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NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL BY DEL JAMES TO FEATURE PRO WRESTLER'S REVENGE STORY

By Mike Johnson on 2024-12-02 14:38:00

Consensual Violence, the new graphic novel by Del James, who wrote the story Without You that inspired one of the greatest music videos of all time, Guns N' Roses' November Rain will be released in June 2025, featuring a gritty story about a female professional wrestler out for revenge after being assaulted by her trainer.  James is a long-time wrestling fan and has attended shows all over the world and is a major piece of the GNR organization.

Promotional material for the book, which will be released by Deadsky Publishing, notes:

An aspiring wrestler's life is changed forever when her trainer sexually assaults her, leading her down a dark path for revenge and on a collision course with dirty cops, cartel killers, and a remorseless rapist.

Giulia Brusco was born in Italy and graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Bologna. Her career in comics began in 2000 coloring Star Wars Tales for Dark Horse Comics, followed work with DC Comics. Her most popular works include the Millennium Trilogy adaptations, Scalped, Django Unchained, and Saucer Country for Vertigo Comics. Brusco also worked on adaptations for Marvel of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Ender's Shadow, as well as the mature readers’ Max series The Punisher. She has since worked on The Goddamned for Image Comics as well as titles for TKO presents, including Feeding Dangerously. Currently, Brusco lives in London and works on Texas Riders and Judge Dredd for 2000 AD with r.m.Gué ra.

Born and raised in New York, Del James is a meat-eating, pro-choice, sober atheist. He writes horror fiction and is best known for the short story "Without You" that inspired the "November Rain" video by Guns N' Roses. Published in numerous horror anthologies and magazines, James released a collection of short horror stories entitled The Language of Fear that's on its third printing. James has directed music videos as well as writing live television for the Ultimate Fighting Championship but prefers professional wrestling over MMA.

Arjuna Susini was born in Livorno, Italy, in 1984. He graduated from the International School of Comics in Florence in 2008. In 2011, his first comic, Bullet Ballad, was published by BD Edizioni. Since then he's worked on a growing number of titles for a myriad of publishers; Mistry P.I., Shikary Force: Hunters, Made Men, Leone, The Replacer, Heist or How to Steal a Planet, Blood of Sunset, Forever Forward, Lamentation, and as a concept artist for Mighty Box on the game Posthuman: Sanctuary. He's a teacher of the "Scuola internationale di Comics" in Florence.

 

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