ABLAZE Publishing sent Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles arriving in December 2022.
ABLAZE delivers the launch of FAMILY TIME on December 7th. From the writer/creator of Image Comics Seven Sons, Robert Windom, and his eleven-year-old daughter, Lily, comes this fun, all-ages fantasy adventure. Featuring covers by Jae Lee, as well as Art Direction and cover art by Sanford Greene (Bitter Root), both Eisner-Award winning artists, and anime-inspired interior art by new talent and Greene-protégé, Asiah Fulmore (DC’s Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld).
Next comes the advance solicitation for the January 2023 release of ZEROCALCARE’S TENTACLES AT MY THROAT, the famed Italian creator, Zerocalcare’s second graphic novel, the one that made him stand out as an intelligent, delicate, merciless narrator when it comes to describing his own weaknesses, which could in fact be everyone’s. An honest, touching, intense story with a bit of Stand By Me thrown in for good measure, it’s the book that launched his career. The book has been repeatedly reprinted since its initial release, surpassing sales of 120,000 copies. Zerocalcare’s original animated series “Tear Along the Dotted Line” debuted on Netflix WORLDWIDE November 17, 2021. Season Two is currently in production!
Sexy swordplay and Hyborian unrestrained violence follows with the advance solicitation for the January 2023 release of BELIT & VALERIA: SWORDS VS SORCERY, a new collected edition featuring the hit 5-issue series by Max Bemis and Rodney Buchemi, a complete cover gallery, plus as a bonus, creator Robert E. Howard prose pieces featuring the first appearance of the deadly and sexy adventurers, Bêlit and Valeria, and the origin of the Hyborian Age!
Additional notable ABLAZE releases for December also feature new issues of several continuing series including Eisner winner Mark Russell’s ironic sci-fi adventure, TRAVELING TO MARS (Issue 2), the video game inspired FAR CRY: ESPERANZA’S TEARS (Issue 3), along with LOVECRAFT: UNKNOWN KADATH (Issue 4), an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, and THE BOOGYMAN (Issue 4), writer Mathieu Salvia and artist, Djet’s reinvention of childhood in a tender horror story with an initiatory journey of mourning and the acceptance of fear.
