They will be shipped after they arrive from the publisher. Items including but not limited to Hardcovers (HC), Trade Paperbacks (TPB/TP), Softcover (SC), Manga, Graphic Novels (GN), box sets are ordered at the time when a customer places an order. We do not guarantee release dates set by publishers. Release dates subject to change without notice. Eisner Award-winning writer Saladin Ahmed (Black Bolt- Miles Morales: Spider-Man) and acclaimed artist Sami Kivelä (Machine Gun Wizards) return to the Hugo Award-nominated world of Abbott. It will take everything she's got to find who (or what) is using dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit and stop them dead in their tracks. ![]() Abbott: 1979 #1 is set to arrive in stores and digitally in October.(W) Ahmed, Saladin (A) Kivela, Sami (C) Tenfold, TajĮlena Abbott is a tough-as-nails reporter with growing powers- but can she save the soul of an entire city? It's 1973 and Abbott's focused on the most important election in the city's history. ![]() “Ever since the series debut in 2018, Elena’s journey has been a prescient, harrowing look at American society through the lens of Detroit – and ABBOTT: 1979 carries on that tradition in brilliant and unexpected ways.”Ĭheck out the variant covers from Florentino and Malavia below. “We’re beyond thrilled to be working with Saladin and Sami again to bring ABBOTT back for its final chapter,” said Executive Editor, Eric Harburn. I hope the readers are as excited about ABBOTT: 1979 as I am!” said Kivelä. “It’s always a pleasure to return to Detroit with Elena. From the beginning I’ve imagined ABBOTT as a three-act story, and I’m positively thrilled to team with the awe-inspiring Sami to bring this story to its epic conclusion.” And it will take all Elena’s got to keep her own spark from being snuffed out. ![]() Now Detroit itself is being consumed - eaten alive by the Umbra. “ ABBOTT: 1973 left Elena in a grim place, and things have only gotten worse since - for her and her beloved city. “I couldn’t be more excited to bring you the next (and final!) chapter in the saga of hard-nosed reporter Elena Abbott, sorcerous savior of the city of Detroit,” said Ahmed. In a statement announcing the finale, Ahmed, Kivelä, and BOOM! Executive Editor Eric Harburn all expressed their enthusiasm at bringing the series to readers: Both series were award-nominated, with the first miniseries being a Hugo Award finalist for Best Graphic Story in 2019, and the team of Ahmed and Kivelä nominated for an Ignyte Award for Best Comics Team for the follow-up miniseries in 2022. A follow-up, Abbott: 1973, released its five-issue run in 2021. Dejected and tough tabloid reporter Elena Abbott, who previously defeated the occult forces responsible for her husband’s death, must dig herself out from rock bottom if she’s going to save Detroit from the Umbra, one last time… Elena will have to contend with the dark cloud hanging over Detroit… and over her own life.Īlong with a main cover by Taj Francis, Abbott: 1979 #1 will sport variant covers by Justine Florentino and Nimit Malavia, among others yet to be revealed.Īhmed and Kivelä’s Abbott launched its first five-issue miniseries from BOOM! in 2018. On the eve of the 1980s and the Reagan Administration, Detroit is burdened with an oppressive darkness–both political and supernatural.
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