'Fused' launches from Image in March, 2002

Sun, November 11th, 2001 at 12:00am PST

Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer/Publisher

Official Press Release

Creator and Writer, STEVE NILES brings fans FUSED!, an exiting new comic series through Image Comics. Lending their skills to ensure stunning art and visuals accurately convey this exciting story of intrigue and suspense are long-time creative teammates: penciller NAT JONES, inkers KEVIN CONRAD & RICH BONK, and colorist TODD BROEKER.

FUSED SYNOPSIS:

A young robotics engineer, Mark Haggerty becomes the unwilling pawn of a

scientist on the run from rogue factions of the government. In the course

of routine test, Mark becomes permanently fused with an experimental robot

suit and then finds himself accused of murder and the target of a worldwide

manhunt.

Now on the run, separated from his wife and rapidly becoming amalgamated

with this complex exo-skeleton machine, Mark falls under attack from

misguided military forces and a special unit of government-sanctioned

superheroes.

The day before, Mark Haggerty was a simple man, peace-loving and gentle.

Now trapped inside a powerful, indestructible shell, he will long for