Kelly Sue DeConnick and David López, the team who helped reinvent Captain Marvel, are back to creator-owned comics with a new Dark Horse Comics series, FML.
The eight-issue series, which also features color by Cris Peter and letters by Clayton Cowles, will launch this November and focus on a 16-year-old heavy metal enthusiast named Riley who “draws down his anxiety with a ballpoint pen,” per a press release provided to Comic Book Club. Meanwhile, his mother is “an aging punk cartoonist slam dancing with a true crime obsession.” The book skirts the realm of magical realism, and deals with things like school shooter drills, encroaching wildfires, and more as Riley finds refuge in The Forest Park Witch’s House — a place where stories are told of gods and magic to try to escape the modern day world.
“David and I have been talking about doing something creator-owned together since Captain Marvel, but it took years for the stars and our schedules to properly align,” said DeConnick. “Now that we’re here though, it almost feels planned — like we needed exactly as long as it took us to grow and change, both as artists and as people, so that we could come back together for this big swing.
“FML is a challenging book — stylistically and in tone — and I’m not sure we could have pulled it off five years ago, honestly,” DeConnick said. “But here we are—and I’m so proud of and impressed by the work put in by everyone involved. David is drawing like he’s got something to prove, Cris is pulling disparate styles together seamlessly, tying them together with her palette and Clayton of course, our ace and secret weapon, works his subtle magic on lettering to make sure you hear everything in your head exactly the way it was intended. McCubbin developed this terrific logo that evolves with each issue, and I don’t even know where to start with how supportive and inspiring Daniel Chabon’s editorial team has been. They’ve given us exactly what we needed at every step along the way.”
This marks DeConnick’s return to creator-owned comics after Bitch Planet, and that in itself is an event to celebrate. FML #1 hits stores on November 6, 2024, with a main cover by López, and variants by Alvaro Martinez Bueno, David LaFuente, Nicola Scott, and Pepe Larraz, with one more TBA. Each issue will also feature bonus material, essays, true crime stories, interviews, and more which will only be printed in the single issues.
You can check out a preview of the covers, below.





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