Following big numbers with the release of Planet Death, Bad Idea have announced Cul De Sac, a new horror title with the creative team of Mike Carey and illustrator Jonathan Wayshak. Writer Matt Kindt and artist David Lapham are set to return to the The Hero Trade universe with a brand new two-part story in The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1.
Bad Idea are known for their non-convention approach to publishing and both of these new titles have very fun variants for Cul De Sac and The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1, both coming to your local comic shop on August 6.
Cul De Sac will have chromium cover by Wayshak, and covers by Eisner award winner Andrea Sorrentino, Ramon Villalobos, Jim Mahfood and a special Cursed Mirror Cover by Eisner nominated artist Tony Fleecs that seems percent for selfies and Bad Idea has told us to keep an eye out for a selfie contest.
Here is a quick pitch for Cul De Sac from Bad Idea:
Nestled in a tucked-away corner of sleepy suburbia, the Kingsley, Herriman and Ortega families seemed like any other close-knit neighbors. So nothing seems amiss when Mrs. Kingsley piles all the neighborhood kids into the family RV for their annual summer camp-out. But in the dark of the woods, she unleashes a grisly, bloodcurdling display, revealing their families’ shocking secret—their parents are vampires and they’re eager to pass on their legacy.
Now the children must choose—to join them and revel in their awesome dark powers or live out their lives as mortals. But when they return home, they confront a gruesome scene—their parents dead on the floor, brutally murdered by an elite squad of vampire hunters. And the hunters? They’re looking to finish the job. Now the kids are on the run, chased by vampire hunters, the police, and even a shadowy cabal of their fellow vampires as they search for answers to unlock the secret of what they really are before their fates are sealed forever.
Check out some preview pages of Cul De Sac below:
The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1 will have main cover by David Lapham that will connect to The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #2, there will also be a Black and White 1:20 incentive and a cover B by legendary comic artist Rob Liefeld. Bad Idea is once again challenging the comic medium with a 1-inch 1:50 variant Tiny Comic Variant Cover by Lapham that I assume will be a little difficult to read.
Here is a quick pitch for The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1 from Bad Idea:
As lead agents at Project Chimera, Hank and Ingrid are tasked with a vital mission: keep Trey and Trina, twin teenagers with world destroying powers, in check. Under Hank and Ingrid’s watchful eye, the teens remain locked away in a tightly-secure black site, conditioned to believe they cannot survive the outside world and unleashed only when lethal force is required. Hank and Ingrid have always kept to the mission and followed orders. Until now.Trey is beginning to unravel, becoming a bloodthirsty berserker when he’s let off the leash, leaving Hank and Ingrid shaken. And Trina, once the model asset, is starting to question everything. With whispers of a mole embedded deep within the organization threatening to bring the entire operation down, Hank and Ingrid find themselves tangled between duty, deception, and a forbidden affair that could just cost them their lives.
Check out some preview pages of The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1 below:
Bad Idea continue to bring together top writers with inedible artist and I’m looking forward to the gitty black and white crime tale in The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1 or color paint jumping out of the page in Cul De Sac. It’s just a cherry on top that Bad Idea publishes fun things for the fans like the reverse cover or the 1-inch variant.
Cul De Sac and The Hero Trade: Project Chimera #1(of 2) are on sale August 6.
