Joe Pruett revives 'Negative Burn'

The Negative Burn anthology will return, courtesy of Desperado Publishing and IDW.

The series, which was founded in 1993 by editor Joe Pruett, will be published as an annual graphic novel.

"I simply don't have the time required to produce Negative Burn on a regular schedule like I did back in the Caliber days," Pruett told CBR.

"I tried to do it with the second Negative Burn series through Desperado and Image, but I found that since I couldn't devote the needed time to recruit the talent like I used to that the book suffered from quality and detail. There were a couple of embarrassing mistakes on my part that made me realise that I just couldn't do it any longer.

"The yearly trade format offers up a solution to my problem. I can take a year to organise and prepare a volume, which allows me the opportunity to make sure that each volume I put out is exactly how I want it to be."

The first new format volume is out in June, and will feature work from creators including Michel Fiffe, Phil Hester, Peter Krause, Jeff Limke, John McCrea and Patric Reynolds.

Negative Burn originally ran from 1993-1997 under Caliber Comics, with an Image/Desperado-led resurgence from 2006 to 2008.