Image Comics and Curt Pires reunite for a spooky sci-fi mix between the Department of Truth and The Umbrella Academy. Get ready for Indigo Children.
In collaboration with Image Comics, YOUTH's Curt Pires and Alex Diotto will be bringing Indigo Children to comic store bookshelves starting this spring. Pires is best known for writing sci-fi classics like YOUTH, as well as Memoria, Wyrd, The Fiction, New America, Lost Falls, and It's Only Teenage Wasteland. Prior to Indigo Children, Diotto's last collaboration with Pires and Image Comics was the five-part epic Olympia.
Pires and Diotto venture into the science fiction genre once again to put a spotlight on Donovan Price, a journalist investigating the title characters, the Indigo Children, a gifted set of children who mysteriously disappeared fifteen years ago. Price is searching for them under the impression that they not only harness extraordinary abilities but may not even be from Earth. Pires and Diotto will be working with artist Dee Cunniffe (Runaways, Joe Fixit), letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (First Knife, Shanghai Red), and co-writer Rockwell White.The series will seemingly tap the classic concept of a journalist investigating the ever-expanding reality of an urban legend, but the comic makes it clear from the outset that the Indigo Children are very real and very powerful. It seems that as haunting as they are, the narrative will regard the Indigo Children with a somewhat sympathetic eye, as Pires discusses the supernatural kids in the same breath as comic series such as Umbrella Academy and X-Men - interestingly, books where the kids with powers are actively superheroes. However, it's clear from the off that this series will be decidedly spookier in tone.
With this creative team having contributed greatness to the genre in the past, it's safe to assume they will do the same again for Indigo Children, especially with a comparison as vivid as "Department of Truth meets Umbrella Academy" - two 'weird sci-fi' series that are absolutely beloved by comic fans. For any other creative team, that would be a bold attempt at boasting, but for such a talented team, it's practically a guarantee to exceed expectations.
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