Broken Frontier

Heroic Publishing has announced a January 2006 release date for the first issue of Roy Thomas's new alternate-reality World War II adventure comic book, ANTHEM.

ANTHEM, by Roy Thomas and artists Daniel Acuna and Jorge Santamaria Garcia, is a darker saga of an alternate Earth, and of the super-heroes who were created to save it. In this world, Pearl Harbor wasn't just an attack by Japanese planes on a sleepy Hawaiian base. It was a full-blown assault on the US West Coast by Imperial Japanese forces spearheaded by a towering monster that could mop up the ocean with Godzilla, and on the East Coast by Nazi shock troops . . . and ray-firing flying saucers!

Driven back into the American interior, the desperate US survivors spawned Project Anthem, creating a handful of young superheroes, some of whose powers and names reflected the words of "The Star-Spangled Banner": Dawns Earlylight, Amerindian super-archeress; Stars & Stripes, two twins with very special abilities; "Rockets" Redglare, a flaming human rocket; BombBurst, a very explosive warrior; Liberty, a living incarnation of the proud statue the enemy destroyed in New York Harbor; and Stonewall Jackson, a living being of rock from south of the Mason-Dixon line. Led by the mysterious Agent 76, they battle the forces that have conquered Europe and Asia and now mean to trample America as the last hold-out of freedom. And they've got the power to do it!

Only thing is, the Axis forces have been devoping super-beings of their own, and they have an ace up their sleeve that will give even Agent 76 and the young heroes of Anthem a run for their money.