Image Comics and Void Rivals #1 Spoilers and Review follows.
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What To Expect.
VOID RIVALS #1
(W) Robert Kirkman (A) Matheus Lopes (A/CA) Lorenzo De Felici (VCA) Ethan Young, Matteo Scalera, Karen S. Darboe, Jim Cheung and Jay David Ramos, Daniel Warren JohnsonSERIES PREMIERE
The blockbuster OBLIVION SONG team of ROBERT KIRKMAN & LORENZO DE FELICI debut the biggest new comic book series of 2023 with the launch of AN ALL-NEW SHARED UNIVERSE and a SURPRISE you won’t see coming!
War rages around the Sacred Ring, where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war.
However, when pilot Darak and his rival Solila both crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies must find a way to escape together. But are they alone on this strange planet? And what dark forces await that threaten the entire universe?
In Shops: Jun 14, 2023
SRP: $3.99
In addition the main cover and solicitation above the title has a few variant covers below.
Context.
There’s been lots of news concerning Hasbro’s Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises landing at Skybound for Image Comics publication.
- Confirmation of the creation of a shared Energon Universe for Transformers, G.I. Joe and select Skybound properties starting with two G.I. Joe series and one Transformers series following the Void Rivals series debut.
- The reveal of the creative teams for those three upcoming series, and release dates in 2023 and 2024 for Duke #1 and Cobra Commander #1, both written by Joshua Williamson, and Transformers #1 by Daniel Warren Johnson who also created the Void Rivals #1 Spoiler Variant Cover.
- Skybound Founder and Void Rivals writer Robert Kirkman’s message to readers with his plans for the Energon Universe subimprint of Skybound within Image Comics.
This looks promising, but now onto the first series in the Energon Universe: Void Rivals #1.
Void Rivals #1 Spoilers and Review.
Pilot Darak and his rival Solila crash and find each other on a desolate planet.
They encounter each other and then stumble upon a spaceship of some kind which turns out to a Transformers character the Autobot Jetfire.
Jetfire leaves the two looking for its home planet Cybertron.
That leaves our two leads to unmask and reveal that they’re humanoid and very similar in fact.
And Darak had a vision of this meeting while Solila did not?!
The Pulse.
I am intrigued by this new shared Energon Universe and the story of these two beings who I thought may be robots, but may actually be cyborgs or aliens or something else. The art team of Matheus Lopes and Lorenzo De Felici have a gritty style that works for this series and helps establish the subtle-macabre tone writer Robert Kirkman is looking to establish. What to kick off something new and classic in one issue. 8.5 out of 10.
