One of the more offbeat titles of the Image Renaissance. THE HUMANS by Keenan Marshall Keller (Galactic Breakdown) and artist Tom Neely (Henry and Glenn Forever) will be collected in March at the popular $9.99 price point. Set in 1070 Bakersfield, it’s about a gang of bikers who are…apes. It’s biker exploitation action as you like with added MONKEYS.
“I just love me some biker flicks and exploitation/genre in all forms,” said Keller in an interview with Comicosity. “It wasn’t like I was trying to do an ape project and settled on them being bikers… The Humans were bikers from the start. It’s my love affair with the fringe, with outlaws and no-good-doer’s and made me focus on biker culture.”
Neely, whose art captures the energy and abandon of The Humans’ life on the road, has relished the chance to draw full-time. “I get up and draw monkeys and motorcycles all day and it’s the best,” he said. “It’s also really great collaborating with another artist – Kristina Collantes is doing the coloring and I love to see how she transforms my pages. I love my black and white drawings for this book, but they really don’t come to life to feel like a real comic book until Kristina’s colors complete the picture.”
THE HUMANS, VOLUME 1 will be in comic book stores on March 11 and in bookstores on March 25.
This cover has meets two of the criteria for the Donenfeld Theory of Comic Book Covers:
1) Simians
2) Motorcycles
Thus, it should sell very well!
Hopefully, future covers will include: dinosaurs, fire, the color purple, questions posed to the reader, a crying hero.
For more insight, read Mark Waid’s editorial in this issue:
http://www.comics.org/issue/46208/