Leaving Megalopolis: Surviving Megalopolis

by Gail Simone, J. Calafiore (Illustrator), Jason Wright (Illustrator)

Overview

Fan-favorite creators Gail Simone (Batgirl, Deadpool) and J. Calafiore (Secret Six, Exiles) return to the city whose citizens are hunted, not by villains, but by heroes! The survivors of Leaving Megalopolis reluctantly return to the doomed city still under the control of formerly beloved superheroes, now turned brutal killers on a rescue mission straight into the heart of madness! Get in on the ground floor of this critically acclaimed series, and see what happens when the good guys go very, very bad. Collects issues 1-6 of the nail-biting series.

Praise for the first volume of Leaving Megalopolis:
"If this first volume is any indication, Simone and Calafiore both have a bright future, full of the guts and glory we've all come to love from them, in creator-owned comics." -Comicosity

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506700496
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Series:	Surviving Megalopolis
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gail Simone is an American writer of comic books. Best known for penning DC's Birds of Prey, her other notable works include Secret Six, Welcome to Tranquility, The All-New Atom, and Deadpool. In 2007 she took over Wonder Woman. In 2011 she became the writer for Batgirl as well as co-writer for The Fury of Firestorm. She became the writer for the Red Sonja series in 2013 with Dynamite Entertainment as well as Conan Red Sonja for Dark Horse Comics in 2015.

Editorial Reviews

01/16/2017
Simone and Calafiore follow up on Leaving Megalopolis, the crowd-sourced first volume of this series, with another grim tale of metahumans gone wrong. The previous volume saw the island city of Megalopolis’s superpowered saviors changed into murderous psychopaths. The sequel follows several storylines, beginning with the newly villainous spandex crew, led by Southern Belle, rescuing Overlord from the watery deeps. Meanwhile, a mercenary team arrives to save billionaire Simon Valiant, who happens to be the leader of Megalopolis’s supervillain community, the only group who might be able to stop the antiheroes. This book feels like exactly what you would get if you set the evil twins of Kurt Busiek’s Astro City series in Brian Woods’s DMZ. Most of the action occurs at night, with the artwork featuring chiseled figures set amid urban rubble. This is for anyone who wonders how normal humans would cope in a world of superpowered predators. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore sell the superheroes-gone-bad motif to both new readers and those anxious for a sequel" in "Surviving Megalopolis" #1." -Bleeding Cool

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