Bad Idea has announced its next Prestige Format limited series debuting in March 2025: Planet Death, a sci-fi action thriller from John Wick screenwriter Derek Kolstad, Robert Venditti, and artist Tomás Giorello. But in addition to the first look below, the publisher will also have an exclusive Planet Death giveaway comic at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 for attendees of its Saturday afternoon panel at 2:30 p.m. in Room 24ABC.
Here’s the solicit text for Planet Death:
Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault.
They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.
Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.
Destroy the weapon.
Return home.
“Derek, Rob, and Tomás have built an absolutely massive story of the highest caliber in Planet Death, and we’ve planned an equally massive promotional campaign to support it,” said Bad Idea CEO and CCO Dinesh Shamdasani. “It all begins this month at the legendary San Diego Comic-Con with our Planet Death convention-exclusive giveaway comic spotlighting the book’s virtuoso art, a massive panel featuring the entire creative team appearing on stage, and a no-expense-spared live event in the book’s honor.”
“Planet Death is my love letter to all of the comics and books I read, movies I watched, and games I played—late into the night with a grin on my face… from Hard Boiled and Ronin by Frank Miller to the films of Alistair MacLean like The Guns of Navarone and Where Eagles Dare to Bradbury, Asimov, and Heinlein, to games like Starcraft and everything in between,” said Kolstad. “Some of my favorite stories are the ones that blend science fiction with elements of the war genre. From Starship Troopers to Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow. With Planet Death we take this tradition and add all those things we love so much about comic books.”
Venditti added, “From my first conversations with Derek, I don’t know how to describe it, other than an engine clicked on. Writing the first issue, I was buzzing with adrenaline. I couldn’t stop until I got the whole issue down. I was swept up in [protagonist] Scott’s relentless will—always pressing forward, always pushing ahead. I’ve written a lot of science fiction—but never from the perspective of a boots-on-the-ground, D-Day-style invasion. With every project, I want to push myself further. Planet Death is bigger in scale and scope than anything I’ve done before.”
Check out a preview from issue #1 below.
Bad Idea will be at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 with an exclusive preview of Planet Death #1. For more information, visit BadIdeaCorp.com or follow the publisher on X and Instagram.
Stay tuned for more SDCC ’24 coverage from The Beat.
Strong art, I liked Giorello’s work on X-O Manowar.
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