You can’t keep a good creature down.
Today Image Comics revealed a slew of variant covers for the first issue of their new Creature from the Black Lagoon series. The series is from acclaimed writers Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots, Lucifer) and Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Batman: Detective Comics), along with artist Matthew Roberts (Manifest Destiny), and colorist Dave Stewart (Ultramega, Hellboy).
The covers, which can be seen below, boasts cover artwork Matthew Roberts, Joshua Middleton, Joëlle Jones, and Alex Ross, as well as the first of a four-part connecting cover series by DANI, and a blank sketch cover.
Picking up where the original films left off, this new Universal Monsters tale will take readers back to the mysterious Amazonian lagoon where terror lurks beneath its murky waters.
The synopsis of the series, according to the publisher is: Years after the events of the original film, Journalist Kate Marsden hunts for a notorious serial killer in the heart of the Amazon. Hot on the trail of this madman, she soon encounters an unexpected new threat–but is he friend or foe? Or is he simply…The Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! is the second Universal Monsters series launch from Skybound, following James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds’ Dracula, and will be followed by more new limited series pairing the biggest names in comics with pop culture’s most iconic monsters.
Stay tuned to Horror News Network for more on the series.
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