Back in 2001, when Gail Simone was just getting her comics career rolling, she teamed up with veteran artist Lea Hernandez to bring out a new, darkly funny creator-owned series. Killer Princesses tells the tale of three members of a sorority of trained assassins, each bold, beautiful, bawdy, and bdangerous. There’s the fair and kindly Charity, the vicious and foul-mouthed Faith, and the glamorous Hope. Together, under the tutelage of the woman known simply as “Mother”, they are ready to take on the folks who cause the real problems in the world: the powerful, the technocrats… the smart people. And if you want to beat smart people, you need something different from them. Faith, Hope, and Charity are just the ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray folks to get the job done.
The three issue series ran, was collected into a trade paperback in 2004, and then was largely set aside. Decades later, however, the smart technocrats are disrupting more than ever before, and it’s clearly time that the book was available again. So About Comics just dropped the new edition, for sale at online bookstores around the globe.
This is not the first time that About Comics has dipped into the Killer Princesses well.The book Panel Two: More Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers contains Simone’s script for the first issue of the series with some commentary on that script from Hernandez. Peanel Two, which was originally published in 2003, remains available, so now people who have that book will be able to compare what Simone wrote to what Hernandez drew.
There are currently no plans to offer this book through a direct market distributor. It is available through such sites as Amazon and bn.com, as well as About Comics’s own ordering site for this boo. Retailers interested in carrying this title should contact questions@aboutcomics.com
Killer Princesses (ISBN 978-1-949996-76-0) is a 96 page black-and-white 7″x10″ trade paperback cover priced at a mere $12. The cover art is derived from a version colored by the mighty Laura Martin.
