Titan Comics has announced that it is set to publish comedian Frankie Boyle’s graphic novel Rex Royd this September.
Collecting together the first seven chapters originally featured in CLiNT Magazine (a publication set up by Kick-Ass andKingsman creator Mark Millar), plus the final, never-before-seen chapters 8 and 9, this volume tells the whole, unexpurgated story of super-scientist, businessman and evil genius Rex Royd.
By day, Rex is the suave CEO of RexCorp, working alongside indestructible Alan Black, and Eve (yes, the original Eve). But by night, he is the scourge of superheroes, the Bilderberg Group and even God himself. All this plus memory implants, drug-addicted schizophrenics, sex-travelling aliens, Thunder God suicides – and more.
“I wanted to try to do something that came from the heart,” states Boyle. “The state-of-the-art in comics always seemed a bit linear and it seems so unambitious. I wanted to do different sections from an overall story you didn’t see all of. I just fucking love comics and I’m keen to develop the whole thing in the least comic book way possible! Rex is complex, but you don’t necessarily need to follow everything. I’m not asking the reader to work as much as have an open mind.”
Rex Royd is set for release on September 18th 2018.
