Falling in Love on the Path to Hell Volume 1
A New Romantasy Series
Image Comics · Print & ebook · January 21, 2025
"This gritty-but-heartfelt genre mash-up embraces the medium’s freedoms and possibilities without pretension.
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- Who it’s for
- A grim, flirtatious mix that leans into romance, horror, and fantasy without blinking.
- Genres
- Romance Comics, Action & Adventure Comics, Occult & Supernatural Comics
- Published
- Image Comics, January 21, 2025
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"This gritty-but-heartfelt genre mash-up embraces the medium’s freedoms and possibilities without pretension. It’s perfect for readers who favor red meat and formal rigor." —Publishers Weekly Falling in Love on the Path to Hell has it all—otherworldly intrigue, gunslingers and samurai, the dead, the dying, the undead, and of course…romance. The sun set on samurai and gunslingers at roughly the same time, but our two leads didn’t die off quietly.
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In the East, a samurai would rather die with her weapons than surrender them to a sword hunt. In the West, the gunslinger follows his revenge to the bitter end. The future lovers are mortally wounded a world apart and awake together in a purgatory ruled by a ruthless society of damned warriors. Asami and MacRaith will need to overcome the dead, the dying, and the undead. Can love redeem them? This first volume is violent, mysterious, thrilling and sexy. From GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men, Deadpool) and GARRY BROWN (Babyteeth). Collects the oversized first issues of FALLING IN LOVE ON THE PATH TO HELL # 1-4.
Dark Romantasy
A grim, flirtatious mix that leans into romance, horror, and fantasy without blinking.
Come here for
- dark-romantic genre blend
- collector-friendly volume one
Expect
- edgy pulp energy
- romantasy with comic-book bite
Where it sits
| Romance Comics | 48% |
|---|---|
| Occult & Supernatural Comics | 42% |
| Action & Adventure Comics | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Romance Comics
- Dark Fantasy Comics
- Fantasy Romance
- Authors
- Gerry Duggan, Garry Brown, Chris O'Halloran
- Publisher
- Image Comics
- Published
- January 21, 2025
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Romance Comics