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scientist modify their own bodies and become the world ’s first superheroes . Living the io9.com dream ? Well , yes , but it ’s also the set about ofWarren Ellis‘Black Summer , presently to be part of the next wave of superhero celluloid .

Summer , which was write from 2007 through 2008 by indie publishing firm Avatar Press , was Transmetropolitan and Planetary writer Ellis ’ attempt to better new ground for the superhero genre , stripping it of persistence and familiar fiber and trying to rebuild it for a new hearing . As he say ina 2007 interview :

There are still query to be asked of the superhero genre , but , after all these year , most of the ace left are pretty esoteric and involved . I was depend for the unsubdivided question , the one that gets to the heart of the primal feeling of hoi polloi disguising themselves and taking up arms to fight for justice with entire commitment . And the one I found had political expression but was basically honorable and moral . Where do you drag the line ? specially if you ’re a guy with the destructive potential of a fleet of Apache helicopter . If you ’re that hombre , you ’re not in it to govern . You do n’t see that as your job , and , in fact , that would foreclose you from doing your job . You operate on outside society to keep it honest . So where do you draw the line ? And where ’s the bank line before which you incarnate the scandalization of the mass and beyond which you become the veneration of the people ?

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Here ’s a cue to where the answer to that last part may lie : The story start with one of seven superheroes killing the President of the United States .

The moving picture adaption will be the first project from the brand new Vigilante Enterprises . No studio apartment , director or writers have been announced for the project yet .

Vigilante launching with ‘ pitch-dark Summer’[Variety ]

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