They say truth is stranger than fiction, and that's definitely the case with She's Running on Fumes. The latest addition to the Comixology Originals library, this new crime thriller is inspired writer Dennis Hopeless' own sordid family history.
IGN can exclusively debut a preview of She's Running on Fumes #1, which debuts on Amazon Kindle on Tuesday, February 6. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
The series is drawn by Grass Kings artist Tyler Jenkins, with watercolor art by Hilary Jenkins. The creative team also includes letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and editor Heather Antos.
She's Running on Fumes is set in Deepwater, Missouri circa 1984. After a criminal named Jody is severely injured in a car wreck, his wife discovers he was a drug trafficker and begins her own criminal career in a desperate bid to keep her family afloat. The twist is that this tale of crime and survival is inspired by Hopeless' own parents.
“When I was 3-years-old my mother started a chop shop with a half-wit junkyarder named Corn Dog,” said Hopeless in a statement. “Dad was the criminal. Mom had never broken a law in her life, but with him brain-damaged, fifty-thousand dollars of cocaine gone missing and hospital bills piling up, grand theft auto was our only hope.”
Hopeless continued, “She’s Running on Fumes is based on the true story of how my mom lied, cheated and stole her way through dad’s tire fire and the freedom she found out the other side. The story is based on family stories and my father’s near-fatal accident from when I was a toddler. As I grew older, details were added that made it clear my father was a criminal and many of the events of my childhood were driven by his criminal dealings. The seeds of the idea came from asking my mother about these old stories as an adult and getting the real dirt.”
She's Running on Fumes will be released on Tuesday, February 6. Like all Comixology Originals titles, She's Running on Fumes will be free to read for subscribers of Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading, and the series can also be purchased individually.
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