Skullkickers Get Mighty

Skull-kicking needs to get amped up sometimes. Sometimes, it needs to be mighty, as in Mighty Skullkickers #1 from Image Comics. And being amped up means having a fresh start as well.

"After twenty issues of critically-acclaimed bone-busting adventure, we felt it was important to re-remind retailers and readers that Skullkickers is the most enjoyable adventure series in the whole crazy comic industry,” said Image PR and Marketing Director Jennifer de Guzman. "And when you need people to take notice, you reboot that $#%@ just like the big boys do.”

The issue is written by Jim Zub and illustrated by Edwin Huang, continuing the six-arc Skullkickers storyline. It's a restart of sorts that hits stores April 24.
"Some jokes get funnier with time. Some adjectives describe a concept perfectly. When we sat down and discussed the ideas at the heart of Skullkickers, we realized all along it should have been called 'Mighty'” says series creator Jim Zub. "Also, sales. Dirty, dirty sales.”

Full press release below.

NO REST FOR THE MIGHTY THE MIGHTY SKULLKICKERS #1 has "#1" on the cover Berkeley, CA - January 11, 2013 - This April, Image Comics invites readers to keep jumping on board action and adventure with a big ol' adjective shuffle in – THE MIGHTY SKULLKICKERS! "After twenty issues of critically-acclaimed bone-busting adventure, we felt it was important to re-remind retailers and readers that Skullkickers is the most enjoyable adventure series in the whole crazy comic industry,” said Image PR and Marketing Director Jennifer de Guzman. "And when you need people to take notice, you reboot that $#%@ just like the big boys do.” MIGHTY SKULLKICKERS #1, written by commercial sell-out Jim Zub and drawn by the young and impressionable Edwin Huang, continues the epic six-arc Skullkickers storyline. It's good stuff. Really good. Tell your friends. "Some jokes get funnier with time. Some adjectives describe a concept perfectly. When we sat down and discussed the ideas at the heart of Skullkickers, we realized all along it should have been called 'Mighty'” says series creator Jim Zub. "Also, sales. Dirty, dirty sales.” If you're a diehard collector of SKULLKICKERS who's sad that you won't have a SKULLKICKERS #21 to add to your collection? Don't worry, we've thought of everything. In addition to the regular "Mighty” cover we're offering a special "issue #21 variant” B cover to make sure your collector streak is unbroken. It's back. It never left. It's a restart that continues right where it left off. MIGHTY SKULLKICKERS #1 will be available wherever kick-ass comics are sold on April 24! Pre-order it now from the February issue of Previews. 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.