Get a First Look at the Gorgeous New Comic From the Team BehindDie

Here at io9,we’re massive fansof Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans ’ fantastic RPG - revulsion series Die — an incredible , grippingly seditious taleof tabletop fantasies that was , in fact , so unspoiled at homaging the tabletop experience it just flat up became apretty great one of thoseeventually , too . But now , Hans and Gillen are back , for a very different story … but one that ’s just as captivating to depend at .

“ After we finish Die , we recognise we want to do something all different . Rather than a sprawling on-going , do something smaller , intimate , ego - contained , and really gross , ” Gillen recount io9 in a statement over email . “ So , in the middle of the covid lockdown , I was go away alone with my cat , star at them , and star at me , and thinking about the miracle of human relationship between beings of whole dissimilar kinds of intelligences , and the curiosity of the jump across that crack . The paradigm of the ferine lady friend in the desolation and the giant came apace after that , and we were away . ”

“ People will settle in love and have their mettle fail — the full Hans / Gillen experience , ” Gillen continued . “ Despite the post - apocalypse gear up the story has an almost unearthly - fable variety of vibe , and stop up basically as a conversation between The walk Dead and The Iron Giant . Basically , We Called Them Giants is the story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world . Folks have seen what Stephanie does on a month - by - month rush on an on-going comic . Here , it ’s a tingle to see her luxuriate — creating this individual long tarradiddle , and being able to determine the whole thing into a poignant , romanticistic , devastating single canvass . ”

Image: Stephanie Hans/Image Comics

“ As an creative person , it is always a delight to work on fresh challenge , especially when it is with such a great Writer . Kieron write an emotional story in which he get me go idle on design , ” Hans added in her own argument . “ It ’s a fresh , beautiful death of the world tarradiddle , a small bit epical , a moment nostalgic and a bit contemplative . It ’s nothing like we did before . In all the honorable way . ”

We foretell Them Giants is set to stumble shelves November 12 — click through to see just a few more coquette of Hans ’ gorgeous , painterly artwork from inside the leger .

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Image: Stephanie Hans/Image Comics