WarWorldz: Origins Team Announced

By John Freeman on January 30, 2015

WarWorldz: Origins – Art by Giancarlo Caracuzzo

Film and Commando writer Stephen Walsh – perhaps best known for his work with Keith Page on Charlotte Corday – will script WarWorldz: Origins, a contemporary tale set in the WarWorldz Shared Universe, originally by conceived by John Freeman as a potential TV series.

The strip will be drawn by Marvel artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo, perhaps best known for his work on Orson Scott Card’s Formic Wars.

In the far future, as, we’ve seen in Death Duty, the Terran Empire has risen to hold sway over a huge part of our Galaxy – but how did humans gain the technology and the means to take on powerful alien races, subjugate them, and in some cases… bring about their extinction?

On present day Earth, the seeds of humankind’s meteoric rise, corruption and fall are about to be sown, witnessed by a pilot of the Royal Air Force… on a mysterious deadly planet known as — WarWorld!

Warworldz – Origins will initially feature as a weekly web comic on the Tapastic platform, where another Freeman project, Crucible, drawn and co-created with 2000AD artist Smuzz, is already enjoying a favourable reception.

Warworldz – Origins is one of several projects under way in the WarWorldz Universe, with Death Duty already featuring in the e-comic Biodegradable. Other projects already in the works include Skow Dogs, drawn by Dave Thomson and Border World, drawn by Bill Storie.

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John Freeman

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.