Just ten years earlier, former President John Quincy Adams had warned that any conflict with Mexico would be chancy, particularly given the likelihood that Native American nations and enslaved people would ally with the other side. authorities anticipated that native peoples would remain powerful geopolitical players in the West for the foreseeable future.”īut, Isenberg and Richards write, this was not conventional wisdom at the time.

Look for Manifest Destiny Book 1 Deluxe HC to arrive in comic shops on Wednesday, November 8th and in bookstores on Wednesday, November 15th.“Mid-century U.S. It’s a great story and I’m thrilled to see it all together and get the big fancy hardcover treatment.”

I love what we all were able to pull off. Then to know that I’ve got Owen, one of the most dazzling colorists in the game, coming in behind me? And THEN we have Pat on letters to tie it all together? Crazy. As an artist, being presented with such confident and compelling scripts from Chris and then being given the freedom to take risks and follow impulses as I draw is a dream. “I love this book and working with this team for the past decade has been amazing. I hope readers have as tremendous an adventure on the trail as we had blazing it.”

It was an honor to work with Robert, David, Sean, and the team at Skybound and a real deal, super-serious dream come true to have them present Manifest Destiny in this Hardcover Edition. “After spending a decade on this book with the stellar crew of Matt, Owen, and Pat, I can honestly say it was the journey of a lifetime.

Manifest Destiny brought Lewis and Clark’s expedition to its blood-soaked conclusion at the end of 2022 after a historic nearly decade-long run, and now fans can celebrate the 10th anniversary and own a definitive piece of the series that created an alternate history of the United States.įor writer Chris Dingess, this project has been an incredibly meaningful experience. When the series debuted with issue #1 on November 13, 2013, Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts began to tell an action-adventure epic of a new monster birthed right in the heart of America. This is the untold story of what they discovered lurking in the wilds. In 1804, Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark set out on an expedition to explore the unchartered American frontier so their great nation could fulfill its destiny. Here’s the official description from Skybound:

Manifest Destiny #11 by Chris Dingess