BLACK HAMMER: New Ongoing Series from Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston and Dark Horse Comics!

BLACK HAMMER will be a brand new creator-owned ongoing series from Dark Horse Comics coming late 2014. The book is written by Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Trillium, Animal Man) and drawn by the amazing Dean Ormston (Books of Magik). 

BLACK HAMMER follows a group of oddball superheroes who have been "wiped out of continuity" after an earth shaking cataclysmic "event" and wake on a farm in a mysterious small town.

They were the greatest heroes of a lost era, Golden Aged crime buster, ABRAHAM SLAM, interstellar adventurer COL. WEIRD and his robot sidekick TALKY-WALKY, BARBALIEN warlord From Mars, GOLDEN GAIL, America’s super-sweetheart, MADAME DRAGONFLY, mistress of the macabre, and BLACK HAMMER invincible champion of the streets.

They have no idea where they are or how to get back home. All they know is they can't leave the borders of the seemingly idyllic small town.

The book follows the strange cast of characters as they work to assimilate themselves into quiet small town life, living as a bizarre surrogate family on the farm, all the while try to uncover the many mysteries of the farm, where they really are and how to get back home.

 BLACK HAMMER will be a monthly ongoing series launching in MARCH 2015 from Dark Horse Comics! 
CHECK OUT AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF BLACK HAMMER AT CBR!

All characters and artwork copyright 2014 171 Studios Inc. and Dean Ormston. 

Black Hammer copyright 2014 171 Studios Inc. and Dewan Ormston

JEFF LEMIRE ORIGINAL ART FOR SALE

My original artwork from Sweet Tooth, Trillium as well as a few smaller projects is now available through CADENCE COMIC ART and many pieces are on sale for the holiday season.

Click here to visit the site and browse the artwork.

 

CBC News reveals JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED’s new Cree superhero EQUINOX

Today, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) NEWS debuted an exclusive first look of the new JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED Cree superhero EQUINOX!

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED scribe Jeff Lemire spoke with the CBC about his research, creating a new Canadian character from northern Ontario, his excitement to set the story in his home country and working with artist Mike McKone.

Check out the video with Lemire from his studio and a gallery of photos including character design sketches of Equinox, here. 

And where possible, tune into The National on the CBC tonight for an exclusive report featuring writer Jeff Lemire and his trip to Moosonee/Moose Factory with host Eli Glasner.  

JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED #0, written by Lemire (ANIMAL MAN, GREEN ARROW, TRILLIUM) and illustrated by Mike McKone (TEEN TITANS, GREEN LANTERN), launches April 23, 2014.

JUSTICE LEAGUE CANADA becomes JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED A New Ongoing Series in April!

Last Summer, DC Comics and I announced that I would be taking over as the writer of the comic book series Justice League of America, along with artist Mike McKone, and changing the title to Justice League Canada in 2014.

Since then I have been working steadily on the book, and my plans for the series continued to expand and grow and DC and I mutually agreed that the Canada title was too limiting for the cosmic scope the series was taking. As a result, JLA will be ending in April and my book will become a brand new ongoing series called JUSTICE LEAGUE UNITED!

Justice League United will launch in April with an extra-sized Zero Issue followed by #1 in May.
And the first storyline will be titled: Justice League Canada.

The team will still be based in Canada and the book will still introduce a brand new First Nations Canadian superhero to the DC Universe. More details on this new character, her origin and her powers, will be released in the weeks to come.

The roster of the new Justice League team will be a collection of some of my favourite DC characters: ANIMAL MAN, GREEN ARROW, STARGIRL, MARTIAN MANHUNTER, ADAM STRANGE, SUPERGIRL, ALANNA STRANGE and HAWKMAN. The JLU's headquarters will be set in Moosonee, Ontario and their missions will juxtapose adventures firmly set in rural Canada with more cosmic, planet-hopping high adventure around the galaxy.

More details about the new series can be found in a recent interview I did with USA Today...

TORONTO STAR'S PEOPLE TO WATCH IN 2014: Jeff Lemire brings Justice League to Canada

I've been featured in today's Toronto Star as one of the "People to Watch in 2014". The article includes a new interview and some new details about my upcoming JUSTICE LEAGUE CANADA project for DC Comics. The new Justice League series launches in April and will be drawn by the amazing Mike McKone. More details will be announced very soon...

In addition, Tom Spurgeon at The Comic's Reporter has another new interview with me up on his blog.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

SWEET TOOTH and TRILLIUM ORIGINAL ART ON SALE!

My original artwork from Sweet Tooth, Trillium as well as a few smaller projects is now available through CADENCE COMIC ART and many pieces are on sale for the holiday season.

Click here to visit the site and browse the artwork.