![]() “It’s been fun to dive back into the world of ABBOTT. When he’s not hunched over his drawing table, Kivelä enjoys music, movies, and reading comics. Kivelä is known for his work on series such as Undone By Blood from Aftershock Comics, Machine Gun Wizardsfrom Dark Horse Comics, Beautiful Canvas from Black Mask Studios, and Deer Editor with Ryan K Lindsay. Sami Kivelä is a comic book artist from Finland. But while Elena’s powers have grown, they may not be enough to stop the shadows that have seized those closest to her-shadows that threaten to engulf the whole city.” “It’s 1973, Elena is living her best life with Amelia, and Detroit is preparing to elect its first Black mayor. “I’m ridiculously thrilled to bring readers a new chapter in Elena Abbott’s life! The first series generated incredible excitement and energy, and we’ve fed off of that to bring you an even bigger story,” said Ahmed. Saladin currently writes Miles Morales: Spider-Man and The Magnificent Ms. His novel Throne of the Crescent Moon was nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and British Fantasy awards, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and is cited in the Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook. His short fiction has been anthologized by George RR Martin and performed by LeVar Burton. Saladin Ahmed won the 2017 Eisner Award for Best New Series alongside Christian Ward for Black Bolt. Now Abbott must exhaust all her abilities as a reporter and a supernatural savior to rescue Detroit-but at what cost to her own life? But when someone uses dark magic to sabotage the campaign of the prospective first Black mayor of Detroit, it becomes clear to Abbott that the supernatural conspiracy in her city is even greater than she ever imagined. Debuting in January 2021, this new five-issue series returns to the Hugo Award-nominated world of Abbott, as the eponymous unstoppable reporter tackles a new corruption taking over Detroit in 1973 and the supernatural threat behind it.Įlena Abbott is one of Detroit’s toughest reporters-and after defeating the dark forces that murdered her husband, she’s focused on the most important election in the city’s history. LOS ANGELES, CA (October 13, 2020) – BOOM! Studios today announced ABBOTT: 1973, a new series from Miles Morales: Spider-Man mastermind & Eisner Award-winning writer Saladin Ahmed and acclaimed artist Sami Kivelä ( Machine Gun Wizards), with colorist Mattia Iacono and letterer Jim Campbell. You can check out an interview with the extremely talented Ahmed on the origins of Abbott here, and if you’d like, you can see several covers and read the full press release from BOOM! Studios about Abbott: 1973 below. While Abbott has been living idyllically with Amelia (they even have a dog now), she nevertheless must return to her beat as the only reporter standing between her city and the encroaching evil! The upcoming second volume will see an important election in Detroit – one that could lead to the city’s first Black mayor – being sabotaged by the supernatural. ![]() You can catch up with the first volume of Abbott now, which between the supernatural element and the torn-from-the-headlines corrupt authorities angle is an ideal read for autumn 2020. As one might expect from the hard-boiled crime genre, Abbott soon discovers that the violence is connected to a larger conspiracy – one that has already taken too much from her personally.
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