Ny serie fra Warren Ellis

Coveret til Black Summer #0Indrømmet, med Warren Ellis nuværende arbejdstempo kunne man skrive et indlæg med denne titel hver måned, men jeg blev da pænt interesseret i den kommende titel Black Summer da jeg læste det her interview:

BLACK SUMMER is about the final question of superhero fiction: where does a self-identified superhero draw the line at fighting crime? And I don’t mean the Punisher thing of let’s-just-kill-the-bad-guys, or the easy out of “corporations are criminals too.” I mean, where do you draw the line at defining a criminal? Where do you draw the line at pursuing a criminal act? If your ethical compulsion is to step outside the system of law to prosecute or avenge crime — what do you do in a country where your President can be said to have perpetrated an illegal war that’s claimed thousands of lives?

Black Summer er Ellis første creator-owned superhelteserie nogensinde, og da serien udkommer på forlaget Avatar, er der en god chance for at han har rimeligt frie tøjler. Serien er samtidig Avatars første superheltetitel.

CBR har også et interview med flere smugkig på tegningerne og mere om seriens handling fra Ellis mund:

First there were the Seven Guns: a group of young politically-aware scientist-adventurers who modified their own bodies for street-fighting in order to take back their West Coast city from a corrupt police force, criminal local government and rapacious private security forces. One died. One was crippled. The others drifted apart. And today, John Horus, the most committed of the original team, is walking into the White House. He’s worked with the President on social justice issues. He is the Good Guy. But he’s been thinking about his role in the country for a long time. And he’s not here to say hello.

Umiddelbart ser det ud til at serien lægger sig op af Transmetropolitans samfundskritik og The Authoritys ultravold i samme pakke, men det bliver spændende at se hvordan det endelige resultat bliver.
Serien skal i al fald nok skabe noget omtale, når den udkommer – det er ikke hver dag man ser USAs præsident elimineret af en superhelt, som har besluttet sig for at præsidenten er en skurk.