Fan-favorite cartoonist Simon Roy (Prophet, Griz Grobus) will return to his popular Griz Grobus Universe in 2026 with a new science-fiction collection: A Star Called the Sun.
Buckle up, folks! Image Comics has just announced that Simon Roy will return with an all-new rich and spectacular set of sci-fi stories in the form on A Star Called the Sun, which will revisit the same far-future universe as Simon’s previous works—Habitat and Griz Grobus.
The paperback features colours by Sergei Nazarov and Drew Shields.
A Star Called the Sun charts a kaleidoscopic journey through the future of humanity and technology across cosmic tales: “Hale-Bopp,” “The Oxpecker and the Elephant,” “Pride of the Central Republic,” “A Portrait of the Artist as Hive Parasite,” “The Ansible,” “The Anchoress,” and finally “Vanguard.”
“This collection is a love-letter, of sorts, to the pulp sci-fi novels I grew up reading and loving, as well as the authors I became obsessed with later in life,” Roy said in a statement. “The short story itself, as a format, provides a punchy, concise way to dig into the stranger, more esoteric corners of science fiction without getting bogged down in all the mechanisms of a longer-form plot. Moreover, the process of making these brief comics tends to be carried a bit more by inspiration—which made all these stories an absolute pleasure to create!”
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The paperback launches February 24 from Image Comics. We’ll keep you posted on all the latest updates, including first looks when they’re available. Will you be picking it up? Tell us in the comments down below!
