th! Hmm… I wonder if these guys want to do a signing at the Geekscape SDCC booth…?

I told you the art was amazing. What I wouldn’t do for a print of this!

Welcome to Repo City State, where everyone’s an asshole – even the air conditioners.

Darick Robertson (Happy, The Boys, Transmetropolitan) and Adam Egypt Mortimer?s (director of Grant Morrison?s upcoming Sinatoro) madcap, psychedelic, transreal, utterly-wacko buddy adventure about Butch and his best friend Gun, a drug-addicted, genetically-modified, foul-mouthed firearm, as they attempt to elevate Butch from air conditioner repairman to master criminal in the twisted, post-eco-apocalyptic Repo City State, a reclaimed trash island built entirely from DNA-based, living technology with bad attitudes.

Ballistic marks Darick Robertson?s return to the hard sci-fi worldbuilding of his classic Transmetropolitan but mixed with The Boys? ultra-violence and the lunacy of Happy. Mortimer?s mix of speculative science, pulpy noire, and drug-addled adventure cooks up a strange brew of Lethal Weapon by way of Cronenberg meets Dr. Who if written by Odd Future.