Send In The Drones

It's been a few years in the making. Here is the YouTube trailer from 2012…

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfAIV4cLLow[/youtube]

Drones was a five issue series, with three issues self published from Epicgamics and a successful 2013 Kickstarter appeal saw the whole comic collected.

But from April 2015, IDW will be serialising it again in five issues.

Publisher: IDW PUBLISHING

(W) Chris Lewis (A) Bruno Oliveira (CA) Ramon Villalobos

Two former predator drone operators face insurgency and insanity on the Las Vegas Strip in the surreal surroundings of the world's first terrorism-themed hotel!

What does that mean? Well, it means lots of preview art is already out there. The first issue uses the Kickstarter collection cover art…. but there's loads more… and a greater idea of what the comic is actually about.

This five-issue miniseries follows two Predator drone operators who hunt Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan from the safety of a base outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. After a failed mission, the war hits home in a bizarre journey that will take them from a terrorism-themed hotel to a drone-filled sky over the Strip. As part of a stage show you've just got to see to believe, Las Vegas starts to resemble Afghanistan, and the drone operators must confront the absurd nature of a war where terror and entertainment have begun to blur.

In addition to our two drone operators, we have a pancake-loving terrorist turned playwright, a loveable expert in improvised explosive devices, five well dressed assassins, a goat who just might know a thing or two about kung fu, an acrobatic special forces troupe called the Cirque du SEALs, surveillance up the wazoo, and a new kind of poppy that's going to blow some minds.