A Bit of Introspection, A Bit of Sexiness, and a Bit of Bloody Action – An Interview with ‘Violent Flowers’ Creator, Maria Llovet

We here at Black Nerd Problems are thankful to once again have the opportunity to sit down with Maria Llovet. Her latest comic series, Violent Flowers, is slated to release this September and we managed to get a sneak peek at the first issue and got to ask some questions about Llovet’s latest vampiric tale. BlackNerdProblems: You recently had another series from Image finish up earlier this year, Crave, which centered around a mysterious social media app. Was the decision to pivot into the inner workings of a long-lived Vampire clan intentional or more coincidental? Were there any particular mindsets you found that you had to break out of? Maria Llovet: It was coincidental! I have lots of scripts in various states of development, and I’ve been working on some of them on and off for 10 years already! When I’m finishing a project, I usually already have in mind what I want to do next. The problem is that when it’s time to actually start, I often change my mind. Sometimes I even write the whole script and then decide on something else. With Violent Flowers, it was a project I had been thinking about for a long time. It’s a broad project in the sense that it covers a lot of different characters, with many different stories and lives. That’s why I decided the best option was to explore these characters, their entanglements, and their world through separate standalone stories. The hardest part was figuring out where to start telling this “saga.” I have several more stories in deve…