{"id":1537,"date":"2011-07-05T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2011-07-03T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T18:52:12","slug":"lovestruck-coming-from-image-comics-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Lovestruck coming from Image Comics in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1538\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lovestruck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1538\" title=\"Lovestruck\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lovestruck-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lovestruck from Image Comics\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lovestruck-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Lovestruck.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 85vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lovestruck by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon will be published by Image Comics in Septemer. Cover by Erik Jones.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The creative team behind <em>Gearhead<\/em>, writer <a title=\"Dennis Hopeless\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?page_id=1347\">Dennis Hopeless<\/a> and artist <a title=\"Kevin Mellon\" href=\"http:\/\/kevinmellon.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Mellon<\/a>, have a new original graphic novel coming from Image Comics this September. <em>Lovestruck<\/em> is the story of a group of people employed by the Roman god Cupid, who has turned his matchmaking prowess to profit in the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>Both Hopeless and Mellon are local Kansas City comics creators. Hopeless has also written <em>Hack\/Slash Trailers 2<\/em>. Mellon&#8217;s work has appeared in<em> Comic Book Tattoo<\/em>, <em>Hack\/Slash<\/em>, and Marvel Comics&#8217; <em>S.H.I.E.L.D<\/em>. one-shot earlier this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Mellon says that Hopeless initially pitched the idea to him as a follow up to <em>Gearhead<\/em>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was like a light kind of shone on me and it became something I not only wanted to do, but had to do,&#8221; Mellon said. &#8220;One of the many joys about working with Dennis is that everything we come up with together, I pretty much have to do. Come hell or high water.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><em>Lovestruck<\/em> features a cover by Brooklyn-based Erik Jones. The 192-page graphic novel retails for $16.99. It is currently available for pre-order from comics shops and other book outlets. <a title=\"Westfield Comics' Lovestruck offer\" href=\"http:\/\/westfieldcomics.com\/comic-books\/Lovestruck-GN\/11070746\" target=\"_blank\">Westfield Comics<\/a> has announced that copies of <em>Lovestruck<\/em> pre-ordered through the service will comics signed by Hopeless and Mellon and will include a limited edition print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The creative team behind Gearhead, writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Kevin Mellon, have a new original graphic novel coming from Image Comics this September. Lovestruck is the story of a group of people employed by the Roman god Cupid, who has turned his matchmaking prowess to profit in the modern world. Both Hopeless and Mellon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/?p=1537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lovestruck coming from Image Comics in September&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,419],"tags":[669,160,195,507,508],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-creators","category-new-releases","tag-dennis-hopeless","tag-image-comics","tag-kevin-mellon","tag-lovestruck","tag-westfield-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kansascitycomics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}