Media release — As first exposed at The Washington Post, Valiant is pleased to present the first lettered look inside QUANTUM and WOODY! (2017) #1 – the first issue of the all-new and UNTRUSTWORTHY ongoing series from rising star Daniel Kibblesmith (The Late show with Stephen Colbert) and explosive artist Kano (Daredevil)!
Consider yourself warned… This winter, the world’s worst superhero team is careening back into action! On December 20th, on the heels of X-O MANOWAR (2017) #1, trick WEAPONS #1, BLOODSHOT salvation #1, and NINJA-K #1, Valiant’s “ICONS” initiative throws the comic book industry’s sense of propriety directly into the wood chipper for the most heartfelt, many eye-popping, and many punching-est superhero-action-family-drama-buddy-comedy throwdown of the year!
Sometimes… you embrace your destiny. and sometimes… you and your trouble-making embraced brother find yourselves trapped in a scientific lab explosion that grants you $@&%ing incredible super-powers. As a result of their accident, Eric and Woody Henderson – aka Quantum and Woody – need to “klang” their wristbands together every 24 hours or both dissipate into nothingness. which makes superhero-ing pretty uncomfortable when you’re not on speaking terms at the moment. See, Eric has been keeping a pretty big secret: He understands who Woody’s birth daddy really is… and where he’s been hiding all these years.
“They can’t really break up. They’re joined at the hip. nearly literally,” writer Daniel Kibblesmith told The Washington Post. “Part of that tension is, how long can you really keep up the silent treatment when you have to see this person every day?… You have this very functional reason that they’re battling and it’s kind of two stubborn people playing the function of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object.”
PLUS: In honor of Quantum and Woody’s upcoming overthrow of comic shops everywhere, Valiant can now “proudly” reveal that each of the new series’ first 12 problems will also feature extreme ULTRA-FOIL variations — a dynamic, new(ish) cover treatment featuring artwork by superstar artist Geoff Shaw (God Country) embossed and improved with AUTHENTIC COMICS FOIL FROM THE ’90s!
Available at the basic cover price without any minimum purchase qualifications for retailers, relive the face-melting radditude of the era that gloriously birthed Beavis and Butthead Ren and Stimpy Quantum and Woody into comics history with the very best foil covers ever created by a major comics publisher* as Valiant’s extreme ULTRA-FOIL variations kick nostalgia in the nards!
THEN: Don’t relax, we’re not with here yet… fans and collectors can get their chase on with Valiant’s extreme ULTRA-FOIL CHASE VARIANT subset! Each month, in the custom of comics’ many highly sought-after oddities and error editions, Valiant will produce a single, strictly LIMITED-RUN VARIANT of Geoff Shaw’s extreme ULTRA-FOIL artwork with A RARE, SPECIALIZED and supremely goofy ’90s FOIL!
BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE: QUANTUM and WOODY! (2017) #1 is also stating something it can’t take back with the most VARIANT COVER OF ALL TIME! – an unholy and experimental combination of comic book history’s many noted, notorious, and obnoxious cover gimmicks – chromium, lenticular, embossing, die-cutting, iridescent ink, and a lot more – on one highly limited, carefully crafted variant cover! In honor the most recent ongoing series from Valiant “ICONS”, Valiant is integrating AT least eight OF the most popular COVER enhancements ever created ONTO ONE COVER to create a singular piece de resistance that will forever enshrine the world’s worst superhero team in the record books for now and all time!
(Makes Italian kissing noise with fingers)
Featuring all-new cover artwork by Valiant superstar Clayton Henry (ARCHER & ARMSTRONG) and a cabal of top-secret special guests, the most VARIANT COVER OF ALL TIME! will be the first-ever embossed, lenticular, die-cut, individually hand-numbered, and chromium-enhanced comic book cover – all before being hand-stickered with a randomized fourth Valiant hero, and printed with two distinct foils and iridescent fifth ink!
On December 20th, the Valiant world gets the adjective-worthy superheroes it deserves, only in QUANTUM and WOODY (2017) #1 – featuring covers by Julian Totino Tedesco (Hawkeye), Geoff Shaw (God Country), Nick Pitarra (The Manhattan Projects), comics legend Neal Adams (Green Lantern/Green Arrow), and Clayton Henry (HARBINGER WARS) together with every single gimmick understood to man!
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QUANTUM and WOODY! (2017) #1
Written by DANIEL KIBBLESMITH
Art by KANO
Cover A (Standard) by JULIAN TOTINO TEDESCO (OCT171904)
Cover B (Extreme Ultra-Foil) by GEOFF SHAW (OCT171905)
Pre-Order edition by NICK PITARRA (OCT1null