Coldplay announced Tuesday that they will launch their first issue of the comic book Mylo Mylo Xyloto at the San Diego Comic-Con. The first issue of 6 part series will tell the origin story of Mylo Mylo character, who is also the main character of the book. The comics will be written by Coldplay and co-writer director Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda), Osborne said “the latest expression of a music-driven feature animated film that the band and I started developing several years ago” about the series. In Coldplay’s website, Osborne provided a hint at the story involving their character Mylo Xyloto, and how it ties back into the band’s album:
Please could you give us a brief snapshot of the plot/scenario?
Well, all I will say is it is the story of Mylo Xyloto, a young Silencer on the front lines of a war against sound and color in the world of Silencia. Mylo discovers that the enemy he’s been trained to hate his whole life might not be the enemy after all.
Tell us a bit about Mylo Xyloto himself?
Like many Silencers, he was raised in an orphanage and conditioned to be a Silencer from a very young age. Legions of Silencers were created after the Great War of Colors took many lives, including the lives of Mylo’s parents Aiko and Lela. That war threatened the safety of the citizens and strict measures were put in place to ensure it would never happen again. At the start of our story, Mylo is not so sure that all the propaganda and strict measures are legitimate, but he keeps these concerns close to his vest since they are just vague feelings that even his best friend Rex can’t quite support.
Does Major Minus really have one eye watching us?
Let’s just say that each Hypnofeed helmet only has one camera lens to show each wearer the world around them safely depicted in black and white. Those camera feeds aren’t just directed inside the user’s helmet…
