Comics writer Brandon Easton has been on the downlow for a minute, but he's stepped back into the game with a new project that he's hoping will inject some new life into the comics industry in general and into black-created comics in particular. He introduced his new project ShadowLaw at Chicago's Wizard World earlier this month, receiving immediate interest from publishers. We couldn't get him to spill who he's in negotiation with at the moment, but he plans to announce details of his new publishing contract in early September.
ShadowLaw, set in the not-too-distant future, follows the story of soldier Rictor Caesaro, sentenced to a concentration camp that we eventually learn is a farm for feeding humans to a powerful vampire cult.
Brandon started out in comics working on Arkanium with current wunderkind illustrator LeSean Thomas, as they both shared a love of old-school Marvel Comics and Japanese animation. Now he hopes to inject new life into a medium that is caught up in racial politics too constricting for Brandon's taste. Even given the industry's "unchecked racism," too many black writers and illustrators feel pressured to limit themselves to specifically black-only stories, Brandon contends, and many creators take much grief for straying from those narrow confines. Brandon hopes that his stories can operate at a number of levels, dealing with race and many other issues besides.
ShadowLaw is currently planned as a 4-issue comics release, and Brandon is working on a novelization that would deepen and widen the ShadowLaw universe.
