IPI Comics is extremely pleased to announce that a second series of comics will be released of our successful and critically praised The Matron. It will be titled The Matron: Feud, and believe us when we say that this will be a feud that rivals the Hatfields and McCoys! When we read the outline for this new series we wondered how writers Drew Edwards and David Bowles could outdo the original, and yep, they did. Needless to say we can’t wait for the start of production.
We are also pleased to see the same A-Team working on this new project: Bowles and Edwards on scripts, Monica Gallagher on pencil and ink, Harry Saxon on colors, Stephen Kok on letters, and Jason Franks as editor. We can’t ask for better.
We will be running the six issues in pair-wise fashion in three Kickstarters, and, as usual, much more material will be available for backer than what will be presented as floppies in comic stores. The first Kickstarter will be launched in July 2027 (look for notifications on Kickstarter in coming months) and the last will be fulfilled in June 2028. The comics will be available through all good comic stores (distributed by Lunar) beginning February 2028.
The Matron: Feud‘s story will begin straight after the events of the first series (the last issue will be released early next year – we are currently up to Issue 3 in comic stores), but we can’t give anything away. The cover image above is the third and last instalment of our Kickstarter campaign which is currently running, and if you support it, is a fast-track in getting the good oil on the entire first series. Click here if you want to visit our campaign – for those who haven’t read the first two Kickstarters (equivalent to the first 4 issues) you can get digital or print back issues as well.
We stress that the Kickstarter releases the stories early and provides fans with loads of cool additional material, while if you want to just follow the story in floppy form, comic stores are the way to go and may be able to provide back catalogue orders.
Here is a synopsis of the very first Kickstarter of the original series, to whet some of your appetites:
On February 12, 1975, the Averno County sheriff department put an end to the reign of terror of Rozina Krenek, aka the Matron, a cannibalistic serial killer who had plagued the Texas Hill Country for decades wearing a wooden mask and cloak while wielding a bearded ax. Forty-six years later, the Matron’s granddaughter Zina is a middle-aged waitress struggling to make a living in the increasingly gentrified center of Ascuas, a small town near San Antonio. More than anything, she wants to see her granddaughter Roz graduate from college and earn herself a more comfortable life than the rest of the Krenek clan.
Roz appreciates the opportunity, but also wants to untangle herself from her cursed family and their hillbilly ways. Against their wishes, she is living at the dorms and has started a romantic relationship with Samantha Maldonado, whose grandfather was the very sheriff who killed the Matron.
The town welcomes the media attention brought by the anniversary of the Matron’s demise, even as meteorologists warn of a possible blizzard. In the midst of this tension, the owners of the diner where Zina works put her on notice: they are selling to outside investors, and she no longer has a job. Zina at first pleads with her bosses, then gets angry. Nothing works.
Outside, freezing wind begins to sweep the streets of Ascuas, and after nearly fifty years of fighting the urges inside her, Zina Krenek snaps. For, you see, Zina was meant to take up the mask, cloak, and ax. And now that the world is turning against her and her kin, it’s time for the Matron to rise once more to slice away power, privilege, and a pound of flesh.
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