Eighty yr ago Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann , imprisoned in the Nazis ’ Czechoslovakian ghetto at Terezín , write Der Kaiser Von Atlantis , a one - number opera that imagined a earth wherethe famed underwater kingdomnever really sunk . While the two did n’t endure to see their workplace perform , now it ’s been transformed into a genre - mixinggraphic novel .
io9 can reveal that Dark Horse Comics ’ Berger Books will release Death Strikes : The Emperor of Atlantis , adapt by the EFF ’s Dave Maass and artist Patrick Lay , this fall . Like the opera house that pep up it , Death Strikes will visualise Kien and Ullmann ’s dystopian world where the unsunken Atlantis has become a tyrannical fascistic entity , declaring warfare on the human beings around it . As the dead body pack high , Death itself go on a toil smasher , pass to a forever war where mass keep fighting but ca n’t really die — go to the flavour of animation itself to go on a pursuance to put an end to this endless hellscape .
“ With the frightening raise of anti - Semitism , book - ban and political execration of the ‘ other ’ , Dave and Patrick ’s powerful adaptation of this drab and dramatic caustic remark about the ravages of warfare and fascism finger as relevant today as when it was create 80 days ago , ” editor Karen Berger said in a jam going leave to io9 . “ It ’s a noteworthy story that , despite or possibly because of the tragic circumstances in which it was created , is underscored with hope and manhood . ”
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Maass and Lay ’s pictorial novel — featurirng fictional character designs by Ezra Rose and inscription by Richard Bruning — will also admit diachronic essay and pic looking at Kien and Ullmann ’s lives at Theresienstadt , and how Der Kaiser Von Atlantis come through the net years of the war and beyond . Also include will be Kien ’s own artwork and picture taking , giving a personal insight into one of the men behind the original opera .
“ Written in a concentration bivouac , Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann ’s opera is the straight form of aesthetic resistance , a middle digit to the Nazis and all authoritarians across story , ” Maass said in a provided press release . “ By adapting this fierce , genre - blend in irony , we desire to introduce this nearly lost masterpiece to new interview – and to challenge the tyrants of today . ”
“ We ’ve incorporate Peter Kien ’s own unbelievable artwork , excellent type intent by Ezra Rose and the architecture of Terezín and Prague to craft visuals draped in conk shadow , smoke and vapor , ” Patrick Lay added . “ From the book ’s ‘ Realm of the Unreal ’ to the streets of Atlantis , the story of resistor against oppression and censoring is grain in the public . ”
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Death Strikes : The Emperor of Atlantis will be released November 7 , 2023 in book memory , and November 8 in comic shops .
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