Former Marvel vice president Bill Jemas and former Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso have teamed up to start a new comics publishing company called AWA Comics, and we have gotten EXCLUSIVE word that AWA Comics will be launching a line of horror comics in 2020.
AWA's first horror comic will be HOTELL, which is coming to us from the creative team of writer John Lees and artist Dalibor Talajic.
HOTELL has the following synopsis:
You won’t find it on any map, but if you happen to be driving down Route 66 late at night and you’re truly desperate for shelter, sanctuary or secrecy, you might see a battered sign on the side of the road: The Pierrot Courts Hotel – where many check in but few check out: the woman whose unborn child urges her to do terrible, terrible things… the man who can’t get rid of his wife no matter how many times he chops her body into pieces… the failed priest performing a desperate exorcism on a kidnapped boy… the investigative journalist on the trail of a serial killer, who discovers a terrible secret in the crawlspace between the hotel walls. These are but a few of the Pierrot Courts Hotel’s guests, and all of them will wish they had just kept driving.
That all sounds very interesting to me. I look forward to seeing how it will turn out.
A cover and a page of artwork from HOTELL can be seen below, along with some information on Lees and Talajic. If you'd like to see bigger versions of the HOTELL art, just click on the images:
