The independent comic book publisher DSTLRY was founded in May of 2023. Since its launch, it has released multiple new series from some of the biggest creatives in comics here today.
This is why at a special panel showcasing their upcoming releases At San Diego Comic-Con, creatives Mirka Andolfo, Ram V, David Brothers, and Joelle Jones got together to discuss the future of DSTLRY and what this meant to them as creators in their most recent panel.
Time Waits is a new story from David Brothers and Chip Zdarsky set to release this summer. Zdarsky was not able to be at the panel and so Brothers took the initiative to explain their new work. This new sci-fi adventure centers around Blue, a man now trapped in the past as he could not go through with the mission he was set out to complete before.
Brothers said:
Essentially blue used to be a paramilitary soldiers, the trouble was they sent him into the past on a mission he didn’t really agree with and instead of bringing things back he stayed, got with a nice lady, settled down and now they’re looking to adopt. His bosses in the future did not like that and they send forces back to kill them
To him, Time Waits is meant to be a classic revenge story with small councilors and Zdarsky and himself have got some amazing stuff.
Andolfo got to talk about her newest collection for BLASFAMOUS as the hardcover completed collection release in October. Although she was excited for her current run with DSTLRY she was happy to speak on her future project how she is more willing to take more of a serious approach and focus on some more themes she was looking forward to.
Ram V will be releasing his newest project yet, Through Red windows, which is a collaboration between himself and Joelle Jones as they explore a take on a modern horror. Protagonist Athul Laal is invited to live in a house by his Mentor. What he thought was his initiation into inner circles of the elites, turns into his own personal hell. The illness that consumes his mentor is somehow tied to the very 73 story building and behind each there are even more secrets and monsters tied to Harlan and Athuls lives.
“This is really a series that asks questions about what do you sacrifice to fulfill your ambitions” said V. “How wealth and the kind of world that some people have can essentially alter reality itself. So I’ve had a fascination with taking things that don’t really combined well and putting them together anyway. In a book called blue green, which was jazz and horror put together, so this one is wealth and business and horror put together”.
Jones finished the panel by commenting on how she understood where V was coming from with this project. She said “ this immediately clicked with my sort of brand and I said yes, I’m very excited”.
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