MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES, the first original graphic novel
from the award-winning and bestselling team Ed Brubaker (writer on HBO’s
Westworld, co-creator of
Too Old to Die Young with
Nicolas Winding Refn for Amazon Studios) and Sean Phillips—the creative
team behind CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE FADE OUT and FATALE—will
hit stores this October.
"Sean and I have been talking about doing our version of a romance comic
for a long time, so naturally it ended up being a crime story, too. But
it's one that allows me to mine some of my own pop culture obsessions
and delve back into my teen years and the kind of trouble you can only
get into when you're young," said Brubaker. "And coming off a long
project like
Kill Or Be Killed, it just felt like this was the
perfect time for us to experiment with format and finally do an original
graphic novel. We're both very excited to be creating something that's
designed to be seen first in hardback. That's a new one for us, in
nearly 20 years of working together."
Ever since the death of her junkie mother, Ellie has been obsessed with
famous drug addicts. Those tragic artistic souls drawn to needles and
pills have been her angels and idols. But when Ellie lands in an upscale
rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be... she'll find
another more dangerous romance, and find out how easily drugs and murder
go hand in hand.
MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES will be presented in a gorgeous
hardcover format and is sure to be a seductive coming-of-age story, a
pop and drug culture-fueled tale of a young girl seeking darkness... and
what she finds there.
MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES (Diamond Code FEB188004, ISBN:
978-1-5343-0846-6) will be available in comic book stores on Wednesday,
October 10th and bookstores on Tuesday, October 16th.
