FX (comics)


FX is a six-issue comic book limited series written and created by Wayne Osborne and drawn by John Byrne. It was published by IDW Publishing in 2008. Osborne, a lifelong comics fan, realized his dream by hiring Byrne, a prominent professional comics artist, to help create his own comic book title.

Publication history

FX was created by writer Wayne Osborne, who commissioned artist John Byrne to draw it. John Byrne made it known on his message board that he was open to full-comic commissions, at a cost of $20,000 an issue. Osborne hired Byrne; this was Osborne's first comic book. The production was done using the Marvel Method where the story is plotted, the art is drawn and then the script finalised because, as Byrne says, "that eliminated about 90% of the mistakes newbie writers make."
A follow-up series, FX: The Lost Land, was released as a graphic novel in December 2010 with art by Uko Smith.

Premise

Tom Talbot, a teenage boy, gains superhuman powers after being struck down by a mysterious accident. However, his powers are mostly limited by his imagination and he decides to become a superhero by the name of FX, while fighting his enemy Silverback.

Issues

  1. "Monkey Business"
  2. "Things That Go... CRASH...in the Night"
  3. "We've Got Spirits... Yes, We Do!"
  4. "Weird Science"
  5. "Myth-Understandings"
  6. "Full Circle"

Other editions

The series has been collected as a trade paperback:
  • ''FX''