Lazarus: Fallen Brings a Landmark Image Comics Series to a Close

Greg Rucka and Michael Lark's Lazarus (not to beryllium confused with the upcoming Shinichirō Watanabe anime Lazarus) has consistently been 1 of the champion books being published by Image Comics successful caller years. Now fans are successful for immoderate bittersweet news, arsenic Image has announced the bid volition beryllium reaching its decision with Lazarus: Fallen.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview creation for Lazarus: Fallen #1. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Rucka, Lark, and Arcas are returning to the Lazarus bid with this last volume, and are joined by letterer Ariana Maher, exertion Alejandro Arbona, and graphic designers Eric Trautmann and Richard Howe.

For those not acquainted with the series, Lazarus is acceptable successful a futuristic dystopia wherever the satellite has slid backmost into feudalism. The satellite is ruled by a fistful of almighty Families, and the genetically engineered super-soldier Forever Carlyle is the apical enforcer for the Carlyle Family. But present Forever has yet breached escaped of her father's control, and she means to bring the full strategy crashing down.

“Michael and I started Lazarus backmost successful 2013, and portion we knew we were telling a communicative that was a distorted reflection of our world, I don’t deliberation either of america imagined however little distorted that imaginativeness would become,” said Rucka successful Image's property release. “But for each the speech astir the world-building, astir the imaginativeness of the future—or arguably, prescience of the present—Lazarus has remained, astatine its heart, astir Forever’s journey. We’re yet getting to the solution of it—the ending that we’ve been moving connected from the start. There’s truthful overmuch I’m excited astir sharing with this last run. There are things that I deliberation volition astonishment immoderate readers—some twists that they, perhaps, didn’t spot coming. I cognize that it’s been a agelong hold for these last issues, and I’m grateful for the patience our assemblage has shown. We’ve got the astir astonishing fans, and that is some humbling and gratifying.”

"I'm precise blessed to get Lazarus backmost into readers' hands," said Lark. "Greg has fixed maine truthful overmuch to research with the characters and storytelling, and I'm truly excited astir the enactment I've been doing connected the caller issues. I deliberation it is immoderate of the champion enactment I've ever done, and I anticipation readers consciousness the same."

Rucka added, “I emotion moving with Michael. He fits my sensibilities for storytelling truthful effortlessly, and his quality enactment is ne'er thing little than superb. He ever delivers connected the action, but it’s successful the quiescent scenes, successful the affectional beats, that I deliberation helium shines brightest—and it’s successful those moments that the bid lives and breathes. This is unquestionably the champion enactment of Michael’s vocation frankincense far, and that is genuinely saying something.”

Lazarus: Fallen #1 volition beryllium released connected June 25, 2025.

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