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The Horizon Experiment
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About The Book
THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in Miami, and an Evil Dead for black nerds.
Everyone’s challenge was the same: Create a protagonist from a marginalized background in a popular genre where if their background changed, so did the entire story.
THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT stories include:
The Manuchurian by Pornsak Pichetshote, Terry & Rachel Dodson: a thriller featuring a Chinese super spy by inspired by James Bond.
The Sacred Damned by Sabir Pirzada: a love letter to classic horror and follows a Muslim exorcist.
Moon Dogs by Tananarive Due: a family of Black lycanthropes of East African descent find themselves caught in a war when the truth comes out that werewolves aren't just a myth.
Motherf#cking Monsters by J. Holtham & Michael Lee Harris: a nerdy Black kid from Brooklyn and his friends stumble upon demon-worshipping frat brothers trying to take over the world.
Finders/Keepers by Vita Ayala: a reverse Indiant Jones adventure that follows an archeology grad student who steals artifacts from museums to return them to their native cultures.
About The Illustrators
Terry Dodson is an Oregon-based creator known for working on Harley Quinn, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, Count Chocula and the Image Comics series RED ONE with Xavier Dorison and ADVENTUREMAN! with Matt Fraction.
Terry works with his wife, Rachel, who adds her talented inking to his work.
Michael Walsh is an Eisner Award-winning artist and writer from Southern Ontario, Canada.
In 2013, Michael broke into comics with the Image Comics book series COMEBACK. Shortly after, Michael contributed art on a follow-up comic to the hit television series The X-Files for IDW. Then, in the following years, he worked primarily with Marvel Comics on superhero properties such as Spider-Man, The Avengers and the X-Men. He also adapted the Star Wars film The Last Jedi as a comic book mini-series. And created art for the DC/Dark Horse crossover event comic, Black Hammer/Justice League.
In 2021, Michael returned to creator-owned comics, creating the hit ongoing Image series THE SILVER COIN and the viral webcomic The Sleep Stories. In 2022, he released his middle-grade fantasy original graphic novel The Oates & The Elphyne, published by Humanoids BIG.
Illustrator Kelsey Ramsay exploded on the comics scene with works featured in Joan Jett and The Black Hearts 40 x 40: I Love Rock n’ Roll and FAB Breakout Book 1: Mad World before becoming one of the most sought after artists in comics and illustrating Dark Spaces: Good Deeds, part of IDW’s Dark Spaces imprint curated by comics superstar Scott Snyder. Alongside award-winning horror writer Tananarive Due, Kelsey is making her Image Comics debut with the werewolf comic The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs.
African-American cartoonist Michael Lee Harris is one of indie comics’ most singular voices. A jack of all trades, he is the creator, writer, and artist of Black Hitler and Choco Leche while also illustrating such eclectic and distinct titles as The Black Wraith, Berlin, and 1945: The True Untold Story in his unique style.
Freelance comic artist, illustrator, designer, and occasional writer, Skylar Patridge is a fan-favorite artist. Her work has become hotly in demand by every major comics publisher, whether it be working on original material such as Relics of Youth and Resonant, both for Vault Comics or drawing some of the most beloved characters in pop culture, including Batman, Wonder Woman, Supergirl, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Product Details
- Publisher: Image Comics (April 29, 2025)
- Length: 140 pages
- ISBN13: 9781534337008
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