True Story Swear to God #1

Tom Beland's autobiographical romance series arrives at Image with this charming first issue, subtitled "The true story of a real-life romance." The cover says it all — a red-haired woman and a bald man share a tender, eyes-closed almost-kiss in the foreground, with a sun-drenched tropical shoreline of palm trees and calm blue water stretching between them in the background. It's a warm, disarmingly earnest opener that sets the tone for what promises to be a heartfelt real-life love story, written, drawn, inked, and lettered entirely by Beland himself.