To Kill the Monster, He Must Become Her Student

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

AUG. 11, 2025 (PORTLAND, OR) — What happens when the only person who can teach you how to kill… is the one who destroyed everything you loved?

Coming this November from Mad Cave Studios, screenwriter Luke Piotrowski (Hellraiser, The Night House) brings his character-driven horror sensibility to comics for the first time, teaming with acclaimed Italian artist Emanuele Ercolani(Dragonero, Kitsune), colorist Paolo Raiteri, and letterer Carlos M. Mangual—with Cover A by Andy Clarke and Jose Villarubia—FEROCIOUS is a brutal new fantasy series that doesn’t flinch from blood, or heart!

A tavern boy’s sheltered life is overturned by the arrival of a towering, draconic woman, a wayward soldier from a distant war who single-handedly lays waste to his entire village. He swears an oath of righteous vengeance, but in order to fulfill it he’ll have to seek training… from the warrior woman herself. Ferocious is epic fantasy on an intimate scale, a revenge thriller like no other, one that stirs the heart as it goes for the jugular. 

“I’ve found some success as a screenwriter over the years and made many films I’m quite proud of, but Ferocious is the story that I’ve always wanted to tell, a quest for vengeance with an emotional toll, not just a moral or physical one,” said Luke Piotrowski. ”I’m so excited to be partnering with Mad Cave on my first comic book project, a lifelong dream. And I’m thrilled to have been paired with Emanuele Ercolani. We may be separated by a geographical ocean, but we speak the same language when it comes to our influences. This is the scope and scale of high fantasy filtered through the intimate lens of a samurai film. I can’t wait for readers to meet these characters and take part in their heart-wrenching, bone-crunching journey.”

“Ferocious is the kind of story that forces you to draw with a knife between your teeth,” added artist Emanuele Ercolani. “When I read the script, I knew it wasn’t just about revenge or fantasy—there was something raw, something personal at its core. We tried to bring that constant tension to the page—the emotional weight, the clash between beauty and brutality. Every panel was built like a film shot: composition, rhythm, silence. Working with Luke has been truly inspiring. We speak the same language and feel the same things. Ferocious hits where it hurts. It’s like a katana held to your throat.”

A genre-defiant fusion of brutal fantasy and character-driven vengeance, fans of Vinland Saga, Monstress, and Berserk will be haunted by Ferocious and its emotionally complex mentorship. For readers who like their swords sharp, their trauma arcs tangled, and their storytelling lyrical and cruel.

Ferocious #1 hits shelves November 19, 2025. Final order cutoff is October 27, 2025, so preorder through your local comic shop!