A new Phantom 2040 comic series coming soon

For those picking up their free Phantom comic on Free Comic Day will get a pleasant surprise with an advert promoting a new Phantom 2040 comic series.

Information is sparse but this series looks to be a standalone series released by Comics Kingdom and not printed in a comic book series by Mad Cave Studios and or Moonstone. This comes on top of Fantomen and Lightning Strikes releasing their own digital comic book series in the last 6 months.

The advert says the series is online at the moment but at the time of writing, the series is not available on the Comics Kingdom website. We have been informed that it will appear on the website in the (northern hemisphere) summer of 2025 which will be June - August 2025.

The creative team is:

• Alex Segura (writer of series like Secret Identity, Dick Tracy and Mara Llave)

• Michael Moreci (Burning Fields, Dick Tracy, Star Wars)

• John Amor (Urban Animal)
  

For those who have come in late....

Phantom 2040 is an animated TV series with a comic book series and several other items like toys and video game based on the series. The central character of the series is said to be the 24th Phantom. It was aired from September 18, 1994 to March 3, 1996. We have interviewed Thom Schillinger who was one of the art directors of the TV show.

It is the year 2040, all environmental disasters and the economic Resource Wars from the early 21st century have decimated the fragile ecosystem balance of an Earth once teeming with life. Everywhere, the privileged and wealthy continue to thrive in expensive real estate developments that tower above the suffering masses. The victims of Earth's misfortune have been forced to subsist on scavenged refuse from the past on the mangled streets of forlorn city-states.

In Metropia (once known as New York City), the largest and most powerful of the city-states, the powerful robotics manufacturing corporation Maximum Inc. has slowly shaped a cold, steely urban center, consisting of huge, residential towers intertwined with TubeTrain tunnels. Maximum's robotic "biots" (Biological Optical Transputer System) have replaced enormous amounts of human labor, and the corporation is illegally producing prohibited combat biots to form Maximum's private underground army. Under this guise of efficient progress, Maximum has its own plans for the future, which it refers to as the Maximum Era. Through the construction of the fortress of Cyberville, an immense survival shelter where only the wealthiest and most elite humans will retreat, and the take over of Metropia by means of its biot armies, its plans ultimately involve the dark path of decline and extinction as the culminating result of man's prior errors and efforts, once Earth finally succumbs to its slowly deteriorating state.

The only hope for the survival of humanity is the Ghost Jungle — thousands of square miles of mutated vegetation that may be the planet's salvation. This secret source of life is submerged beneath Metropia, unseen by most. College student Kit Walker Jr. is chosen by fate to save the world, donning the black mask and purple suit of his people's savior, the 24th Phantom.