The folks at Vault Comics have announced a new, March-debuting series entitled “Queen of Bad Dreams.” The series, written by Danny Lore (editor of “The Wilds”), illustrated by Jordi Pérez (“Grand Theft Astro”), colored by Dearbhla Kelly (“Paradiso”), and lettered by Kim McLean (“Friendo”), will follow a “dream hunter” named Daher as she follows the trail of a new dream that has emerged into reality.
“When a dream entity known as a figment emerges from a dreamer’s mind, it’s Daher’s job as an IJ to track them down and make the call: reinsert the figment, or grant them agency in our world,” reads the series’s synopsis, revealed over at Paste. “After an especially powerful figment escapes the dreams of an even more powerful politician’s son, Daher is pulled headlong into an investigation that traces all the way back to the incident that sent dreams, even nightmares, spilling into our reality.”
Speaking about the series, Lore ruminated on the nature of identity, dreams, and cycles and how all three will play into the larger story being told in “Queen of Bad Dreams.”
“‘Queen’ is the story of a small group of women, both dreamers and dreams, who break the pattern — who fight to win. Ava, who steps out of the dreams of a spoiled rich man, and Daher, who breaks protocol to help her, are at the center of the story, but they’re not the only ones in these pages who are discovering what happens next.
‘Queen of Bad Dreams’ is my way of telling fellow dreamers: you deserve to step into the waking world as vibrant and as powerful as you are in your dreams. You deserve to be more than a pawn in someone else’s.”
In addition to Lore’s full statement, Paste has an exclusive look at character sketches and preview pages from the March-debuting series. Click here to take a look at more from “Queen of Bad Dreams.”
