The Grammy-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, and activist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage is returning to comics for Leviathan Freedom, an all-new sci-fi epic inspired by the true story of American icon Robert Smalls. Morello first made his comics debut with the acclaimed series Orchid in 2011. Now, the lifelong comics fan is uniting with Emmy award-winning writer/producer Marc Guggenheim (Star Wars: Jar Jar, The Whisper War, The Arrowverse), artist Szymon Kudrański (Spawn;Punisher) and letterer DC Hopkins for a five-issue mini-series event from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line. Leviathan Freedom will debut this summer.
Leviathan Freedom is a sci-fi reimagining of the legacy of Robert Smalls, a man born into slavery who seized his own freedom by commandeering a Confederate warship, sailing himself, his family, and others to liberation.
“For as long as I can remember, I’ve been on a mission to unearth the stories of revolutionaries—the fighters, the visionaries, the ones history either buries or sanitises beyond recognition,” said Tom Morello. “Their courage, defiance, and unwavering pursuit of justice, often in the face of seemingly impossible odds, have shaped the world, even if their names are too often left out of the narrative. Robert Smalls is one of those heroes. The idea of taking his revolutionary spirit and launching it into the cosmos feels like a perfect extension of his fight.”
In Leviathan Freedom, the galaxy is divided by civil war. And the profound human cost of conflict is felt not in the war rooms but by the Doldrums, the laborer caste essential for the war machine–until one man decides to stand against it.
“Leviathan Freedom comes as a reminder that true freedom is rarely given and very often must be taken,” says Marc Guggenheim. Guggenheim is currently writing The Whisper War, a five-issue sci-fi mystery thriller available from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line which is illustrated by Sedat Oezgen (Savage Sword of Conan), colored by Carlos Cabrera, and lettered by Dave Sharpe.
Leviathan Freedom will begin this summer from Comixology Originals’ exclusive digital content line and features covers by Szymon Kudrański.
Current Comixology Originals releases include The Adequates by Eisner Award-winner Lee Loughridge (MidState) and Marz Jr.(Transformers: Worst Bot Ever); GhostBox: Black & White by bestselling writer Mike Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts) and artist Pablo Raimondi (Sacred Creatures); Parapsychologist, the comedic paranormal, psychotherapy-themed graphic novel by HUGO award-nominated cartoonist Taki Soma (Alienated), co-writer Mark Schey and artist Cat Farris (The Great Train Haunting); and The Whisper War by Guggenheim and Oezgen.
