Sci-Fi Series ‘Project Perseus’ Announced by Vault
Vault Comics revealed Project Perseus, a science-fiction series from writer Jack Mulqueen and artist Edison Neo, with colors by Kike J. Díaz, letters by Buddy Beaudoin, and design by Tim Daniel.
The series sends its characters across jungles, frozen oceans, and rough dive bars. When a disgraced member of a cryptid-hunting squadron disappears along with a time-traveling device, Slug Stephens has to pull himself out of a decade-long bender and hunt down a former friend who has become something else entirely.
"This story was born from a desire to tell a tale that could only be told in the medium of comics," said Mulqueen. "At the time when the story was conceived, there was a lot of discourse regarding the medium of comics being used as an IP farm for other mediums, people using comics as spec-scripts and proof of concept, in hopes their work would get optioned to television or film. From the start, we knew we wanted to tell a story that would be so batshit insane, that it would be prohibitively expensive to recreate it in any other medium, and therefore, it would be a story that would belong singularly to comics."
"Having that clarity of purpose, that creative freedom from the jump, I knew that my obligation was to truly push the artistic limits of my creative partner, Edison Neo," continued Mulqueen. "To my dismay, I discovered that his limits do not exist... And at that juncture, I discovered a new type of freedom… That I could put anything in my script, and he would bring it to life with an excellence beyond my imagination. What remains, when the ectoplasmic dust settles, is a story that we believe encapsulates the unbridled joy of making comics, and our hopes are that that joy translates to the reading experience as well. It's campy, it has comedy, it has jaw-dropping action sequences that will leave you poring over each and every detail, and it's got a beating heart… truisms universal within the human experience. We had a lot of fun making this book, and can't wait for the readers to join us for the ride."
Project Perseus debuts in September with a 40-page first issue. The debut also carries variant covers from Esad Ribic, Brett Bean, Jorge Corona, Garth Graham, and Pete Caroll.
