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The Massive-Verse San Diego Comic-Con [SDCC] 2023 exclusive promotional poster (2023)

Art by: Eduardo Ferigato and Igor Monti

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Out this week: Super Massive (Image, $5.99):

Kyle Higgins, Ryan Parrott, Melissa Flores and Mat Groom, the architects behind the Massive-Verse collection of titles like Radiant Black and Rogue Sun, team up for a “one-shot crossover.” Drawn by Daniele Di Nicuolo and Walter Baiamonte, the story features several of the Massive-Verse characters seeking the Holy Grail.

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Out this week: No/One #1 (Image, $3.99):

The Massive-verse adds a new character, No/One, in this true crime/superhero mash-up that also has an accompanying podcast and an in-universe Twitter feed. The miniseries is by Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato and Geraldo Borges.

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Inferno Girl Red: Book One #2 (2023)

Art by: Valeria Favoccia

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Out this week: Inferno Girl Red #1 (Image, $5.99):

Mat Groom and Erica D’Urso team for this Massive-verse series that started life on Kickstarter. It’s about a girl who must take up the mantle of Inferno Girl Red after an ancient cult and their army of demons rip the city she just moved to out of our universe and cast it into darkness.

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Out this week: Radiant Pink #1 (Image, $3.99):

The Massive-verse — that’s the collection of titles headed up by Kyle Higgins that includes Radiant Black, Inferno Girl Red and Rogue Sun, among others — goes social in this new series by Meghan Camarena, Melissa Flores and Emma Kubert. It’s about a streamer who features guest appearances by the teleporting superhero Radiant Pink, but not all the attention garnered by the new hero is positive. 

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[PREVIEW] Radiant Black #1 (February 10, 2021)

writer: Kyle Higgins | artist: Marcelo Costa | letters: Becca Carey | designer Michael Busuttil | cover A artist: Michael Cho | cover B artist: Eduardo Ferigato [pencils & inks] and Marcelo Costa [colors] | cover D (1:10 incentive) artist: Marcelo Costa | cover E (1:25 incentive): David Finch [pencils], Jimmy Reyes [inks] & Marcelo Costa [colors] | publishing company: Image Comics

synopsis: Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty, and things aren't great: He's working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move... is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers and unlocks the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes! There's just one problem: The powers don't belong to him. And the COSMIC BEINGS who created them want them back... by any means necessary.

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writer Kyle Higgins (Rise of Ultraman, BOOM! Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers & C.O.W.L.) and artist/colorist Marcelo Costa ( Self/Made) team up for Radiant Black, a creator-owned tokusatsu-inspired superhero series from Image Comics in February, 2021

the series follows Nathan Burnett, a down-on-his-luck writer who, after returning to his hometown, randomly encounters a tiny black hole that transforms him into a masked, telekinetic avenger. 

Image Comics describes the comic: "For fans of INVINCIBLE and POWER RANGERS comes a brand-new ONGOING SERIES from acclaimed writer KYLE HIGGINS and artist MARCELO COSTA that reinvents superheroes for a new generation! Nathan Burnett has just turned thirty, and things aren’t great: He’s working (and failing) at two jobs, his credit card debt is piling up, and his only move…is moving back home with his parents. But when Nathan discovers and unlocks the ethereal, cosmic RADIANT, he's given the power to radically change his fortunes! There’s just one problem: The powers don’t belong to him. And the COSMIC BEINGS who created them want them back...by any means necessary." 

In an interview at io9, Higgins said the comic was borne out of his interest in Japanese sci-fi film and TV, which he’d explored while writing “Power Rangers” for BOOM! Studios, and “The Rise of Ultraman” for Marvel. “The more I’ve familiarized myself with their different storytelling conventions, scope, and themes, the more I’ve found myself thinking about how those elements cross over with what we — in America — traditionally think of as superheroes,” he said. He then pitched the concept to Image publisher Eric Stephenson during a conversation about doing something brand new in the superhero genre.

He also said the book is inspired by his personal life, elaborating, “Nathan’s situation is something I relate to on a variety of levels — getting into your 30s and feeling like you’re not on the right path, or not even knowing what the right path is, I think is incredibly relatable. Or at least, it’s something I’ve struggled with quite a bit over the years. I’ve worked very hard, but I’ve also been very lucky. I’m doing OK, but I’m nowhere near where I’d like to be. I have debt, failures and plenty of insecurities. In 2016, after a bad breakup, I moved back home for a bit, too. While this isn’t a story about me, there’s a lot of me in this story. Down to Nathan’s hometown also being Lockport, Illinois.”

Costa said, “‘Radiant Black’ has two things that I love — superheroes and Sentai. When Kyle told me he wanted to mix these two worlds, it was immediately interesting to me.” Regarding the title hero’s look, he said he “feel that a good superhero design needs to be modern, simple and unique, the idea has always been that Radiant Black could be both an urban hero battling bank robbers in the city as well as a galactic warrior who battles alien threats. The design had to have characteristics that would work for both. We worked on several concepts and several different suits, but none gave us the result we wanted. It was only when I abandoned all previous ideas and started over that Radiant Black really came to life. It was an incredible moment.”