The Small Press Highlight is formally kicking off summer season with an thrilling collaboration between Yungblud (aka Dominic Harrison) and Z2 Comics. Yungblud Presents Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Membership 3: The Funeral is the third graphic novel team-up between the multi-instrumentalist rockstar and the writer. The comedian additionally coincides with the discharge of his single of the identical title.
The graphic novel is a followup to The Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Membership and Bizarre Occasions on the Quarry Financial institution College. On this newest installment, readers will discover “the musician’s ballistic tales of super-powered outcasts rebelling towards sinister boarding faculties and past.” Co-written by Ryan O’Sullivan (RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and The Pit of Snakes), inside artwork is by Annapaola Martello (Kiss/Vampirella) and Vasilis Lolos (RZA Presents: Bobby Digital and The Pit of Snakes). Covers are from Martello and Butch Mapa (Chuck D Presents Apocalypse 91). This ebook serves as a cross-media expertise alongside Yungblud’s single, “The Funeral,” launched in March.
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“This new chapter builds off the gleefully irreverent, bitingly profane adventures of Yungblud and his super-powered coterie—the titular Ritalin Membership—of Concord, Scout, Zombie Joshua, Em, and Encore. After breaking free from the repressive constraints of Blackheart’s Excessive College and navigating the horrors of Quarry Financial institution College, Yungblud will face his biggest foe: mortality.
Two years after saving the world from the Mangaverse, Yungblud died. Nobody is aware of how, solely that it was sufficient to trigger The Ritalin Membership to disband and cease speaking to one another. However as their previous foe, The Spreading Darkness, has returned, extra highly effective than ever, it falls to Zombie Joshua to get the band again collectively. Each member. Dwelling or useless.”
“These highly effective graphic novels function a mirror to my very own journey as an artist by means of a medium I completely adore” Yungblud explains. “The earlier volumes chronicled my battles with authority, identification, and self-expression. The Funeral, like its musical counterpart, grapples with the thought of self-acceptance, belonging, and discovering peace with your personal insecurities.”
“Yungblud continues to be one of the crucial singular, confrontational voices within the popular culture panorama,” Z2 Comics Writer Joshua Frankel continues. “As quickly as we launched Twisted Tales, I knew that his story couldn’t be contained in a single quantity. It is a superb center finger of style fiction. We’ll proceed to publish them so long as there’s a narrative to inform.”
Yungblud Presents Twisted Tales of the Ritalin Membership 3: The Funeral will likely be obtainable in each softcover and deluxe clamshell codecs, together with a hand-signed version of the ebook, 4 prints, and a CD. Preorder your copy right here.