The Horizon Experiment

A comics anthology that puts a new, diverse spin on popular genres and pop culture icons.

THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in Miami, and an Evil Dead for black nerds.

Everyone’s challenge was the same: Create a protagonist from a marginalized background in a popular genre where if their background changed, so did the entire story.

THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT stories include:

The Manuchurianby Pornsak Pichetshote, Terry & Rachel Dodson: a thriller featuring a Chinese super spy by inspired by James Bond.

The Sacred Damnedby Sabir Pirzada: a love letter to classic horror and follows a Muslim exorcist.

Moon Dogsby Tananarive Due: a family of Black lycanthropes of East African descent find themselves caught in a war when the truth comes out that werewolves aren’t just a myth.

Motherf#cking Monsters by J. Holtham & Michael Lee Harris: a nerdy Black kid from Brooklyn and his friends stumble upon demon-worshipping frat brothers trying to take over the world.

Finders/Keepers by Vita Ayala: a reverse Indiant Jones adventure that follows an archeology grad student who steals artifacts from museums to return them to their native cultures.

Pornsak Pichetshote started his career as a Thai-American rising star editor at DC’s Vertigo imprint, his books being nominated for dozens of Eisner awards -- from the award-winning Daytripper to critical darling Sweet Tooth. He left Vertigo to become an executive in DC Entertainment’s media team, where he started and oversaw DC’s TV department. His critical and commercial horor book INFIDEL marked his first major work as a comics writer.

His current work with Image Comics is the Eisner- and Harvey-winning THE GOOD ASIAN, which he’s currently adapting for television with James Wan’s Atomic Monster.

Sabir Pirzada is a Pakistani writer and the creator/writer of the forthcoming graphic anthology Dandelion. He is known for his work in TV writing on such hit shows as Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, Roswell New Mexico, and more. Pirzada also wrote Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant and co-wrote the comic book miniseries Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace with Iman Vellani.

Terry Dodson is an Oregon-based creator known for working on Harley Quinn, Spider-Man, Star Wars, Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, Count Chocula and the Image Comics series RED ONE with Xavier Dorison and ADVENTUREMAN! with Matt Fraction.

Terry works with his wife, Rachel, who adds her talented inking to his work.

Michael Walsh is an Eisner Award-winning artist and writer from Southern Ontario, Canada.

In 2013, Michael broke into comics with the Image Comics book series COMEBACK. Shortly after, Michael contributed art on a follow-up comic to the hit television series The X-Files for IDW. Then, in the following years, he worked primarily with Marvel Comics on superhero properties such as Spider-Man, The Avengers and the X-Men. He also adapted the Star Wars film The Last Jedi as a comic book mini-series. And created art for the DC/Dark Horse crossover event comic, Black Hammer/Justice League.

In 2021, Michael returned to creator-owned comics, creating the hit ongoing Image series THE SILVER COIN and the viral webcomic The Sleep Stories. In 2022, he released his middle-grade fantasy original graphic novel The Oates & The Elphyne, published by Humanoids BIG.