Somewhere in the hall of NBC , an ad executive is looking at the high construct of Rick Remender and Eric Nguyen ’s new comic Gigantic and weeping openly . He ’s wondering just why he did n’t come up with the idea of a superhero realism show where a brainwashed exotic fighter fights against a series of threats to the survival of Earth , all the time unaware that he ’s being film for the televisual pleasance of aliens from his abode planet . Find out more about the series that its creators are calling “ a manifestation on America ’s consumer - base culture and the secret price paid by both the interview and the actors for a living filled with the endless distraction of entertainment ” ( plus , things being hit real hard and exploding ! ) under the leap .
Gigantic comes from the fertile judgement of Rick Remender , creator of ’ 50s retro SF book Fear Agent and co - author of Marvel ’s Punisher War Journal , and he ’s take for the rule book to offer highbrow piece of writing to match the philistine spectacle on crack :
Visually , it ’s a modern take on the big dynamic mogul of Jack Kirby , commingle with the scale of a ‘ Godzilla ’ pic and sprinkled with 1950s sci - fi kitsch . ‘ Gigantic ’ will tap into what makes comics playfulness — big visually exciting pages and demolition on a scale never before seen … The series ’ initial thrust will be the slowly unraveling the mystery of who Gigantic is and why he ’s constantly being engaged in absurd and seemingly staged large - scale battle across our world . Regardless of his endeavor to give up the ensuing destruction and protect humankind , many of the attacks lead to the flattening of dozens of major cities across the globe , position all governments to the singular task of annihilating this alien monster . As the size of the robots and bounty hunters sent to crusade him cover to increase , so does the sweeping wipeout of the cities of human beings . Gigantic ’s guilt feelings and sorrow exponentially increment as he begins to realize that no matter where he depart , destruction and destruction inevitably come after him .
The serial – planned to go along indefinitely , running in auction block of five issues at a metre – is aim at an October launching .
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