Hulu canceled Marvel’s MODOK earlier this month, and two of the primary minds behind the animated series have already landed their next superhero gig. Tuesday, Dark Horse Comics unveiled a new superhero comic called Minor Threats, featuring scripts from comedian Patton Oswalt and his writing partner Jordan Blum.
Featuring a team-up store with a bunch of low-level villains, the Minor Threats world will begin with a four-issue mini-series that follows that team working to save all of reality.
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“Every comic book fan dreams of creating their own universe,” Oswalt said of the comic in a press release distributed by Dark Horse. “This one is mine and Jordan’s. There is fun and danger and violence and sadness just like in real life, but with WAY brighter colors. I can’t wait to see you guys experience it.”
Oswalt and Blum teamed together to write all four issues of the debut mini-series. Scott Hepburn did the artwork for the book, while BlamBot’s Nate Piekos serves as letterer.
“This is our love letter to superhero comics and crime fiction,” Blum continued. “An underdog story of inept costumed criminals in over their heads, trying to survive an unforgiving city filled with caped gods, fallen kaiju, and traffic causing time vortexes. Everyday crooks in a fantastical world trying to get theirs.”
Hepburn added, “Work like this is why I’ve always wanted to be a comic book artist. Patton, Jordan, and myself are in a three-way battle of one-ups-manship to prove who loves this book more.”
The first issue of the series is expected to hit comic stores on August 24th. Dark Horse’s full synopsis for the series can be found below.
“It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses… but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks… and they’re about to get much worse. The psychotic Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a terrifying police state–desperate to capture the Stickman and stop the Insomniac from “crossing that final line” in which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to pull jobs or even walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to put together a ragtag team of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves. Leading her on a dark journey into the criminal underbelly she’s tried so hard to escape.”
