Summit Presents will feature Juna Marris and Killstrike across its first three issues
With Summit Comics’ first crowdfunding campaign winding down, the publisher has its eyes set on its next round of publisher-owned titles. The next release comes in the form of Summit Presents, featuring a grouping of stories told in two- or three-part chunks, inspired by the Two-in-One tales of yore.
Summit Presents #1 is the start of a story with Juna Marris at the helm, Summit’s first company-owned character. Written by Karla Medrano and drawn by Marcus Jimenez, Juna Marris is a stunning examination of Juna’s psyche being the world’s most powerful superabled being.
“What a privilege to join such a powerful and relevant group of creatives! Summit Comics is doing what some publishers fail to do. Invite a black woman to write for a black woman,” Medrano says of her experience.
“There is a depth to our lived experience that cannot be imitated. The way we season our food carries history. The way we sing carries memory. Even the way we grieve carries our ancestors and the way we fly!! We have written dissertations about it,” she continues. “Juna is more than a fictional character that you geek out about. She is one of the few black female characters, among the well-known publishers, that will have her own ongoing run…imagine that”.
Juna’s story will be broken into three parts across Summit Presents #1-#3 this year before being collected in an oversized one-shot as a part of Summit’s Year One campaign in 2027. The first two parts will be backed up by a time-bending Killstrike story. Jimenez wrote and drew both parts of the story, which features the eponymous time-traveler coming toe-to-toe with a surprising adversary.
“I felt an overwhelming desire to draw Juna. The number one item on my bucket list is to draw Superman. The character that inspired my love of comics. Juna is probably the closest thing to that. She is the core of our universe and being the one to draw not only her first appearances but also her first story as a Summit Partner feels like a dream come true,” Jimenez adds.
About Killstrike he says, “Killstrike is based on the 90s archetype that spawned characters like Cable, who has never really been my kind of character. So being able to take this idea and approach it in an outside way with no real exposure to it, and take inspiration from so many other directions. While prepping for Killstrike, I read and took inspiration from Captain America, Darrow from Red Rising, and the stories of the Hispanic youth I grew up around. Killstrike is a love letter to them all”.
Summit Presents #3 will then lead directly into Summit: Pinnacle #2, due out Spring 2027. Keeping its promise to keep events limited and continuity clear, events will now be contained in annual Pinnacle issues, featuring over 100 pages of story featuring your favorite Summit characters each and every year.
That all starts with Summit: Pinnacle — The Black Assembly, which features the heroes of the Summit Universe joining forces for the first time to team up with Juna Marris to help her take down the titular Black Assembly, keepers of the enigmatic Ashlo’thar. The Black Assembly is being showrun, if you will, by Summit chief creative Adam Barnhardt and will feature at least ten interconnected stories in a collected event.
“The Ashlo’thar is a sickness that invades many of Summit’s stories across our Year One slate, popping in ways you’d never expect,” Barnhardt says. “The Black Assembly is all about addressing that metaphorical elephant in the room, and snuffing it out for good”.
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