Oni Press released an early look at Night People #1, a neo-noir tale by Chris Candon and Brian Level.
Based on the follow-up to Gifford’s breakthrough novel Wild at Heart (adapted into the Palme d’Or-winning feature film directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe), NIGHT PEOPLE follows a fascinating and fully realized cast of outsiders, loners, and lost souls through four interlocking narratives as they travel a path of intoxication, lust, and spontaneous violence from New Orleans to Egypt City, Florida, and back again.
In our first tale of desperation, fanaticism, and murder, as told by Gifford, Condon, and Level, two ex-convicts—the inseparable lovers Big Betty Stalcup and Miss Cutie Early—are out on parole using their newfound freedom to purify the world of men’s evil influence . . . leaving a trail of mutilated bodies in their wake. As the psychotic dimensions of their star-crossed romance—and the twisting paths that led them to their fateful meeting at the Fort Sumatra Detention Center for Wayward Women—come into full view, their experiment in righteousness culminates in the kidnapping of Rollo Lamar, a kindly attorney whom Betty and Cutie abduct just to see if they can reeducate at least one man on the planet before the demise of civilization.
According to Oni Press, a different artist will join Candon on each issue of the series.
Night People #1 arrives on March 6, 2024.
