John Ridley, a writer, and Georges Jeanty, an artist, will reunite to work on a new six-part monthly comic series. Vertigo, an imprint at DC Entertainment, has set the release date for Summer 2017.
The collaborators intend to create The American Way: Those Above and Those Below (a sequel project). Back in 2006, Ridley and Jeanty first came together to create the eight issues that make up The American Way comic series. In 2013, Ridley served as the screenwriter behind 12 Years a Slave and won an Oscar in the “best adapted screenplay” category.
Here’s more from the press release: “The American Way: Those Above and Those Below tracks an alternate timeline in which costumed superheroes—once paragons of the Establishment—fall into disgrace during the turmoil of the 1960s following the Kennedy assassination, the Kent State shootings and the public’s growing cynicism over the lies of its leaders. Enter Jason Fisher, once known as the New American—one of the few ‘heroes’ who still operates openly after the disbanding of the Civil Defense Corps (CDC), the former governmental agency that oversaw America’s greatest propaganda tool: its costumed heroes. Jason takes on a quixotic mission, championing the disenfranchised in inner-city Baltimore.”