Image Goes Enormous

Humans are quite fond of their place at the top of the food chain. They're not necessarily stronger or fiercer than many animals, but what they lack in fighting prowess they more than make up for intelligence. It's that intelligence that the humans in Image Comics' new series Enormous will have to tap into.

"By the time we enter the world of Enormous, being at the bottom of the food-chain is something humans have been experiencing for a while," said Daniel. "As a result, there is no consensus around how we're going to survive as a species.

Written by Tim Daniel and illustrated by Mehdi Cheggour, Enormous features a cataclysmic event that has spawned colossal beasts that overrun human civilization. Cities are reduced to ruins where survivors must scratch out a desperate existence, evading the giant creatures that hunt them.

Ellen Grace lives in the middle of all this, a woman who's lost everything and is braving the streets to find lost children and bring them to a safe place.

"There are a few human factions, each operating with a fairly distinct agenda, the motivations of which may well be far beyond their understanding," he added. "Regardless of what might prove to be the driving force for each character, the law of the land is simple: hunt or be hunted."

Enormous #1 hits stores July 5 through the Shaowline imprint of Image Comics.

Full press release below.

HUMANS ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES IN ENORMOUS

Giant beasts top food chain in July graphic novella

In ENORMOUS, a new Image Comics/Shadowline graphic novella by Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour (Heavy Metal) to be published in July, a cataclysmic ecological event has spawned colossal beasts that overrun human civilization. Cities are reduced to ruins where survivors must scratch out a desperate existence, evading the giant creatures that hunt them.

In the midst of this struggle against annihilation, a young woman who has lost everything, Ellen Grace, braves the rubble-strewn streets to find lost children and bring them to a safe place. However, she soon finds that there is another enemy just as dangerous as the megafauna: other humans.

"By the time we enter the world of Enormous, being at the bottom of the food-chain is something humans have been experiencing for a while," said Daniel in an April interview with Comic Book Resources. "As a result, there is no consensus around how we're going to survive as a species. 

"There are a few human factions, each operating with a fairly distinct agenda, the motivations of which may well be far beyond their understanding," he added. "Regardless of what might prove to be the driving force for each character, the law of the land is simple: hunt or be hunted."

Drawn in terrifying and haunting detail by Cheggour, a Morroccan artist whose MORNING GLORIES fan art caught Daniel's attention, ENORMOUS is a 64-page saddle-stitched graphic novella in an oversized "treasury" format (10 x 13.5"). 

Published under Image's Shadowline imprint, ENORMOUS can be pre-ordered from the May issue of Previews (MAY120519) and is scheduled to be in stores on July 5. It has been supported by a campaign of "teasers" that appeared on top comic book sites such as Comic Book Resources, iFanboy, and Multiversity, a "prequel" and article published at USA Today, and a preview at the Gawker site io9.

ABOUT IMAGE COMICS

Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.