Yesterday, we announced a special comic miniseries currently in development for release in 2023 (our 30th Anniversary year); in fact, it’s SWC’s first licensed-comics project: the sci-fi miniseries Lester del Rey’s Time Ring, by the team of writer Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) and artist Eliseu “Zeu” Gouveia.
Well, today we have another exciting announcement: a comic project sure to appeal to fans of horror comics and good girl/bad girl art, starring SWC’s First Lady of Horror!
Planned as a Kickstarter campaign, Lorelei: Sweet Soul Music is an all-new, 48-page, full-color special in which our resident succubus, Lorelei, and her girlfriend (and third-generation monster hunter), Felicia Agincourt, attend a nostalgia concert starring a famous 1960s folk group and run into another succubus—only this one is from another planet and the distant future!
It’s written by Steven A. Roman (that’s me!) and illustrated and colored by Zeu; our previous collaborations include the SWC graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City, the SWC comic books The Saga of Pandora Zwieback #0 and The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1, and Piko Interactive/Virtual Comics’ The Legend of Calamity Jane: The Devil Herself.
The special also boasts three covers to choose from: the main cover by Zeu, and two variants—one by legendary Warren Publishing painter Bob Larkin (Vampirella, The Rook, Creepy, Eerie, Famous Monsters of Filmland), the other by fan favorite bad-girl artist supreme Louis Small Jr. (Vampirella, Vampirella Strikes, Vampirella/Lady Death). And keep an eye out for cameos by a few indie-comic heroes—and a very special guest appearance by a star from the days of Warren Publishing!
Lorelei Munro, for those of you unfamiliar with the character, is a succubus who was originally a human woman named Laurel Ashley O’Hara—until supernatural forces transformed her into an irresistible sexual demon. Now she uses her powers for good, draining the lives of evildoers while still coming to terms with this unusual life she never asked for. She got her start as the star of SWC’s first comic book series, back in the 1990s, and in the years since has reappeared in various projects, including the graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City and the horror anthology comic Lorelei Presents: House Macabre.
Lorelei: Sweet Soul Music is also a sequel of sorts to a digital comic we’ll be releasing at the same time:
Lorelei Presents: Vampires of the Void will be a free, digital-only reprint of the Golden Age comic story that inspired the Lori special. In the 38th century, Earth is attacked by a race of interstellar warriors who live off the life force of human souls—basically, they’re succubi and incubi…in spaaace! And the only Earthman with any hope of stopping them is Captain Dave Kenton of the Star Patrol!
Originally published in Avon Periodicals’ Strange Worlds #4 in 1951, “Vampires of the Void” is the work of three legendary comics creators: writer Gardner Fox (Justice League of America, Green Lantern), penciler Wallace “Wally” Wood (Daredevil, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents), and inker Joe Orlando (Superman, Tales From the Crypt).
Stay tuned for further information. And stop by here at the SWC blog tomorrow for another thrilling Lorelei announcement!
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