In November, Dark Horse Comics is releasing a special one-shot comic tie-in to Christopher Krovatin‘s Venomous, which Simon & Schuster is publishing. The young adult novel is also currently in pre-production as a feature film produced by the Los Angeles-based company 72 Productions. The comic is written by Arvid Nelson (Rex Mundi, Kull) and illustrated by Nick Stakal (Criminal Macabre).
In Venomous, “Locke Vinetti is a high school junior, disenchanted and more than a little hostile. In fact, for years he’s had a lousy social life because of a problem he has with his anger—a force he calls ‘the venom’. Ever since he was eight years old and bit off a piece of a classmate’s nose, he’s been something of a loner. But all that is about to change when he goes out with his one friend, Randall, to meet some of Randall’s crew hanging out at Riverside Park. Because in addition to meeting his kindred spirit, Casey—who has his own problems with his own kind of venom—Locke meets the spikey blue fairy-haircut Goth girl of his dreams. And if their relationship is going to work, he knows he has to rid himself of the venom once and for all. Interspersed with comic book adventures of the fantasy anti-hero alter-ego Locke has invented for himself, Venomous is a fast-paced, funny, and ferocious read about one teenage boy’s struggle with his inner demons.”
Deadlocke, the comic, “mixes real life and young adult themes with escapist comic book fantasy to tell the story” of what happens when Locke’s “dark alter ego who exists in his drawings threatens to take over his life. Locke must learn to control his newfound strength at the risk of losing Renee, the darkly beautiful girl of his dreams. This internal struggle eventually culminates in a brutal rooftop battle where the characters’ lives, and souls, hang in the balance.”
Krovatin is also the author of 2005’s Heavy Metal and You.
For more information, or to pre-order the comic, see this page.