Legendary Comics has announced a 3-book graphic novel sequel to Pacific Rim and Pacific Rim Uprising that will pick up on the franchise storyline and take it in bold new directions. With a new cover featuring the likenesses of Charlie Hunnam (Raleigh), John Boyega (Jake Pentecost), and Charlie Day (Newt), Pacific Rim: Final Breach is written by Joshua Fialkov (Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender) with art by E.J. Su (Transformers). Partnering with Rocketship Entertainment, the book trilogy is being pre-sold on Kickstarter paired with exclusive merchandise available only through the campaign.
Full details can be found over the project’s recently launched Kickstarter page.
Humanity faces its ultimate threat as the Precursors unleash a new wave of devastating Kaiju assaults on Earth in Pacific Rim: Final Breach! After years of failed attempts to enter the Anteverse, the trans-dimensional realm from which all Kaiju emerge, Jake Pentecost and Hermann Gottlieb conceive a daring last-ditch plan whose success hinges on finding legendary Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket—the only human being to ever survive behind enemy lines. Living in exile off the grid, Raleigh must choose assured annihilation or confront his past and team up with a new generation to pilot the brand-new Gipsy Destroyer, the last Jaeger standing. Tensions escalate and old wounds reopen as the PPDC finally crosses the breach to confront what lies on the other side… It’s time for humanity to meet its true enemy and cancel the apocalypse once and for all.
“When it was declared at the end of the last Pacific Rim movie that we were going to take the war to the invaders, that was a set-up we couldn’t resist bringing to the world of graphic novels. We are delighted to pick up on the canonical threads and tell a new exciting story for fans of the franchise in this 3-book series,” said Robert Napton, SVP, Comics & Publishing at Legendary Entertainment.
Joshua Hale Fialkov is an Emmy, Eisner, and Harvey Award-nominated writer of Graphic Novels, Television, Animation, and Video Games. Amongst his credits are The Ultimates, I, Vampire, The Bunker, and the Eisner-nominated Tumor. In television, he served as a writer on shows including Chicago Med, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Young Justice. He also served as the lead writer of the upcoming DC Heroes: United interactive series.
E.J. Su is an artist from Taiwan. Before signing with IDW Publishing as a comic book artist, he worked with Image Comics, where he co-created Tech Jacket with Robert Kirkman, and contributed Transformers art for Hasbro. In 2010, he left the comic book industry to become a full-time industrial designer. He later returned to work as a full-time freelance comic book artist. His love for 70s and 80s properties led him to work on titles such as Transformers, Voltron, Godzilla, and Ultraman for Marvel.
Legendary’s Pacific Rim is an epic, spectacle-driven universe in which we fight monsters by building monsters of our own. In the face of oblivion, humanity created Jaegers—massive, mechanized warriors piloted by our bravest and brightest from around the world—to defend against an invasion of colossal trans-dimensional creatures known as the Kaiju. Launching in 2013 with the Guillermo del Toro directed feature film of the same name, Pacific Rim spans film, television, comic books, novels, gaming, toys, and a global fanbase that is committed to canceling the apocalypse.
