King in Black Team Give YA Fantasy a Metal Makeover in New Comic Series
The all-star team behind Marvel Comics' era-defining Venom series and the King in Black crossover, Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, teams up again to bring readers Vanish, a dark, gritty, and gory tale of fantasy, superheroes, and violence, coming from Image Comics (and digitally by the KLC Press Substack newsletter) this September. Cates and Stegman have been working on this project for years, starting from a simple but effective question: "What if magic was...metal?" While Cates is currently working on both Thor and Hulk for Marvel Comics, Vanish looks like an original project that is very close to his heart.
Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman's run on Venom is remembered for having completely redefined the character, diving deeply into the alien origins of the symbiote. Eddie Brock went from «lethal protector» to cosmic god of the symbiotes, and he was one of Marvel's flagship characters during the company's King in Black crossover that took most of 2021. Cates and Stegman poured the same creative energy that made Venom stand out into this new venture, which promises to put a totally new spin on the classic genre of «young adult» stories about magic and predestination.
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Vanish's main character is Oliver Harrison, who as a kid became a hero by defeating the greatest threat to his realm, one of the recurring tropes of the fantasy genre. The story picks up with an adult Oliver, who is a paranoid drug addict and alcoholic who can barely sleep at night due to horrible nightmares. There is a chance that Oliver's epic fantasy past was all in his mind, but the arrival in town of a new superhero group called the Prestige shakes up Oliver's horrible life, proving that he
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