Via Entertainment Weekly, “Monstress” creators Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda are reteaming at Abrams ComicArts for “The Night Eaters,” a trilogy of horror graphic novels beginning this fall. The series follows Milly and Billy, a pair of Chinese American twins who are struggling to keep their restaurant afloat, when their parents, Ipo and Keon, come to visit.
Ipo and Keon are immigrants from Hong Kong, who can’t help but wonder if they’ve raised their children to be “incapable of standing on their own.” Events take a much darker turn “when Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door — a hellish, run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder — [and] the twins [find themselves] in for a night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem that reveals there’s much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.”
The book is the latest collaboration between Liu, a American author, and Takeda, a Japanese artist: the pair first worked together on Marvel’s “X-23” in the early 2010s, before going on to create the fantasy series “Monstress” at Image in 2015. The series earned the pair the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story for three years in a row, and led to Liu becoming the first woman to win the Eisner for Best Writer (albeit tied with Tom King) in 2018.
Liu told EW, “I cannot begin to express how delighted I am to be creating another series with Sana Takeda. ‘The Night Eaters’ is an exciting shift for us, both in art and writing style — a contemporary Asian American horror story and urban fantasy — and we are deeply grateful to Abrams ComicArts for this opportunity to push ourselves creatively.” Takeda briefly added that the novel is “a wonderful challenge.”
The first entry in the series, “The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night,” will be released in bookstores on October 11. Head to EW for a one-page preview in the meantime; “Monstress” #41 has also been solicited for release in June.
