I, Tyrant #1

Image Comics’ I, TYRANT Chapter 1: He Arrives.

SERIES PREMIERE There’s never been a right to return for a tyrant like Zahhak—only wander, madness, rot… But for a fleeting chance in fifteen centuries, amid the doom and decrees… the unburied and deformed ex-tyrant who once led the armies of Persepolis and slew the grandson of Xerxes has found an exodus. His name is Hafez Bashee—an Iranian college playwright who earned a fatwa on his head for bringing Zahhak to the stage in Tehran. The fatwa made Hafez an asylee in the United States. But good things are short-lived and now he’s on ICE’s removal docket. If he is deported, he’s dead.

Standing between ICE and Iran’s noose, a pact is whispered between the two. Zahhak gets his resurrection—a shot to walk among America’s comic book gods—and Hafez gets the devil’s protection. It’s the beginning of the end for things Hafez holds dear, and the start of Zahhak’s American reign.

"CREATION MYTH NEEDS A DEVIL," Part One introduces you to the world of I, TYRANT. The series debut will feature a line-up of hot variant covers by the industry’s A-Listers, including Jason Shawn Alexander (Spawn, Killdalephia), Riccardo Federici (Superman: The Warworld Saga), Stevan Subic (Batman: Full Moon, The Riddler: Year One), Hans Woody, and Ryan Gajda, alongside series rookie artist Godfarr.