Image Comics today announced it will publish Phenomx, a comic spearheaded by actor and comedian John Leguizamo that stars a Latin superhero and is produced by an all-Latin creative team: Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, the author of the series La Borinquena, is working with Leguizamo, and the series will also have interior art by Chris Batista, Sabrina Cintron, and Christopher Sotomayor and covers by Jim Muniz, Jose Marzan, Jr., and Juan Fernandez. Todd McFarlane, who brought the project to Image, will also do a variant cover for the first issue.
The story follows Max Gomez, a New Yorker who was racially profiled and later imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. After taking part in a secret government experiment in exchange for his freedom, he gains shapeshifting powers but also becomes embroiled in a war that rages through the streets of the city.
Leguizamo successfully crowdfunded the creation of the comic on the site Seed & Spark in 2019, but production was slowed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an update he posted on Instagram in March 2021, he said that three issues were completed, a fourth one nearly done, and a fifth would follow.
Leguizamo and McFarlane first met on the set of the Spawn movie, in which Leguizamo played The Clown. Over 30 years later, in 2018, they reconnected at New York Comic Con and decided to work together. Leguizamo is also the author of the autobiographical graphic novel Ghetto Klown, which was published in 2015.
Source: ICv2
