Glamour. Glitz. Assassins!
Our next guests have brought all that and more to the comics scene with their new series from Scout Comics, "Death Drop: Drag Assassin"!
Squares Ben and Shane talk to comic book artist Alex Moore and comic book writer David Hazan about "Death Drop" as well as mixing crime noir with drag aesthetics, whether or not publishers are moving away from continuing series in favor of trade paperbacks/graphic novels, and Alex accidentally happening upon an "Eyes Wide Shut" style party!
Here's the official description for "Death Drop: Drag Assassin":
"Death Drop uses her skills to pick up the scent of the missing Lunaira Sun, at the insistence of their drag mother, Mother Henny. What she finds is a trail of corpses robbed of their faces, a leather-clad killer hell-bent on revenge, and an enigmatic and terrifying queen from Mother Henny’s past. To make matters worse, Death Drop can’t shake the feeling that the specter of the assassin mentor she exposed and left for dead years ago is now haunting her every step.
"The search for a connection between these events will take Death Drop from Mother Henny’s Club, Posterior Delusions, through the streets and back-alleys of the gayborhood, to the world beyond. As her past and present collide in a deadly confrontation, Death Drop will be forced to grapple with the idea that escaping from your past and overcoming it are two very different things …"
You can learn more about this miniseries at https://www.scoutcomics.com/collections/death-drop-drag-assassin. You also can keep up with Alex at https://alexmooreillustration.substack.com/. And you can see more David's work at https://davidhazan.com/.
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