I, Tyrant Volume 1

The no-holds-barred action of 300 meets Birdman's magical realism in this new series that presents a self-portrait of an Iranian expat and his ode to Miller, Kirby, and all comics Americana.
The lives of a struggling but madly ambitious Iranian playwright (Hafez Bashee) and an Arab serpent-king from 611 A.D (Zahhak) who once was given the power to halt death itself in its tracks become reticulated around a non-zero sum game.
Epic action and magical mythology clash when Zahhak—a fearsome legend infamous for his stark depiction of tyrants—proposes to Hafez to toss out the death-dealingly unpromising myth’s 7th C conclusion. Instead, Hafez must retell it with a Kirby exodus for Zahhak, to give his tale a Miller reboot in the comic industry. Hafez must also deal with the risk of deportation to Iran and going home to a past and a looming persecution he does not want to face.
Collects I, TYRANT #1-5

zann is a screenwriter and art director based in Los Angeles, by way of Tehran, Iran. When people hear Iran, they might recall Farhadi’s moral unendings, Panahi’s quiet defiance, or Rumi’s eternal verse and whatever Fox News yells out — not comics. zann is here to amend that. I, TYRANT marks his first-ever comics debut, launching with Image. He’s also out to upset a few important people and prove a handful wrong. Unstick ignorance. Stick around.