Image Comics and Robert Kirk🦂man's Skybound will launch C.O.D.E. with artist Jason Howard ♏in August 4's , and the property will then follow in its own series.

The Skybound X anthology ser🍨ies, which coincides with the imprint🌠 and media studios' 10th anniversary, has featured a mix of new properties along with special stories from around the Skybound catalog.

According to ﷽Image and Skybound, C.O.D.E. is the story of humanity's struggle for survival in a technologica🎶l hellscape of a far-future by use of devices known as Combat Orb Defense Engines.

In what seems like a twist on properties like P🌸owers Rangers and Voltron, "seven orb wielders who hail from six different warring factions have set aside their differences to band together and carry out a mission that may be humanity’s last hope to thwart a technological menace that has nearly completely overtaken earth."

When Kirkman, the creator of and launches a new property, Hollywood is lik♈ely listening and comic book readers probably s♑hould be too.

According to Kirkman, he and Howard have be𓂃en developing C.O.D.E. for a long time with the intent of launching "the biggest, wildest thing we've ever done."

"This is the beginning of something truly ambitious that combines aꦍll the genres we love into one big super-powered epic," Kirkman says in the announcement. "There's no better way to end this celebration of Skybound's first ten years than to bring you somethin🐈g entirely new for the very first time."

C.O.D.E. reunites Kirkman and Howard who have were pai🎀red up on and , and the artist calls the new project an offspring of the shared comic book DNA between the creators. That is, if the offspring did nothing but "pꦅump iron and become awesome in an attempt to be worthy of your love!"

"Creating new characters is where my heart is at and I hope that C.O.D.E. will have characters as memorable to future🃏 fans as൩ those created in Skybound's past," says the artist.

The extra-length Skybound X #5 also features the final chapter of th▨e 'Rick Grimes 2000,' serial, as well as new stories from the worlds of  from Kyle Starks and Chris Schweizer, as well as  from Sean Mackiewiczꦆ and Niko Walter.

Six variant covers will be illustrated by David Finch, Chris Schweizer, and Howard, who will each 🧔draw a standard variant cover and an incen☂tive variant. 

Maybe C.O.D.E. will someday rank among the best non-Marvel or DC comic book superheroes.