LOVE IS PAIN . . . AND WE MEAN IT LITERALLY THIS TIME!
Did your heart ever break so hard that it felt like Cupid himself had plunged his sharp little arrow into your ribcage, only to leave a sucking chest wound for all the world to see? No?! Well, are you free on the second Wednesday in February?!
In the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics, here's one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents our next 56-page, coffin-shaped bouquet of brutality in TORTURED HEARTS #1-a giant-sized special full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire (Redlands), Tini Howard (Excalibur) & Blake Howard (Vampire: The Masquerade), Ann Nocenti (Daredevil), and Amy Roy (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss), alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol (Hulk: Maestro), Fabiana Mascolo (Cyberpunk 2077), Dan McDaid (EC's Outlaw Showdown) and Arjuna Susini (Lamentation)!
Plus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by the legendary William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!
Hey, loverboy, we've all had "the blues" . . . Pick up TORTURED HEARTS #1 to shake them off before they turn black and start to smell bad!
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Amy Roy was born and raised in Philadelphia. She made her directorial debut at age ten, helming the neighborhood's annual Christmas pageant. There were mandatory rehearsals, a script revision to the main character's birth and hot chocolate to keep the talent happy. Too scared to try and become a real artist, Amy graduated from Penn State and become a copywriter, working in the ad industry for over ten years. After years of unhappiness, Amy made the leap and went back to film school in Vancouver, starting her life all over again. She moved to L.A. a year later, and has been working in the industry ever since, as an assistant to various writers and directors. Today, she works for the Donners' Company, and considers it a great honor to work with Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner. Recently, she wrote four issues of the Smooth Criminals comic book series for Boom! Entertainment. She wrote and produced the short, Rent Control, which was screened at over a dozen film festivals, including the DC Independent, winning the audience award at three. She produced the short Of Darkness, accepted to over 100 horror festivals. The Lonely Store marks her (official) directorial debut.
Sebastián Cabrol is a comic artist and illustrator. He has worked with BOOM! Studios (The Seasons Have Teeth) Dark Horse (Hungry Ghosts), Marvel (Maestro, Falcon, The Avengers) and Valiant (The Darques, Shadowman, XO-Manowar) and as a cover artist and interior illustrator for several publishers. He is also a frequent artist of Magic: The Gathering cards.
Fabiana Mascolo is a freelance comic book artist based in Rome. Upon graduating top of her class in 2015, she started working in the comics industry both as a penciler and colorist. Over the years, she has worked for companies such as BOOM! Studios, Feltrinelli, and Edizioni BD. In 2019 she started her collaboration with Scout Comics for the miniseries Yasmeen, written by Saif A. Ahmed.
Dan McDaid is a comics writer and artist based in Scotland. He started out writing and drawing adventures for the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who Magazine, and he has since gone on to well-received runs on properties as diverse as Big Trouble in Little China, Judge Dredd, and Firefly. Following acclaimed work on TKO's pulp blockbuster The Fearsome Dr. Fang, McDaid drew the swashbuckling horror Sea Dogs for Joe Hill's Hill House imprint and DC Comics. His most recent project is the self-penned title, sci-fi mystery DEGA published by Oni Press.