{"id":17428,"date":"2019-06-25T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=17428"},"modified":"2019-06-25T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:55:07","slug":"pretty-deadly-returns-with-new-story-arc-the-rat-this-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/popculturenetwork.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/25\/pretty-deadly-returns-with-new-story-arc-the-rat-this-september\/","title":{"rendered":"PRETTY DEADLY returns with new story arc THE RAT this September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\u201cPushes the boundaries of comics storytelling in the most wicked ways. I love it.\u201d \u2014Ed Brubaker,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The Fade Out, Criminal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Image Comics is pleased to announce the return of the critically-acclaimed\u00a0Pretty Deadly\u00a0<\/em>series by Kelly Sue DeConnick (Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet<\/em>) and Emma R\u00edos (I.D., Mirror<\/em>) this September. This new installment in the popular, mythic fantasy series is titled\u00a0The Rat<\/em>\u00a0and will be set during the classic Hollywood golden era.<\/p>\n

This new story arc will be the midway point in the\u00a0Pretty Deadly<\/em>\u00a0series, with the following volumes four and five\u2019s themes already planned out. \u201cThe Rat<\/em>\u00a0tells a story of art, addiction, and loss, against a backdrop of an emerging Hollywood,\u201d said DeConnick. \u201cArc 4,\u00a0The Butterfly<\/em>, will look backward to reveal Alice\u2019s origins, and Arc 5 will push the series to its conclusion in the Great Depression. I am so grateful to have this book, and Emma\u2019s partnership, back at the forefront of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

R\u00edos added: \u201cI’d never do it justice, but\u00a0The Rat<\/em>\u00a0is a love letter dedicated to the fascinating work done by Lotte Reiniger, Svankmajer and the Brothers Quay. The book is steering me from raw violence to subtle horror, and I\u2019m feeling it.<\/p>\n

Pretty Deadly: The Rat #1<\/em>\u00a0(Diamond Code JUL190083) will be available on Wednesday, September 4. The final order cutoff for retailers is Monday, August 12.<\/p>\n

Pretty Deadly, Vol. 1: The Shrike\u00a0<\/em>(ISBN: 978-1607069621) and\u00a0Pretty Deadly, Vol. 2: The Bear<\/em>\u00a0(ISBN: 978-1632156945) are available now at local comic shops, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indiebound, and Indigo.<\/p>\n

\nSelect praise for\u00a0Pretty Deadly<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWith its poetry and violence, there’s nothing like this. Cherish it.” \u2014Kieron Gillen<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This weird western saga gleefully, dreamily fuses a Greek chorus, spaghetti westerns, American trickster tales and creepy Japanese shoujo (girls\u2019) manga. At the core of it, however, is a masterpiece of mythopoeism that many literary fantasists struggle to emulate.” \u2014N.K. Jemisin<\/strong>,\u00a0New York Times Book Review<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPretty Deadly<\/em>\u00a0goes old Hollywood, and pushes the boundaries of comics storytelling in the most wicked ways. I love it.\u201d \u2014Ed Brubaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA ferocious series of powerful characters born of gorgeous art. It is Sergio Leone crossed with Neil Gaiman\u2019s\u00a0American Gods<\/em>, a hellish yet alluring mix of epic mythology from the ancient poets, the relentlessly unforgiving fairy tales of the Old World, and the blood-soaked folklore of the Old West.\u201d \u2014Tor.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the moment you crack open its pages, you’re transported into a world as fantastical as any fairy tale and as haunting as any ghost story.\u00a0Pretty Deadly<\/em>represents genre-bending to the point of breakage in the best possible way.\u201d \u2014IGN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s ambitious and challenging…under a facade of violence and sacrifice. R\u00edos\u2019 art is lush and detailed, and is more than capable of keeping up with the far-reaching story.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cPretty Deadly, one of the most fascinating comics published today, is a magical realist genre-bender that began as a Sergio Leone-style Western, but has transformed into a grisly World War I story with its second arc.\u201d \u2014The Onion\u2019s AV Club<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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