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AHOY Comics paired Jesus with a superman forSecond Coming , and now it ’s sending the most unlikely pair of meter traveller back to the ' 70s withG.I.L.T. , a brand newfangled romanticistic dramedy .
The new serial publication comes from Eisner - make comics author and novelist Alisa Kwitney ( Rogue : uninfluenced ) and artist Mauricet ( Star Wars Adventures ) and variant covering by Jill Thompson . The fib get in in comic store in April , with Hildy Winters , a off-color , outspoken former encompassing with a ring - a daytime habit and a very desirable apartment on New York City ’s Upper West Side that has its very own time - locomotion portal . Hildy belong to to G.I.L.T. , the Guild of Independent Lady Temporalists . Their prime directive : Do not alter the past without Centennial State - op plank approval .
G.I.L.T. follows two very dissimilar women whose life become embroiled when they both slip one’s mind through a portal in time to the solar day they first met in 1973 . Trista is the Bill Murray of home health fear Hades , a cynical screw - up who does n’t worry for anything but her Fleuvog place and her paycheck . She meets her match in Hildy , a sarcastic 2d - wave feminist living on a steady dieting of coffin nail and regret . When Hildy usurp her last chance to reelect to a fateful day in 1973 , she accidentally takes Trista along for the ride . But as the old expression buy the farm , there are no accident in sentence locomotion . And Hildy and Trista do n’t retrieve each other , but they met each other forty days earlier — on Hildy ’s wedding Clarence Day . Now they ’ve get to come to terms with the past before they accidentally dismantle the time to come .
Check out the prescribed cover art by Mauricet and Thompson ’s variant forG.I.L.T. # 1below :
“ Although there are no saintly saviors , no huffy felines , and no weird recipes , G.I.L.T. is instantly recognizable as one of our own . It ’s witty , surprising , and features some of the best art of Mauricet ’s career . And like all of the best AHOY series , G.I.L.T. is very , very shady in a way that refuses to cheer up you up at all . ”
As Kwitney key the series,“G.I.L.T. provides an escape from our present day anxiety … the perfect comedian for everyone who ’s ever been make by a ego - avail guru with a really sybaritic mustache . ”As Mauricet adds : “ A dramedy about people with feelings ? No spandex superdudes beating the sh!t out of each other ? The 1930s , 1970s and 2010s colliding with a spot of unhinged magazine sendup ? All of this written by my favorite author and publish by AHOY ? Where do I sign ? ” No doubt there will be many comic book devotee ( especially live readers of AHOY ’s offerings ) who are just as eager to get this adventure started .
G.I.L.T. # 1will debut on April 6 , 2022 .
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