A brand-new creator-owned series from the team that brought you Captain Marvel!
Dark Horse Comics is excited to present FML, a surreal coming-of-age single-issue series from writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Bitch Planet, Pretty Deadly, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons, Captain Marvel) and illustrator David López (Captain Marvel, Black Hand and the Iron Head). Colorist Cris Peter (Bitch Planet, Critical Role: Tales of Exandria, Ghostbusters: Back in Town) and letterer Clayton Cowles (Helen of Wyndhorn, Bitch Planet, Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons) round out the creative team for the eight-issue series.
Riley is a 16-year-old heavy metal kid who draws down his anxiety with a ballpoint pen. His mother is an aging punk cartoonist slam dancing with a true crime obsession. Bound by threads of magical realism, they navigate the absurdities and horrors of our modern lives.
Issue one introduces Riley’s daily life: terrorism diaries, school shooter drills, and social pressures under the constant shadow of encroaching wildfires that rain ash like a morbid snow. His refuge? The Forest Park Witch’s House, where tales of chaos magic and trickster gods promise some semblance of sense in a senseless world.
Echoing the comedy of “Bottoms,” the nostalgic pull of “Stranger Things,” and the coming-of-age journey in “Stand By Me,” DeConnick’s first return to creator-owned comics since Bitch Planet is an apocalyptic odyssey that speaks to the resilience of the misfit and the power of art.