From the floor of C2E2, Dark Horse announces a book that was almost
too much for the editorial team! Eisner
nominee Alex de Campi (Smoke, Ashes) headlines a B-movie comic masterpiece
in Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight!
With covers by superstar artists Francesco
Francavilla, Dan Panosian, and Coop, this series is excessive, gratuitous and
tasteless—just like you love it.
Literature: overrated.
Morality: expendable. Tonight is right for some over-the-top sex and violence!
Bringing the flavor of midnight exploitation flicks to comics, Grindhouse delivers four two-issue gore
operas, starting with the Chris Peterson-drawn “Bee Vixens from Mars,” pitting
a one-eyed southern Latina deputy against lusty alien chicks bent on laying
eggs in the entire male population!
Future arcs include “Prison
Ship Anteres,” featuring art from Simon Fraser (2000 AD); “Bride of Blood,” with art by Federica Manfredi (True Blood, Hack/Slash); and “Flesh Feast of the Devil Doll,” with art by Gary
Erskine (The Mask)!
“Grindhouse is the comic
your mother warned you about. Seriously. You know when grownups told you comics
were filthy, immoral trash? They were talking about this comic specifically,” states
Alex de Campi. “Books like Grindhouse
were the reason the Comics Code was invented. And if you’re in a very
conservative or evangelical part of the US, you should be careful where you
read it. Each story is two issues of solid gore, gratuitous nudity, and over-the-top
badassery. It’s filthy. It’s violent. It’s really, really fun.”
“Bee Vixens” colorist
Nolan Woodard added, “You do know I colored 28 Days Later, and this is still way more blood, right?”
Grindhouse: Doors Open at Midnight #1 is on sale October 2 in comic shops
everywhere (where it’s not outlawed)!
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