Echoing their famous series of 1978 solo albums, this
March, legendary rockers KISS take to solo adventures in a new miniseries from
IDW Publishing! Further exploring the deep mythology that’s made the Kings of
Rock hold dual citizenship as Kings of Comics, this year, The-Four-Who-Are-One
must take up arms alone against a slew of dynamic enemies and evil forces.
Spread out across four dimension-shattering issues, this
face-melting slew of hard-rocking comics tectonics kicks off with KISS SOLO:
THE DEMON, a tale starring Gene Simmons’ classic alter ego, The Demon! Veteran
KISS writer Chris Ryall and fan-favorite Kiss artist Angel Medina, rejoining
the band for the first time since Kiss: Psycho Circus, weave another tale of
epic bombast and explosive rock and paving the way for the accompanying tales
of the Starchild, the Celestial, and the Catman!
“We’ve turned KISS into gangsters, barbarians and teenage
girls so far in our KISS comics,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative
Officer, “but now it’s time to give everyone the unfettered KISS over these
four issues. Issue one sees the Demon taking on none other than the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and no one draws widescreen apocalyptic action
better than Angel Medina. It’s a thrill to have Angel back in the KISS fold.”
In addition to providing full art on issue one, Medina is
on board for covers for all four parts of the solo series. To further give
longtime fans a bit more, each issue’s storyline and title is culled from the
original solo album songs, such as issue one’s “Radioactive.”
Continuing a comics partnership as fruitful as it is
sonically booming, the solo series is a must-have for comics fans and members
of the KISS Army. After all, rocking ‘n’ rolling all night and reading comics
every day sounds like a pretty solid plan, doesn’t it?