Chad Burdette
DEPROG, the groundbreaking and thrilling comics series from co-creators Tina Horn (comics series SfSx and book Why Are People Into That) and Lisa Sterle (Witchblood), joined forces with colorist Gab Contreras (Trve Kvlt) and cover artist DANI (Carmen Maria Machado’s The Low Low Woods) to bring the world a tale that evokes John Constantine meets Jessica Jones with a kinky Midsommar twist.
DEPROG follows Tate Debs, a hardboiled, hard-drinking, leather-loving dyke detective with an office in the back of Los Angeles’s last video store. Tate specializes in rescuing and deprogramming people from abusive groups with extreme beliefs – like the one Tate herself escaped, that believed in inter-dimensional travel and taboo ritual sex. When a femme named Vera, who may just be fatale, hires Tate to infiltrate a group of mystical hippies out in the desert, she must decide if Vera’s charms are worth being re-traumatized. Soon, Tate must face her past out of devotion to the femme she may be falling for, and a single-minded drive to avenge her family.
In this interview, Tina discusses the series, her writing career and more:
DEPROG is the latest release from Dead Sky Publishing, whose co-publisher is Steve Wands who said about the series:
“Comics has long been a male-dominated industry. The industry needs women. It needs new voices. New points of view. We want to be a publisher that can affect positive change and attract new readers to not just Dead Sky, but to comics and it’s important that we do so in a meaningful way and not tokenizing people.”
And as to why they wanted to work with writer Tina Horn, her work is unapologetic, smart, and she writes like no one else in comics right now. She doesn’t write characters, she writes people, and then she puts them through hell.”
DEPROG is now available for purchase at your local comic shops.
