Monday, 4 March 2013

Solicitation: Dynamite's Miss Fury #1

Writer: Rob Williams
Art: Jack Herbert

THE PULP HEROINE RETURNS! When Miss Fury foils a wartime plot by Nazi secret agents, she is catapulted through time... or so it seems. Is she really careening from past to future and back, or has she lost her mind? And if her sanity remains intact, can one lone heroine possibly hope to end World War II by herself, a conflict still waged into the year 2013? As witness to generations of bloodshed and violence, Miss Fury has lots of righteous rage... and anger is her fearsome power!

The book has a release date of April 3rd.

Dynamite has a history of adding their own take to existing characters and they appear to be doing so again here with a time travel/insanity aspect. Writer Rob Williams (Daken: Dark Wolverine, Ghost Rider, Robocop/Terminator) explains this a bit more thoroughly in the following except from an interview with Comics Book Resources.
Miss Fury is still Marla Drake, Manhattan socialite, but we've given her a new origin story where she's not a superhero at the beginning. Marla is bored and fairly amoral when we meet her in 1943 -- she's a thief who doesn't need the money. When she runs across Nazi secret agents, Marla finds herself thrown into a time machine; the result is she's fighting World War II in 2013 and beyond. This woman who believed in absolutely nothing at the start of our tale asks herself what she's willing to fight for.

You can think of this series of "Miss Fury" as "Homeland" meets "Back To The Future." The catch is Miss Fury is constantly shifting through time -- she has no control over it. One minute she's in the '40s, the next it's 2013 and then she's into the far future. There's cloaked, armoured Nazi super agents hiding as major political figures in our time, and Miss Fury is told to assassinate them. The question then becomes, is she being told the truth? Is she being sent to assassinate innocent people? Or is the time traveling all in her head and she's actually gone insane?
The above cover is by Alex Ross, as is the subscription variant below.  Click on it to be taken to Dynamite's solicitation page where the other cover options, as well as some interior art, are displayed.

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