Rolling Stone Read an Excerpt From Evanescence’s ‘Echoes From the Void’ Graphic Novel
Frontwoman Amy Lee discusses working with her sister, Carrie Lee South, on an original story based on the band’s song, “Better Without You”
By Nick Fancher
Evanescence have dropped an excerpt from the first installment of their graphic novel anthology series,
Echoes From the Void. Each issue of the series will tell stories inspired by various songs from throughout Evanescence’s catalog, with the first issue shipping June 28th drawing on two recent tracks, “Better Without You” and “Wasted on You.”
The new excerpt comes from the “Better Without You” story, which was written by frontwoman Amy Lee’s sister, Carrie Lee South, and features illustrations by Abigail Larson (Blake Northcott and Kelly McKernan wrote and illustrated the “Wasted on You” story). The opening pages find a woman in some kind of purgatory, floating through old memories as
The Shepherd #1: An Indie Series Returns With a Big Spark of Potential
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The Shepherd: Apokatastasis #1 begins with a bang. Though around for a few years now, the title from writers and co-creators Andrea Lorenzo Molinari and Roberto Xavier Molinari has found new life at Scout Comics and the effort to republish it has brought with it new stories. This first issue not only starts the original story, which we’ll get into below, but offers a look at the larger premiere of the series that first issues typically don’t provide. That window of “Here’s the larger premise” does a better job of selling the idea though and makes its new life under Scout even more exciting, which makes its later story something of a disappointment.