Rick Remender will write a new creator-owned Image Comics title called The Scumbag that will place the fate of the planet – along with incredible super power &ndash🐎; in the hands of Ernie Ray Clementine, the worst, most unsavory jackass on Earth.
What'sඣ more, The Scumbag features not just one artist or even a single art team, with the first issue drawn by Lewis Larosa, and subsequent issues by artists such as Andrew Robinson, Eric Powell, Tula Lotay, Wes Craig, R💫oland Boschi, Simone Di Meo, Duncan Fegredo, Yanick Paquette, Mike McKone, Dave Johnson, and Moreno Dinisio.
, explaining the genesis of The Scumbag. "And none of them come anywhere near the league of bad choices as Ernie Ray Clementine, a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker, with a fifth-grade education, and the only thing standing between us and total Armageddon because this dummy is going to become the world’s most powerful super spy.""There’s a good reason he ends up with the codename: Scumbag. And, as his boss quickly realizes, until they can find a way to extract the serum that gave Ernie his super-spy abilities - the fate of the world rests inಌ th♏e hands of the worst person on it."
So what's to stop the worst guy in the world from getti🧔ng even more terrible once he's got super powers? Well, the scientists who developed the serum thought of that, says Remender, explaining "[The Scumbag's] powers only work when he’s operating under noble motivations, a safety precaution cooked in by the formula’s engineers."
The Scumbag #1 is due out in October.
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