Ahoy Comics has announced a series of five one-shot comics set in the world of their series The Wrong Earth, launching in March 2022.
The Wrong Earth, which launched in September 2018, was co-created by Ahoy Editor in Chief Tom Peyer and artist Jamal Igle. The series features two superheroes, the upbeat Dragonflyman who lives on the campy Earth-Alpha and the darker Dragonfly who hunts down criminals on the gritty Earth Omega, and the consequences that occur when they switch worlds (see “Ahoy Comics: New Publisher, New Format”).
The one-shots will each feature a 25-page stand-alone story and will have main covers by Igle and variant covers by Dan Parent, Jerry Ordway, and other artists.
The first one-shot will be The Wrong Earth: Trapped on Teen Planet #1, by writer Gail Simone and artists Bill Morrison, Walter Geovani, and Rob Lean, in which the dark-hearted Dragonfly winds up in a world filled with teenage hijinks. The variant covers will be by Gene Ha and Dan Parent, and the comic is scheduled for March 2, 2022.
“Tom Peyer and Jamal Igle created a clever premise with The Wrong Earth that is a deeply satisfying read,” said Simone in a statement accompanying the announcement. “All it needed were more redheads. Our story is about a town, a small town, and the people who live in the town, including an earnest ginger, who is sort of in love with two girls. From a distance, this town presents itself like so many other small towns all over the world: safe, decent, innocent. Get closer, though, and you start seeing the shadows, specifically the long, dark shadow of the Dragonfly.”
Each of the next four months will bring a new one-shot:
- The Wrong Earth: Fame and Fortune #1, by writer Mark Russell and artist Michael Montenat, a satirical look at fame and money (April);
- The Wrong Earth: Purple #1, by writer Stuart Moore and artist Fred Harper, which introduces Earth-Kappa, a 1980s-inflected world of big hair, big shoulders, and funk music (May);
- The Wrong Earth: Confidence Men #1, by writer Mark Waid and artist Leonard Kirk, a tale of two sidekicks on the wrong earths, one mentoring his superhero, the other fighting his (June);
- The Wrong Earth: Meat #1, by writer Tom Peyer and artist Greg Scott, follows Dragonfly and Stinger as they try to foil a beef-obsessed criminal on Earth Alpha while on Earth Omega, Dragonflyman locks up a criminal in an abandoned slaughterhouse (July).
“Words will be written, words will be deleted, and nothing will ever be the same,” Peyer said in the company’s announcement. “This is Crisis on Infinite Earths, minus the line-wide consequences that made it interesting. This is Secret Wars without toys. This is the kind of epic, superheroic storytelling that publishers and CFOs love, where the tail of wealth-enhancing variant covers wags the dog of art.”
Source: ICv2
