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Heartbreak Lake by Howard Porter and I Hits Next Week

Lex in the City Main Cover by Amanda Conner & Alex Sinclair. Copyright DC Comics
On Wednesday, January 29th, which for those of you with a calendar nearby is coming up in a little less than a week from this post coming out, DC’s Valentine’s Day anthology DC’s Lex and the City hits comic book stores.
The premise of this anthology was telling epic romance stories in DC’s various beautiful fictional cities. I had the pleasure of writing a Hawkman story set in his silver age home of Midway City. The story is called “Heartbreak Lake”. It’s drawn by the legendary Howard Porter, colored by Hi-Fi, and lettered by Dave Sharpe. Here are the first two lettered pages of the story for you to check out.

“Heartbreak Lake” Page One From DC’s Lex And the City. Pencilled/Inked by Howard Porter, Colored by Hi-Fi. Copyright DC Comics.

“Heartbreak Lake” Page Two From DC’s Lex And the City. Pencilled/Inked by Howard Porter, Colored by Hi-Fi. Copyright DC Comics.
Pretty beautiful and awesome!
Speaking of beautiful and awesome, in addition to the great Amanda Conner & Alex Sinclair main covers, the book has also has beautiful variant covers by Saowee and Sozomaika. See them here.

Lex and the City Variant Cover by Saowee. Copyright DC Comics.

Lex and the City Variant Cover by Sozomaika. Copyright DC Comics.
I hope you will check out the book when it comes out next week. And if you like it, please feel free to post something nice on your social media channels, people do see that stuff, and I believe it does help us get to the next project.
Keeping this week’s post short after last week’s novel long post. Will come back with something somewhere in the middle next week.
Stay safe!
—Dave Wielgosz