Herik Hanna and Sean Phillips’ VOID saga heads to the UK

By John Freeman on March 21, 2014

Following up on last week’s item on Titan Comics upcoming hardcover publication of Elric: The Ruby Throne in September, here’s some more about the company’s other bande dessine release that month, VOID, by Herik Hanna and Sean Phillips.

The English edition of the gripping science-fiction thriller Void, written by Herik Hanna (Bad Ass) with art by Sean Phillips (Fatale, Criminal, Sleeper) and published in French by Delcort, centres on the sole survivor of an interstellar prison ship.

Aboard the Goliath 01, the whole crew and prisoners appears to have been murdered by Colonel Mercer. To escape him, John, the sole survivor, lurks in the bowels of the ship.

Abandoned, hunted, he clings to the slim hope to escape this evil place … but how do you escape a prison in space?

This tense and atmospheric graphic novel is Phillips’ first venture into science fiction, and as you can see from these preview pages from the French edition…

From late 2014, Titan Comics will follow Elric: The Ruby Throne and VOID with a host of new projects including best-selling medieval thriller The Third Testament; The Chronicles of Legion, which is the prequel to Fabien Nury and John Cassaday’s I Am Legion, and The Rage; a shocking horror about zombie children.

• Void will hit comic and book stores from 2nd September 2014

• Elric: The Ruby Throne will hit comic and book stores from 16th September 2014

• Void and Elric: The Ruby Throne will also be available to read on the iPad, iPhone, Web, Android and Kindle Fire, exclusively through the comiXology app and comiXology.com

• Titan Comics is at www.titan-comics.com and they’re also on Facebook or follow @comicstitan on Twitter.

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.