The coolest sci-fi art you'll see all summer is in the Image Comics & # 39; Hedra

If you want to see something cool this summer, grab a copy HedraA new wordless one-shot from Image Comics. Written and drawn by Jesse Lonergan (All Star, Joe site, Flower and Fade), It is better to explore the beautiful.

Hedra has a simple story, told only through pictures, but Lonergan told Polygon he wanted it that way. "The story (…) hearkens old space opera adventure stories of the 40s and 50s."

"A one astronaut left the country ravaged by nuclear war in search of life," said the official summary. "What he discovered is no longer in every sense."

The goal of Lonergan was to make the Visual Arts as much as possible. your typical comic hero usually has a panel per page four to six months, and if the creators really want to get a highbrow, they'll make the architecture based on a grid of nine. Hedra

"All Pages are based on fifty-seven grid square panel," Lonergan said igamesnews. "It's always been my wish that it started with that grid or event I would say. I'd like to start with more traditional panels and exchanges and then I would start trying and we could step it down, take them out, put them back in new ways. creativity still has to make sense. "

These four pages preview, provided by Image Comics, the only strategy weird and wild places Lonergan takes Hedra before its last page. Hedra hits the digital shelves and sells on July 29, 2020.

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