Love is eternal… and so is heartbreak
Multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Tom King (The Vision, Mister Miracle, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and critically acclaimed artist Elsa Charretier (November, The Unstoppable Wasp, Harley Quinn, Infinite Loop) deliver a haunting, genre-defying tale in the graphic novel series Love Everlasting. The third volume paperback in the series will collect Love Everlasting issues #11-15 and drop readers into a plot-twist tryst this month from Image Comics.
Joan Petersen is a woman caught in a surreal loop of doomed romance. One moment she’s the starry-eyed secretary in a 1950s office affair; the next, she’s tangled in a dust-choked Western love triangle, or swept into the arms of a soldier during wartime. From high school hallways to bloodstained battlefields, each of Joan’s lives brings readers a new setting, a new lover—and the same inevitable, gut-wrenching end.
But Joan is starting to remember. And she’s starting to resist.
As her impossible journey unfolds and a mysterious cowboy enters the picture, Love Everlasting transforms into a gripping meditation on free will, fate, and the cultural myths that shape our ideas of love and identity. Blending classic romance comics with an unsettling sci-fi twist, Love Everlasting is the perfect read for fans of stories like WandaVision, Russian Doll, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Since its launch, Love Everlasting has garnered a slew of accolades including rave reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Booklist, Foreword Reviews, and more. It was even called out in a TikTok post by the Washington Post about the resurgence in Romance comics. According to DEADLINE, Love Everlasting is currently being adapted for film from Sony Pictures Entertainment with “Room helmer Lenny Abrahamson attached to direct and Jane Goldman writing the script. Emma Watts and Element’s Ed Guiney are producing.”
Love Everlasting, Vol. 1 trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534324640, Lunar Code 1222IM865) is available now at local comic book shops,independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones.
Love Everlasting, Vol. 2 trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534398481, Lunar Code 0923IM359) is available now at local comic book shops, independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones.
Love Everlasting, Vol. 3 trade paperback (ISBN: 9781534330702) is available at local comic book shops now and will be available at independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, September 16.
Love Everlasting is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.
Select praise for Love Everlasting:
“King (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) and Charretier’s (Department of Truth, Vol. 3) gripping mystery subverts the romance-comic genre but still delivers genuine romantic melodrama.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Charretier’s thick-line cartoony character design, reminiscent of Darwyn Cooke, perfectly depicts this genre crossover, and Matt Hollingsworth’s colors capture the eeriness, avoiding primary colors with suitably subdued secondary palettes for each chapter. This series launch piles on the thrills and leaves tantalizing questions open. Readers will be eager to see the next volume.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The expressive strokes of Charretier’s art here have nostalgic warmth, but they’re more connected to the retro-modern cartooning of, say, Batman Adventures than actual art from any of those doe-eyed comics of yesteryear. This feels like then, but it’s deeply rooted in now, which makes it the ideal aesthetic for this meta take… King’s interest, as it’s often been, is deconstruction, and the narrative necessarily takes some repetition to achieve it. However, certain chapters function as gripping romances on their own merits, even as they advance toward a conceptual, distressing, but ultimately compelling culmination.” ―Booklist
“While much of the story is told in a dead-on, entertaining style that pays homage to the romance comics of the 1950s, the elements of mystery and horror that emerge make the book much more than a nostalgic indulgence. The writing is clever and builds tension throughout, while the art is impeccable in its blend of colors, linework, and style, covering settings from World War I era France to the Old West in America well. Rich themes and deep questions underpin Joan’s adventures, as about the true nature of love, the need for it, and the desire for independence and self-realization…Love Everlasting Volume 1 is a fascinating romantic horror story about a woman who shifts between lives.” ―Foreword Reviews