Curt Pires and comiXology Announce Two New
Series—Lost Falls and Memoria
Coinciding with the Highly Anticipated Print
Publication of Curt Pires’ YOUTH Volume 1 from Dark Horse Books and the Digital
Debut of the Next Season of YOUTH Exclusively Available from comiXology
Originals
“Bold, genre-defying and
heartfelt, YOUTH hits a reader like the meteor in its own pages; an angry,
wonderous and
transformative book.”
–Scott Snyder, writer Batman, American
Vampire, Nocterra
“YOUTH is everything it says on the label, in ways you'd never
expect! Let's take the hormonal thrillride of our teens and give it new, fresh
life as a rebellious road trip that careens into a wild, super science thriller
that never fails to keep you on your toes!” –Steve Orlando, writer Midnighter, Martian Manhunter
“Pires, Diotto, Cunniffe and Myers mix scathing
dialogue, gestural lines and a blazing colour scheme to take a well-worn genre
and inject it with a new, rebellious pulse. Posthuman powers plus iGen hormones
equals hyper-violent results. YOUTH takes the established superhero fruit and
peels it with a post millennial edge.”
–Declan Shalvey, writer Moon Knight, Bog Bodies
“If you're a fan of Chronicle, or even more recent intimate
superhero stories like Fast Color,
it's very much worth
checking out.” –SYFY Wire
April
1, 2021—New York, NY—Visionary writer Curt Pires and comiXology, Amazon’s premier digital comics
service, are announcing two
new series Lost
Falls and Memoria.
This announcement is timed to the highly anticipated print publication of YOUTH Volume 1 from Dark
Horse Books which coincides with the debut of YOUTH
Season Two, the sequel to the acclaimed teen superhero drama
that is exclusively available as part of the comiXology Originals line of
digital content.
Both Lost
Falls, a social minded mystery box thriller with art by Antonio Fuso, Pierluigi
Minotti and Lee Loughridge and Memoria,
a crime thriller with art by Sunando C and Mark Dale, will be written by Curt
Pires and available exclusively from comiXology Originals will be available for
purchase via comiXology and Kindle and included in Prime Reading, Kindle
Unlimited and comiXology Unlimited upon release. More details and release
dates will be announced in the coming months.
“I’m very excited to finally pull
back the curtain and unveil these projects we’ve spent the last year in the
trenches working on,” said Pires. “With YOUTH Season Two, Lost Falls and Memoria, I issued a challenge to myself
and my teams to make the greatest comics we could—comics that rival the
greatest comics published anywhere by anyone in any format—and I’m excited to
unveil the results of our labour. These books represent what I believe to be
the future of comics: bold innovative genre storytelling that’s representative
of our diverse and expansive modern world. I hope you’ll come along for the
ride.”
Written by Curt Pires and with art by Alex
Diotto, co-creators of the acclaimed comic Olympia,
with colors by Dee Cunniffe and letters by Micah Myers, YOUTH is an epic superhuman saga unlike any other. YOUTH is currently in development as
an original series with Amazon Studios with executive producer Patrick Moran.
YOUTH Volume 1, the print edition, collecting issues 1-4 of
the digital series, arrives in paperback for the first time from Dark Horse
Books in bookstores on April 6, 2021 and in comic shops on April 7, 2021. In YOUTH Volume 1 Franklin and River
struggle to navigate family, friends, high school, work, drugs, and
all the pressures of growing up. As a queer couple, they yearn to escape their
lives in a small, bigoted Midwest town. They steal River’s stepfather’s Mustang
and hit the road. Their destination? California. But along the way, the car
breaks down. They meet some kids who are travelling the country, partying, and
attempting to find themselves. They party some more. . .And soon everything
changes. [136 pages / color / MSRP $19.99/$25.99 pbk / ISBN: 978-1-5067-2461-4]
Also on April 6, 2021, the story continues
digitally with YOUTH Season Two
issue #1. In YOUTH
Season Two, six months have passed since the events of the first story. Some
of the kids are missing. Some of the kids are dead. Some of the kids are trying
to do better. One thing is for certain: they’re not the only ones with powers
anymore. A bold expansion to the smash hit first story, YOUTH Season Two
will continue with the core cast as well as introduce new characters from all
across the globe.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of
exclusive digital content, YOUTH
Season Two will be released monthly. Each of the 4-issues will be
available upon release, at no additional cost, for members of Amazon Prime,
Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited, and for purchase on the Amazon Kindle
Store and comiXology. Prime Reading offers all Amazon Prime members a rotating
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