Neverlanders: Injustice Author Tom Taylor Reveals the Way forward for Peter Pan

Injustice: Gods Amongst Us author Tom Taylor and Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures artist Jon Sommariva are teaming up for a YA graphic novel collection referred to as Neverlanders, which is able to reveal the darkish, war-torn way forward for the Peter Pan universe.Neverlanders focuses on a bunch of runaway kids who’re whisked away to Neverland by the final surviving member of the Misplaced Boys. Since Peter Pan’s disappearance, Neverland has turn out to be consumed by civil battle. These new heroes must be part of forces with Common Tinkerbell’s fairy military to quell a pirate rebellion and search out the true inheritor to Pan himself.

Take a look at a primary have a look at the collection and Sommariva’s character designs within the slideshow gallery beneath:

“A couple of years in the past I used to be away in Fiji with my household, and I used to be purported to not be working,” mentioned Taylor in a press release. “I didn’t even have my laptop computer with me. However one night time, as an alternative of sleeping, the thought of Neverlanders got here to me. Over the subsequent few hours, I crammed a lodge pocket book with the beginning of this story. Earlier than I fell asleep, I’d already messaged Jon Sommariva with the thought, and the most important twists and turns.”

Taylor continued, “Neverlanders is a narrative for now. It seems like the precise proper time for an epic story of younger individuals preventing for his or her future and standing in opposition to short-sighted, grasping adults.”

Neverlanders is the perfect of each worlds,” mentioned Sommariva. “There’s a familiarity to Neverland and its inhabitants, however we’re additionally ready to make use of that as a place to begin to create a complete new set of characters and creatures together with our model of Neverland. I get to attract and reimagine mermaids, goblins, pirates, fairies and our model of the misplaced ones. It’s an artists dream playground.”

Neverlanders shall be revealed by Random Home Publishing’s imprint Razorbill. Random Home received unique English language rights to the primary two Neverlanders graphic novels in an public sale. The primary quantity is predicted to be launched in Summer time 2022.

Taylor can also be the co-creator of The Deep, a science fiction graphic novel series that impressed the Netflix animated collection of the identical identify. Whereas it stays to be seen if Neverlanders will get an animated adaptation of its personal, it definitely appears ripe for that therapy.

For now, followers can search for Taylor’s work in Injustice Year Zero, a prequel set earlier than the fateful day Superman killed the Joker, and superhero zombie comics like DCeased 2 and DCeased: Hope at World’s End.

And should you’re hungry for extra darkish updates to in style fairy tales, why not take a look at the “Mad Max meets Wizard of Oz” series The O.Z.?

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