‘Black Heart Billy’ to Get Special Deluxe Hardcover for 25th Anniversary
Image Comics will be releasing a 25th-anniversary edition of the cult classic Black Heart Billy on December 17th, collecting the entire original run in a deluxe black and white hardcover. Created by Rick Remender and Kieron Dwyer, this limited edition print run will feature bonus content, including a new afterword by Remender.
The story follows Billy Black, a skate-punk, robotic-head misfit with a penchant for disregarding authority. When a crazed Nazi scientist resurrectes Adolf Hitler via Jerry Garcia’s corpse, Billy must navigate a surreal landscape of fascist hippie nightmares to save San Francisco.
"Rick was an integral part of my raunchy adult humor comic LCD: Lowest Comic Denominator, so when he showed me his drawing of Black Heart Billy and asked me to work with him on developing the character into a full blown comic series, it seemed like the natural (d)evolution of my comics career, and a perfect vehicle for our mutual love of absurd, balls-to-the-wall, black humor," said Dwyer.
Remender added, "No character holds as much personal weight for me as Black Heart Billy. In 1999, I was a broke kid who’d just moved to San Francisco chasing a stupid dream to make independent comics. Skateboarding and punk rock had shaped my life and I wanted to create a book that lived in that world. Something absurd and unhinged and true to the scene that gave me a home.”
