On March 11th, Action Lab: Danger Zone brings you the ComixCentral’s 2018 People’s Choice award-winning Sweet Heart, a new horror comic series by up-and-coming writer, Dillon Gilbertson, with art by Ghastly Award-winner, Francesco Iaquinta (Croak), and colors by Marco Pagnotta (Phantom Squad, Captain Canuck). Variant cover by Christian DiBari. Follow the tale of Sweet Heart and you may learn that things are not so sweet after all...
Being hunted is an everyday risk in Ellicott City and the town itself is designed to make life comfortable for its citizens while being actively stalked by the eerie, insatiable creatures that live among them. But when Ben is chosen by one of the creatures near his home, his mother struggles to cope with the certainty of her son's death.
"Good horror grabs your mind. Better horror grabs you by your gut. And the best horror grabs both. That's what Sweet Heart does."
- Paul Tobin (Made Men, Colder)
"This is a genuinely creepy comic. The writing is clever. It’s genuinely surprising and each of the twists and turns took me by surprise."
- Nick Devonald, Comics: The Gathering
“...fresh and terrifying in how real and natural it feels.”
- Matt Ligeti, ComicBookYeti.com
"Imagine Stephen King’s “IT” but there’s more than one Pennywise and the entire town knows about them."
-Al Mega, Comic Crusaders
“This story serves as both a vessel for my own worst fears about these ‘monsters’ as well as my optimistic views of what we can do about them,” said writer, Dillon Gilbertson. “Like bogeymen that could follow them their entire lives, Sweet Heart began as a thinly veiled analogy for my life with diabetes that grew to represent a number of chronic health, psychological, and personal issues many people deal with everyday."
“Sweet Heart isn't the usual horror story,” said Francesco Iaquinta. “The evolution of each character, and how they seem to change in such unpredictable ways, is what makes this comic so unique. These are demons that Dillon needed to exorcise, so I’m grateful for the opportunity to be part of it.”
Sweet Heart finds the monster in all of us, and maybe—just maybe—you’ll get the courage to face yours.
Dillon will be signing at The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, CA on March 11th, from 5-8pm, and will also be attending Emerald City Comic Con (ECCC) in Seattle, WA, March 12-15th.
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