A press release from Michael Molcher of Rebellion Publishing:

In a vast clockwork solar system, a young girl must leave the safety of her home to search for the key to restarting the dimming sun.

2000 AD is bringing Ian Edginton and INJ Culbard’s vast clockpunk epic, Brass Sun, to North America with a six-issue US-format miniseries — a first for the legendary British publisher.

Beginning in May, this incredible new monthly series from the bestselling artist of New Deadwardians and the hit writer of Scarlet Traces and Hinterkind will include 30 pages of strip art in every issue.

The first issue is available to order now through Diamond, using code MAR141340.

Brass Sun has been an instant hit with 2000 AD readers thanks to its unique concept, vast imaginative landscapes, and fascinating strong female lead character. Edginton and Culbard have created an on-going series that readers of Saga, Hinterkind, East of West, Prophet, and Black Science will find intriguing.

The Orrery is a clockwork solar system where planets whirl on vast metal arms and the sun of cogs is worshipped as a god. But the sun is dying, the planets are freezing one by one, and cults burn as heretics those who warn of the danger. To save her home, young Wren knows she must first escape it and find the key to restart the sun.

2000 AD‘s first US-format series follows the success of the one-shot Dredd movie sequel comic book, Dredd: Underbelly, which sold out before hitting shelves in January and went to a second printing.

The mini-series will culminate in the collected trade paperback, which is being released to comic and book stores simultaneously in the UK and North American through Diamond in December.