Tom Morello returns to the world of comics
In addition to being one of the most active and respected musicians, best known for his work with Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave and Prophets of Rage, Tom Morello he’s also great comics enthusiast. The guitarist now returns to that passion and that world with a new project titled “Leviathan FreedomIt is an epic science fiction story, inspired by the true story of the American icon Robert Smalls.
After making his comics debut in 2011 with the acclaimed “Orchid” series, Tom Morello joins forces with the writer and producer for his new work Marc Guggenheim (best known for “Star Wars: Jar Jar”, “The Whisper War”, “The Arrowverse”), the artist Szymon Kudranski (“Spawn,” “Punisher”) and letterer DC Hopkins. “Leviathan Freedom” is presented as a five-issue miniseries, published in Amazon’s “Comixology Originals” line of exclusive digital content. “Leviathan Freedom” will debut this summer.
“Leviathan Freedom,” which debuts this summer, is described as a sci-fi reinterpretation of Robert Smalls’ legacya man born into slavery who won his freedom by taking command of a warship confederate and leading himself, his family and others towards liberation. The first issue will feature a cover signed by Sedat Oezgen (“The Whisper War”), followed by those made by Szymon Kudranski.
“For as long as I can remember, I am committed to bringing the stories of revolutionaries to light – fighters, visionaries, those who history tends to bury or sweeten until they become unrecognizable”, declared Morello: “Their courage, their challenge and their tireless search for justice, often in the face of seemingly impossible odds, they shaped the world, even if their names are too often left out of the story. Robert Smalls is one of these heroes. The idea of taking his revolutionary spirit and launching it into the cosmos seems to me to be a perfect extension of his struggle.”
As we read in the presentation taken from “Blabbermouth”, in “Leviathan Freedom” the galaxy is divided by a civil war. And the profound human cost of the conflict is not felt in the command rooms, but among the Doldrums, the class of workers essential to the war machine, until one man decides to oppose. In this regard, Guggenheim added: “‘Leviathan Freedom’ wants to remind us that true freedom is rarely granted and very often must be conquered“.
