A Review of ‘Faithless Vol. 1’ Reveals NSFW Magic

Writer: Brian Azarello / Artist: Maria Llovet / Boom! Studios It’s very easy to fall into reading the same genre over and over again. You get accustomed to a certain style of storytelling, common archetypes and stand-ins, narrative beats. It becomes familiar and easy to fall back. But when we don’t push our boundaries, we miss out on a wide catalog of stories that may also intrigue and captivate us if given the chance. I, like many others, make sure to ask my friends at the local comic book shop what they’re reading and what they recommend to try and broaden the proverbial months. And many, many months ago, one of my friends recommended Azarello’s and Llovet’s Faithless. I picked up the first issue and enjoined it enough but didn’t get around to adding it to my regular pull. Flash forward to the present day, Faithless II is getting ready to drop and considering I have a little bit more time on my hands, I decide to revisit the book properly and lemme tell you: I have not read anything quite like it, and I was blushing a good three quarters of the books. Best way that I can describe Faithless is that is a supernatural horror erotica comic, and those adjectives may or may not be in the correct order. This is very much a not safe work piece of fiction, rated M for mature, but if you’re willing to take the plunge, you’ll be treated to a visually tantalizing book that re-contextualizes the unholy trinity of sex, death, and magic. And as sacrilegious as it might be to say, I think …