Frank Forte’s Asylum Press is releasing his new series, Warlash: Dark Noir. The first, 56-page issue ($3.95) has four separate stories, and is previewed at this link with 16 pages from the first issue a video trailer.
Forte describes Warlash as “One part tortured hero, two parts hard core action, with a heaping helping of desperate femme fatales and thugs mixed with the hearbeat of a dirty Pittsburgh is the strong stiff drink we are offering fans. We want to introduce Warlash with these short noir vignettes. It will give the readers a chance to see the character, his environments and the nasty villians he will encounter. Everyone deals with inner demons and some of the baddies he fights are in his own head. There will be a lot of hard-hitting action and carnage, especially to cyborgs and mutants. I foresee a high body count.”
In the first issue, Warlash, an “armored warrior of the apocalyptic future, is back with a vengeance. This issue reintroduces Warlash with four tales of hard boiled crime noir terror. With interior art by Frank Forte, Szymon Kudranski, Steve Mannon and a cover by Bruno Werneck, the tales of mutant cyborgs, satanic rituals and seedy crimelords come to life.”
Asylum Press specializes in high profile projects from some of the industry’s biggest names. Some of their previous titles include Warlash: Zombie Mutant Genesis; horror books Undead Evil and Satan’s 3-Ring Circus of Hell, and the upcoming Asylum of Horrors and Beyond Lovecraft; and dark humor such as Billy Boy: The Sick Little Fat Kid and The Cletus and Floyd Show.