Meet Joe D. in THE ROADIE #1

Next week Dark Horse Comics will launch The Roadie #1. The first subject of the four-issue heavy metallic horror miniseries comes from the inventive workforce of author Tim Seeley, artist Fran Galán, and letterer El Torres. Today The Beat is happy to current an unique preview of the collection’ debut subject.

Here’s how Dark Horse describes The Roadie #1:

More than thirty-five years after his heyday, a former heavy metallic roadie should return to the backroads of America to do a job he thought he’d retired from: exorcist. But this time, he’s not saving groupies and drunk bassists. He’s making an attempt to save lots of his daughter.

The Roadie is the newest Dark Horse Comics work for author Tim Seeley, whose earlier collection for the writer embrace Sundowners, which he wrote and artist Jim Terry illustrated, and Ex Sanguine, which he co-wrote and illustrated with co-writer Josh Emmons. It’s the primary collaboration between Seeley and artist Fran Galán, whose earlier Dark Horse credit embrace Lucky Devil with author Cullen Bunn.

In an announcement again when the collection was first introduced, Seeley described his inspiration for the guide and its major character:

“I wanted to tell the story of the ‘unsung hero’ of the 80s Satanic Panic era…,” Tim Seeley says, “the roadies who supported all those metal bands, not only by tuning their guitars, but by casting out the horrific demons they accidentally summoned with backwards lyrics and screaming riffs. Joe D. is the seventh son of a seventh son, and though once he stood next to greatness, he now wallows in obscurity…. until he gets called upon to return to a past he thought he’d left far behind. THE ROADIE is part Hack/Slash, part Revival, and all heart, with Fran Galan doing some absolutely rockin’ art.”