As I’ve said before on Suvudu, I’m a sucker for cool cover art.
It doesn’t matter if the artwork is on a comic book, a book dust jacket or a movie poster.
Ever since the three Pirates of the Caribbean moves, I also like all things pirate. Arrrr! And since the forthcoming week is considered one of the most important and fun weeks of the year for comic book readers and creators, I thought we’d start with something I’m very curious to read.
Here is the cover to the forthcoming Blackbeard: Legend of the Pyrate King, brought to the comic book world by Dynamite Entertainment! The cover is done by John Cassaday and the new series is written by Eduardo Sanchez with Gregg Hale and Jamie Nash with Robert Napton. Interior artwork will be provided by Mario Guevara. More information can be read about Blackbeard at this Newsarama article.
To read more about Blackbeard and its creators, click HERE!
More to come in other areas all week from San Diego!
Stay tuned!
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Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith collection
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I love seeing that they worked in his burning beard. I wonder if they’re going to be using historical fact (or is it mythology?) to write this one. Not that it’ll dissuade me from looking at it one way or the other; I’m just curious.
That is some cool cover art!
From some of the things I’ve read, it seems they are drawing more from the historical and weaving a fun fictional yarn from it. I know they are using some other real life personages. We’ll see where they take it! I know Napton will know more when I see him in SDCC this year.
Here are some quotes I’ve found:
“What was exciting in our first meeting with Ed, Gregg, Jamie and Robert was the research and passion that they brought to the project. This was their baby, and they asked us to help them bring their baby to comics. It was extremely flattering of them. They worked on the first Blair Witch movie, and Gregg does marketing and PR as well, I felt that they wouldn’t have gotten involved if they weren’t excited about the project. It’s something that we’ve been working with them on for the last two years, and am excstatic that we’re announcing and launching in October! Having Mario on the interiors and John Cassaday on the covers is the cherry on top!”
“Branded as the cruelest and most-feared pirate on the high seas, Edward Teach, AKA BLACKBEARD, was an amazingly complex and tragically flawed anti-hero that surprisingly belied his public persona in many ways. While delivering plenty of the kind of action you’d expect from a pirate story, this new comic will also be packed with surprises as we reveal a side of BLACKBEARD that you’ll never expect.” – Eduardo Sanchez
“What’s interesting about our story is it will dispel a lot of the pre-conceived notions people might have about Edward Teach the man called ‘Blackbeard.’
“Working with Dynamite on this is the perfect project with the perfect publisher in my opinion. They have proven themselves as a top comic publisher of every genre.” – Robert Place Napton
“Blackbeard is one of world’s most infamous characters and yet no one really knows who he was. This comic is going to give people a completely new take on who and what Blackbeard might have been. “History is written by the winners”, they say; Edward Teach ended up with his head on a pike so we’re trying to give an alternative take on his story.” – Gregg Hale
“With the enormous popularity of Pirates, it seems the perfect time to tell the largely unheard true-story of the most legendary pirate of them all. And the amazing thing is that the true story has all the suspense, swashbuckling, and excitement of fantasy pirate tales, while also laying out an epic-journey of a criminal genius who may not have been as ‘Villainous’ as we think.
He had 14 wives, he was shot and stabbed more than twenty-five times and kept fighting before finally being decapitated, his pirate career was filled with Sea-Chases, cannon-battles, and machete-on-machete combat — there are some things you just can’t get from Wikipedia. This is a story that demands to be big, bold, and blood-drenched. It needs to be a comic.” – Jamie Nash