Scout Comics announced the upcoming release of META – Metalinguistic Crimes Division from Marcelo Sarava, Andre Freitas, and Omar Vinole which tells the story of the crime division tasked with investigating crimes related to fourth-wall breaks.
Here is the series description from Scout Comics:
Characters killing their authors. Authors trafficking their characters to be sex workers in the real world. Actors morally abusing characters they play. Real people illegally settling in cartoons so as to never age again. That’s just a regular Tuesday for our META agents. The Metalinguistic Crimes Division patrols the borders between our world and the many universes of comics, cinema, games, theater, literature, and other narrative media.
When a comic book artist is murdered in a weird fashion, META takes the case. Alan, the victim’s brother-in-law and a frustrated, wannabe writer, gets involved in the investigation, and discovers he can somehow enter comic books at will. He also starts unlocking repressed memories from his childhood, when he lived in several fictional worlds. Now, Alan and META need to work together to find Alan’s kidnapped sister, before she suffers the same fate as her late boyfriend.
“META is an ambitious project 10 years in the making, and I’m thrilled it will be my first entry to the US comic book market. I hope readers will find it as exciting to read as it was for me to conceive. A shout-out for Scout Comics for the partnership, which I believe will be the first of many. It’s great to know my baby is in the hands of a team of comic creators and enthusiasts. Also, I’ve talked to the characters in META—they said they’re pretty happy too… so there’s that,” said series writer Marcelo Sarava.
Meta #1 arrives in August 2022.
