Curt Pires has built up a huge fan following in the comic book scene for his inventive work on books like the Star Wars/Tarantino mash-up Galactic and the Pokémon-spoofing Creature Corps. Pires is now teaming with artist Ryan Quackenbush (Junior Baker the Righteous Faker) for a new Image Comics graphic novel called Content, and it’s a book that’s perfect for our current age of mindless content consumption and rampant AI use.
IGN can exclusively reveal a new preview of Content. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below, but beware of some NSFW language:
Image Comics’ Content: Exclusive Graphic Novel Preview
Here’s Image’s official summary of Content:
Fan-favorite creators Curt Pires (Creature Corps, Fireborn) and Ryan Quackenbush (Junior Baker the Righteous Faker) will team up for an all-new, original graphic novel titled, Content.
Inspired by Pires’ own time in the Hollywood dream factory, Content is set in the age of the infinite scroll. The perfect read for fans of Severance, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and The Social Network.
In a near-future ruled by streaming services, Trip Cruise is the most valuable mind in entertainment and the visionary architect behind the world’s biggest platform: Content. But when an experimental AI helmet meant to extract stories straight from his brain malfunctions, Trip becomes trapped inside the system he built: forced to navigate an endless hellscape of shows and fragmented memories.
His only shot at escape? Margot, his junior programmer and the only person with a strong enough human to him to take a shot at saving him. Together they’ll have to outsmart the machine designed to replace them or risk getting permanently deleted from existence.
Content will be released in comic shops on February 17 and in bookstores on March 16. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop.
Also hitting stores in February 2027 are Batman: Reign of Assassins and a new Sabrina the Teenage Witch storyline.
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