The Future of Law Enforcement Returns with Frank Miller's Robocop from Avatar

Avatar Press has announced that it will publish a dark tale of technology, violence, and one man's struggle against a city gone mad with Frank Miller's Robocop, a full color mini-series from Avatar's licensed comic book imprint Pulsar Press. The saga features story and cover artwork by Frank Miller, interior art by Juan Jose Ryp (Alan Moore's Another Suburban Romance) and sequential adaptation by Steven Grant. A nine issue mini-series beginning in July, Frank Miller's Robocop joins an Avatar Press schedule that also includes work from Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Joe R. Lansdale, and Tim Truman in the coming months.

"This story is going to be one of those punches to the gut that Frank Miller is so expert at delivering," says Avatar Press editor-in-chief William Christensen. "It knocks you on your ass even when you think you see what's coming. And if you think you see what's coming from Miller's Robocop, you're wrong. This is the Robocop story Frank Miller always intended, composed straight from his original writings and scripts. The vast majority of this material never made it onto the screen, but we're unleashing it in its full glory now. To think that there is this Miller story from just a few years after Dark Knight that has gone largely untold is amazing. We're working closely with Miller to get all of his original vision for the character into this comic book saga just the way he wants it, and he is overseeing and approving the entire process. We took this approach in a similar situation with Alan Moore's The Courtyard, and that series was one of the most critically-acclaimed and popular indy comics successes of the year so far, so I'm very confident we're hitting our marks on Miller's Robocop -- we're getting that pure Miller insanity into every drop of ink on the comic page."  (...continued in the Robocop section)

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