Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

Product Description Tor.com's Best Comics of 2018 THE WICKED + THE DIVINE writer KIERON GILLEN teams up with artist supernova STEPHANIE HANS (WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery) for her first ongoing comic. DIE is a pitch-black fantasy where a group of forty-something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role-players. If Kieron's in a rush, he describes it as ""Goth Jumanji"", but that's only the tip of this obsidian iceberg. Collects issues #1-5 of DIE Review "A wonderful, beautiful, heart-wrenching comic." --Jamie McKelvie, Young Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine "Do you wish that IT had fewer clowns luring in sewers with balloons and more RPG sessions that cause kids to disappear for several years? Then Die by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans is the comic for you! Also, I got to test-play the RPG the book is built around and it's SO FUN." -Jody Houser, Stranger Things, Faith, Doctor Who "Utterly beautiful." -The Hollywood Reporter "Emotional evisceration awaits. I cannot recommend this highly enough" -Marguerite Bennett, Animosity, Bombshells "I've had the pleasure of reading Die from Gillen, Hans & Cowles and it's everything I love about comics. It's such a great concept for a series." -Gerry Duggan, Deadpool, Analog "Seriously, pre-order your copy; it's so good!" -Women Write About Comics Review LIBRARY JOURNAL -- In 1991, six teenagers vanish while playing a tabletop role-playing game. Two years later, five of them reappear. They refuse to say where they've been or what happened to their absent member or talk about their experience at all until nearly three decades later when they are unexpectedly whisked back to the fantasy world where they spent their missing years. They'll have to work together to overcome a variety of challenges if they want to get home again, which doesn't seem all that difficult given that they've done it before...until they discover that dragons are easier to face down than the horrific consequences of the actions they took to escape earlier. Gillen (The Wicked and Divine: Deluxe Edition; Year Three) subverts high fantasy adventure tropes with an infusion of creepy horror, resulting in an exploration of arrested adolescence and the effects of childhood trauma made truly haunting by realistic illustrations and a gloomy color palette from Hans (Asgardians of the Galaxy. Vol. 1: The Infinity Armada), assisted by letterer Cowles (Young Avengers) . VERDICT Fans of any of the genres represented in this volume, which collects Issues 1-5 of the continuing series, will find much to enjoy Review "A wonderful, beautiful, heart-wrenching comic." -Jamie McKelvie, Young Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine