The characters of Mad Max: Fury Road, fill the big screen with action, but they’ve been on director George Miller’s mind for so long that each has his or her own rich backstory. The cinema screen isn’t big enough to hold them all, which is why Miller is bringing these residents of the Wasteland to comic books.
A series of Mad Max prequel stories from DC Entertainment’s Vertigo Comics imprint kicks off Wednesday looking at the earlier days of Fury Road’s prime players, beginning with the villainous overlord Immortan Joe (played by Hugh Keays-Byrne in the movie) and Nux (Nicholas Hoult), one of the Immortan’s loyal War Boys.
An issue focusing on Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and how she met the Immortan’s brides, women chosen to bear a worthy male heir for the ruler, arrives June 17, and two chapters focusing on Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) and a hazardous trip to Gastown — and Thunderdome Plus — come out July 8 and August 5. (A special hardcover edition collecting all the stories is in stores Aug. 26.)
