Vicarious #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeVicarious #4 serves as the penultimate chapter of Ryan Parrott's first creator-owned original series at BOOM! Studios — a meaningful milestone for a writer who had previously worked exclusively on licensed properties such as Mighty Morphin Power Rangers at the publisher. The issue deepens the series' central meditation on identity, duality, and the commodification of lived experience, pushing protagonist Justin Bright to a moral crossroads from which the official solicit warns he may never return — the kind of character-defining pivot that gives limited series their narrative spine. As the fourth installment of a tight five-issue run, it represents Parrott and artist Eleonora Carlini operating at the height of their collaborative creative vision before the story's conclusion, continuing a book that critics of the contemporary BOOM! Studios imprint noted as one of its more ambitious original bets of the 2024–2025 publishing season.
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Vicarious was announced by BOOM! Studios in July 2024 as part of a 'Road to San Diego Comic-Con' reveal, marking Parrott's debut as a creator-owned comics writer after years of work on licensed franchises. Parrott has described the core concept — what it would feel like to literally see through someone else's eyes and feel what they feel — as an idea he kept returning to before pitching it to BOOM!, where the publisher's editorial guidance helped shape it into a neo-noir psychological thriller dealing with identity and the value of human experience. The creative team brought together Parrott and artist Eleonora Carlini, who had previously collaborated on BOOM!'s Go Go Power Rangers, with colorist Mattia Iacono (with color assistance by Luca Mattioni) and letterer Becca Carey rounding out the production crew — the same team that carried all five issues through to completion.
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- Vicarious #4 (of 5) was published by BOOM! Studios on January 22, 2025, written by Ryan Parrott and illustrated by Eleonora Carlini.
- The issue is the fourth chapter of a planned five-issue limited series, meaning #4 functions as the story's darkest turning point before the finale.
- The official solicit describes protagonist Justin Bright returning home after being hospitalized from a brutal attack, and struggling to separate his duties as a Proxy from his growing personal vendettas — described as drawing him 'down an even darker path, one that he may never be able to return from.'
- The full creative team across the series is: writer Ryan Parrott, artist Eleonora Carlini, colorist Mattia Iacono (with color assistance by Luca Mattioni), and letterer Becca Carey.
- Issue #4 was published with four cover editions: Cover A by Dan Panosian, Cover B by Maria Llovet, Cover C (1:10 incentive) a virgin variant by Dan Panosian, and Cover D (1:15 incentive) a virgin variant by Stefano Simeone.
- Vicarious marks Ryan Parrott's debut as a creator-owned original comics writer; his prior BOOM! Studios work consisted entirely of licensed properties including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
- Eleonora Carlini, born in Rome, debuted in the American market in 2015 and is notably the co-creator of Kid Quick, an early non-binary DC character introduced in Teen Titans for Earth-11 in 2021.
- The complete five-issue run was subsequently collected in a trade paperback edition (ISBN 9798892153850), distributed through Penguin Random House and available digitally via Kindle, iBooks, and Google Play.
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