Webcomic ‘Bad Karma’ Gets A Hardback Collection This Fall From Image Comics
by Olly MacNamee
The Panel Syndicate webcomic Bad Karma – billed by Image Comics as “an action/comedy in the grand tradition of Die Hard and Lethal Weapon,” is to be collected as a hardback collection this November. Written by Alex de Campi (Dracula, Motherf**ker!, Parasocial) with art by Ryan Howe (True War Stories; Daisy Blackwood: Pilot for Hire) and Dee Cunniffe (Indigo Children, Star Wars, She-Hulk) this collection will weigh in at 312-page.
“After finding out Aaron Carter, an innocent man, is on Death Row for a mercenary job they did 10 years ago, down-on-their luck army veterans Sully and Ethan go on a Christmas road trip to free him. Turns out nobody’s interested in Aaron’s innocence, but someone is very interested in making sure Sully and Ethan don’t live to see the New Year. They just didn’t figure on one thing: Ethan’s ex-wife Cheryl.”
Talking up Bad Karma, writer De Campi said:
“Bad Karma is my love letter to trashy military action-thrillers and buddy comedies. But instead of the hypercompetent lone wolf hero with the dead family, we’ve got Ethan: divorced, discharged, disabled, and still (with his best friend Sully and his ex-wife Cheryl) absolutely going to kick a dent into the military-industrial complex. Look, you just don’t mess with South Boston.”
Howe added:
“Bad Karma is a treasure trove of storytelling for an artist. You’ve got explosions, car chases, helicopters, gun fights, and knock down brawls, but what’s driving all that (literally at times, ha!) are two very broken friends, taking on a system that already chewed them up and spit them out in their prime, and it’s not going to take it any easier on them now. Action is only as big as the quiet moments are small, and there are times you can hear a pin drop as Ethan and Sully work towards fixing the mistakes of their past.”
Bad Karma hardcover edition will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, November 1st and other book stores and online on Tuesday, November 7th from Image Comics.
