Brian Azzarello & Maria Llovet Get Provocative in This Exclusive Faithless Preview

Brian Azzarello is one of comics’ premiere provocateurs—just ask Batman’s bat-pole. His long-running work alongside Eduardo Risso on Vertigo’s 100 Bullets established Azzarello as a foundational voice in modern crime comics, and subsequent series like the New 52-era Wonder Woman and the Image Comics werewolf hit Moonshine prove that his range doesn’t begin and end with gritty noir. Barcelona-based artist Maria Llovet is a much newer name to American readers, although her bold, often explicit work on books like There’s Nothing There and Loud has made a fast impression on Western audiences. Beginning next month, Azzarello and Llovet will team up for one of publisher BOOM! Studios’ riskiest, most incendiary titles to date: Faithless.

“Brian and Maria have created a compelling look at a young woman at the center of self-discovery and all the missteps that can come with that…like pursuing the occult,” BOOM! Studios Executive Editro Sierra Hahn said in a statement. “Faithless is beautiful, fun, sexy and wonderfully unexpected.”

Featuring main covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Paul Pope, Faithless marks Azzarello’s debut work for BOOM! Studios, and one of the publisher’s first sexually explicit series. Mingling self-discovery, sex, love and occultism, Faithless follows Faith, a bored young woman who dabbles in black magic—and catches the attention of some very dangerous infernal forces. Paste readers can check out an exclusive extended preview of the five-issue mini-series, but be warned: unlike prior peeks at Faithless, Llovet’s pages below are uncensored. We’ve also got the debut of Lee Bermejo’s variant cover for the first issue. Faithless #1 hits comic stores and digital retailers April 10th, 2019.