The MCU’s founding chairman is launching a new shared universe for comics, film, and gaming

As announced at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Marvel Studios founding chairman David Maisel – one of the people initially responsible for making the MCU into the world-conquering success that it became – is launching a new shared comics universe known as Ekos. 

If you’ve been into comics a long enough time then perhaps that name sounds familiar to you. That’s because the new series, which launches with 120-page graphic novel Ekos Vol. 1, is based on characters and concepts created by the late artist Michael Turner and Geoff Johns for a comic that was due to be published in the early 2000s. Tragically, Turner passed away before that series could come to fruition.

Now Maisel’s Mythos Studio in association with Aspen Comics (which Turner founded in 2003) is developing the Ekos concept with a starry cast of creatives involved. Should it be successful, the plan is to also transfer the Ekos universe to film, animation, and gaming.

Ekos Vol. 1 comes from the creative team of writer J.T. Krul, artist Alex Konat, colorist Peter Steigerwald, inker Mark Roslan, and letterer Josh Reed, all under the stewardship of Maisel. It will also be supported by a slew of amazing cover artists including David Mack’s homage cover to his own Daredevil #15 (shown exclusively above), Alex Ross, Joe Quesada, J Scott Campbell, Francis Manapul, Joe Benitiz, Siya Oum, Jerome Opeña, Khary Randolph, Kendrick Lim.