Superhero Theme Month with Heroic Lineup Led by Six New Titles Including
Expansion of New Brooklyn Universe, Return of Fashion Hit Heroine Chic,
and the Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment Superhero Comics Contest Winner The Badguys
LOS ANGELES, July 5, 2016 – LINE Webtoon (http://www.webtoons.com),
the popular digital comics publisher pioneering the distribution and
consumption of
comics worldwide, is giving readers a dynamic dose of superheroes in
epic proportions throughout the month of July. Honoring July as
Superhero Month, LINE Webtoon’s heroic lineup will include the expansion
of its first superhero universe New Brooklyn,
the return of hit fashion-meets-superhero comic Heroine Chic, along with the winner of the Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment Superhero Comics Contest The
Badguys.
Kicking off this
Superhero Theme Month, Superhero Comics Contest winner The Badguys launches today on the LINE Webtoon platform. After council from comic legend Stan Lee, readers can now dive into The Badguys – a
comedic superhero heist comic
with a cast of characters supremely out of their depth.Dealing with
daddy issues, bad breakups, decades-old grudges and profound
professional inadequacies, the whole endeavor is pretty much a foregone
conclusion. Bad guys never win. Created by the team of
writer LG Lancaster and artist Orlando Caicedo, fans will be now able
to read The Badguys with new chapters available each week exclusively on LINE Webtoon.
“With superheroes being
everywhere you look in entertainment this summer—from movies to
television and of course, comics—this genre is one that fans are
increasingly hungry for,” said JunKoo Kim Founder and Head of
LINE Webtoon. “With the unmatched expertise of the legendary Stan Lee
and the team at POW! Entertainment in choosing our contest winners,
along with the return of Heroine Chic and more New Brooklyn, we’re confident that these titles will further
give LINE Webtoon readers just the superhero fix they’re looking for.”
In addition to today’s launch of The Badguys,
two more highly-anticipated caped crusaders are soaring onto LINE
Webtoon this summer with the debut of the second title in the New Brooklyn universe, The
Purple Heart, and the return of beloved fashion-meets-superheroes comic Heroine Chic which returns for its second season on July 11.
Following the introduction
of The Red Hook earlier this year in LINE Webtoon’s first-ever superhero
universe, The Purple Heart from Vito Delsante, Dean Haspiel, and
Ricardo Venâncio tells the tale of US Navy soldier,
Isaiah “Zeke” Nelson has just returned from war overseas. He is done
fighting and all he wants is to go home to Brooklyn, but Brooklyn has
other plans when her heart is broken and she secedes from America and
selects Zeke to become New Brooklyn's cosmic guardian,
The Purple Heart. The Purple Heart follows this year’s earlier launch
of The Red Hook, the first title of the New Brooklyn universe which
follows the adventures of a unique group of heroes who emerge in the
fallout from Brooklyn’s decision to secede from
New York State.
Heroine Chic is the well-dressed mash-up of superheroes and fashion, the brainchild of renowned writer David Tischman (Batman, True Blood, Teen Wolf).
In Season 2, young designer Zoe Porter has her
own fashion line, but launching a business and styling super-heroes are
new skill sets. Will Zoe save the day and be the hero of her own life —
or is she on the runway to disaster? Artist Audrey Mok (“Josie and the
Pussycats”) returns for Season 2, as well,
making sure every panel of “Heroine Chic” is picture perfect.
Giving readers even more superhero substance, today’s debut of The Badguys follows the launch of runner-up titles from Stan Lee’s Superhero Comics Contest-- Inarime, Supersonic
Girl and unORDINARY. With unique plot lines and themes ranging from futuristic time travel to Ancient Gods, what lies at the center of each of
these titles is a brand new superhero character that is sure to offer something for every type of comic lover.
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