Drifter (Brandon) (Image)

A longtime Image Comics collaborator, Ivan Brandon, stepped up next. "It's been a couple years!"he said. "I think we ahve the best project to bring back to Image Comics. It's a very daunting group of folks that have been on this stage and are still coming out."Brandon's new book will see him once again team with artist Nic Klein, who worked with him on Viking. The new series is Drifter. "I'll give you the drift. Sorry, that one really hurt me,"Brandon joked. "We live on a planet that's not as infinitely scalable as we thought it would be. Eventually we'll have to move to different parts of the galaxy. Space is often presented as this glossy starched reality, and that's not really how a society is built. It's about the dirty hands that build the future. The frontier aspect of 'the new frontier' that hasn't been established quite as much in fiction. You can't really move a city through the vaccuum of space."

"We're really playing with the dirtier side of Science Fiction,"Brandon said.