Skinbreaker Is a New Action Epic From Superstars Robert Kirkman and David Finch

Robert Kirkman and David Finch are easy 2 of the biggest names successful the comic publication manufacture close now. That said, they haven't truly worked unneurotic yet, unless you number Finch's covers for The Walking Dead Deluxe. That's yet changing acknowledgment to Skinbreaker, a convulsive caller enactment epic from Skybound and Image Comics.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview of Skinbreaker #1. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

The originative squad connected Skinbreaker besides includes colorist Annalisa Leoni (Invincible Universe: Battle Beast), and missive Rus Wooton (Transformers). The archetypal contented features covers by Finch, Ryan Ottley, Lorenzo De Felici, Eric Canete, and Tony Moore. Here's Skybound's authoritative summary of the caller series:

Enor has led his people for galore seasons, but his clip arsenic Chieftan is coming to an end. He wields the mighty SKINBREAKER, but astatine his age, helium tin hardly assistance it. Will Enor’s reluctant heir, Anok, instrumentality implicit earlier their satellite falls to ruin? As a bloody powerfulness conflict begins, an adjacent bigger menace lurks successful the acheronian beyond their village.

"I person wanted to enactment with David Finch for the entirety of my career,” said Kirkman successful a property release. “We’ve gotten adjacent galore times implicit the years, but we wanted our collaboration to beryllium thing genuinely special. Skinbreaker is that series. I consciousness similar this publication is simply a high-water people for some our careers. An enactment epic that is unrelentingly brutal but besides contains a ton of emotion and heart. It’ll daze you and marque you cry.”

Art by David Finch. (Image Credit: Skybound/Image Comics)

“Skinbreaker is simply a labour of love. It’s a communicative that resonated precise profoundly for me, and it’s been the privilege of my vocation to assistance bring it to life,” said Finch. “Everyone progressive has enactment each past ounce of effort into this publication and I couldn’t beryllium much excited and arrogant to yet stock it with you.”

Kirkman added, “David Finch is 1 of the top comic artists to ever live. This is the creator who made Moon Knight outsell Batman. Even a casual glimpse astatine immoderate of his enactment successful Skinbreaker volition beryllium to you that this is historical material. His enactment connected this bid has to beryllium seen to beryllium believed. It would beryllium intolerable to overhype it.”

Skinbreaker #1 volition beryllium released connected September 24, 2025.

Kirkman is besides engaged gathering retired the caller Energon Universe astatine Skybound, which combines Transformers and G.I. Joe with Kirkman and De Felici's bid Void Rivals. We deliberation Transformers has recovered occurrence by going backmost to the franchise's roots.

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