Letters for Lucardo gained critical acclaim when it debuted in 2017 for its sober yet sensual take on the classic vampire/mortal love story, as well as Heikkilä’s somewhat muted yet nuanced approach to the erotic subject matter. “ The story is tender, but through it courses an unbroken link of generational trauma, as each member of the Night Court family attempts to find relief, empowerment, or control over their irreversible blood-oath to a cruel god-patriarch.” Check out an exclusive preview below, and support the project on Iron Circus Comics' crowdfunding page. “ Letters for Lucardo is about love and natural desires in a supernatural setting, but it’s also about queer coming-of-age experiences that may happen later in life, all the rebirths and shedding of old skins we go through as our identity and life circumstances evolve,” Heikkilä said in a statement to Screen Rant. Though Edmund wishes to die human, Lucardo instead brings him to the Silent Lord, the god of all vampires, to offer him the chance to make the same blood oath he did. Heikkilä’s gothic horror tale of woe picks up with Lucardo learning that Edmund, from whom Lucardo was separated in the previous chapter Fortunate Beasts, is afflicted with Shifter’s Lung, a fatal condition causing him to drown in his own blood. Related: New Queer Romance Comic Anthology Puts LGBTQ+ Spin on Every Comic Genre ' The Silent Lord, and Letters for Lucardo as a whole, is an absolute masterpiece,” said Trotman in a statement. The crowdfunding initiative will be spearheaded by Iron Circus Comics Publisher Spike Trotman, a highly successful crowdfunding financier whose recent efforts to break away from traditional staple Kickstarter saw the publishing of The Poorcraft Cookbook crowdfunded completely independently, exceeding their $6,000 funding goal by almost $40,000.

Letters for Lucardo by Otava Heikkilä