"Following up on the success of "Irredeemable," his Peter Krause-illustrated series starring a Superman-esque superhero going very, very wrong, comics veteran and BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid launches a new ongoing series from the other side of the spectrum in December. "Incorruptible" stars a bad guy inspired by a hero's fall to turn over a new leaf, as costumed evildoer Max Damage takes on a new identity in both name and deed. CBR News spoke with Waid about the new series, his two titles' shared universe, and other adjectives his name might bear. In "Irredeemable," now on its eighth issue, the Plutonian has cracked under the weight of his own mistakes as well as public and personal criticism, murdering his teammates in the Paradigm, devasting the Sky City metropolis he had called home, and striking terror in the hearts of heroes, villains, and ordinary citizens the world over. The surviving heroes search for answers to the Plutonian's most closely-guarded secrets in a desperate quest to neutralize him, but the Plutonian always seems to be one step ahead - and the body count continues to rise. As "Incorruptible" opens, readers find that the villainous Max Damage's decision to go straight has come as a direct result of experiencing first-hand the formerly-heroic Plutonian's wholesale destruction of Sky City. "It was like being in Katrina, at ground zero, in the middle of it. He was in the thick of the Sky City destruction, and it was such an epiphany for him," Waid said. "A villain is a villain, but even villains want the world to survive. Even the most remorseless villains have some regard for small children and animals. And it doesn't benefit him at all if this mad god really does destroy the world. He's in a position of, nobody else is going to step up. As far as he's concerned, the rest of the Paradigm guys have been beaten by the Plutonian, they're pretty much off the radar, and there's really nobody else to step up. If nobody else is going to do it, he's going to do it." It is at this point that Max Damage becomes Max Danger and embarks upon a more noble path." - RAPatton

"Other members of the "Incorruptible" cast include Max's less-heroic teen sidekick, Jailbait, and his police liaison of sorts, Lieutenant Armadale."Lieutenant Armadale is a high-ranking officer in the police department and the only guy who actually believes that Max has gone straight," Waid said. "He's working from the inside to make Max's reform and transition a little bit smoother, and that has a lot to do with Armadale's own paths, his own skeletons in the closet - the truth of Armadale, as we'll see, is he's a guy that desperately, desperately, desperately needs redemption. On some level, he feels like, if Max can genuinely turn a corner, that gives him hope that maybe he can, too."" - RAPatton

I've enjoyed Irredeemable, so I up for this one - RAPatton

That looks really awesome - I hadn't heard about the first. I think I have some comic-homework to catch up on :) - Jennifer Dittrich

Premise wise, not too different from Brubaker's Incognito, which was very good - RAPatton

I'm going to have to give this and the first title a try. - MoTO Bott