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Dexter-Style Action Collides With A Preacher-esque Sensibility In Saints From Image Comics

Image Comics is bringing award-winning playwright and This American Life personality Sean Lewis to the comic book world. Lewis will be teaming up with red-hot artist Benjamin Mackey for an all-new ongoing series entitled Saints. The story focuses on Blaise, Lucy, and Sebastian who discover a Holy War is erupting and they, unwittingly, are the next generation of Saints poised to fight for a heaven that God has abandoned.

Lewis talked about Saints by saying:

"I was drawn in the moment Ben pitched the idea to me: 'What if the Patron Saints returned to earth and their martyrdom became their superpower. I had gone to Catholic school, I'm first generation Irish-American, really deep in religious guilt—I thought it was brilliant. It's been the most fun I've had writing something because it deals with things I'm really interested in. Deep things like what people believe in and why, but also funny and frivolous things like heavy metal. The book is thoughtful, for sure, but also insanely funny. Kind of like a Dogma on steroids. That's what makes it a joy."

Mackey added:

"In Saints, you have these characters, housing the souls of revered religious martyrs, that still need to eat, sleep, drink, and figure out what the hell is going on in their lives. I want to capture this balance of the contemporary mundanity with a classical sense of the monumental. Drawing on inspiration from John Singer Sargent, Giambattista Tiepolo, David Lynch, 19 Kids and Counting, Eastern Orthodox Icons, and Slipknot… I hope to create a visual milieu that although clean and simple on surface, houses a much more tumultuous interior life."

The occult rises in this spectacular, action-packed new series that promises heavy metal, sex, and deadly one-liners at every turn. Dexter-style action collides with a Preacher-esque sensibility in Saints #1, October 7th.

Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, September 14th.

Christine Marie is a Staff Writer at Bleeding Cool, and bibliomaniac with a love for all things creative. She hopes to one day be a Superhero/Disney Princess/Novelist. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @AWritersWay or on her blog writerchristinemarie.wordpress.com.

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