Leviathan Freedom: Check Out the New Sci-Fi Series From Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello

Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello is making his instrumentality to comics for the archetypal clip successful 14 years, and he's joining forces with Arrow enforcement shaper Marc Guggenheim and Spawn creator Szymon Kudrański. That's the star-studded originative squad down Leviathan Freedom, which delivers a sci-fi-flavored reimagining of the beingness of Civil War-era worker and person Robert Smalls.

IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of this Comixology Originals series. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

As mentioned, Leviathan Freedom is inspired by the beingness of Robert Smalls, a enslaved who escaped captivity by stealing a Confederate ship. Smalls' heroism helped person President Lincoln to let African-American soldiers to service successful the Union Army. Here's the authoritative summary of Leviathan Freedom:

“For arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember, I’ve been connected a ngo to unearth the stories of revolutionaries — the fighters, the visionaries, the ones past either buries oregon sanitizes beyond recognition," Morello said successful a statement. "Their courage, defiance and unwavering pursuit of justice, often successful the look of seemingly intolerable odds, person shaped the world, adjacent if their names are excessively often near retired of the narrative. Robert Smalls is 1 of those heroes. The thought of taking his revolutionary tone and launching it into the cosmos feels similar a cleanable hold of his fight.”

The archetypal section of Leviathan Freedom volition debut connected Comixology and Amazon connected June 16. You tin preorder the publication here.

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