A strip mall heist, a satanic cult, and another lousy shift at a minimum wage job—grab a #2 with fries and settle in for a hilarious thrill ride! Marty Tarantella has been flipping burgers for 15 years. He has no kids, no hobbies, no love interests, and, essentially, no life. But what he does have is a plan to change everything. Years of watching the daily rhythms of the neighboring stores has given Marty the idea for a perfect heist, but when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from a cult full of violent lunatics, the resulting Satanic panic will be way above his minimum-wage pay grade. Nothing can prepare you for the coming of TRVE KVLT, a deliciously horrifying and hilarious new series from SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Nights, Pennyworth) and LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy, Razorblades).

Marty and Alison face the supremely creepy Doctor Shiver! Escape from the subterranean skyscraper! Veronika brags about her allegiance to Satan!!! Bernice listens to her!!! Stunning PENULTIMATE EPISODE!!! Are you with us?! You better be because “There’s No One Else I’d Rather Be Incinerated and Sent to Hell with Than You”—that’s the title of the issue, BTW— is how we feel about you. From LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy) and SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Nights, Altered Carbon, Pennyworth).

The Satanic Panic continues! Marty realizes that Burger Lord wasn’t so bad compared to the job the Church of the Immortal Heartbeat has in store for him and Alison. Meanwhile, Bernice goes all CSI trying to figure out what’s going on, and somebody’s gonna make out with Ratblood in the parking lot! But WHO?! Hope you’ve got that extra-large soda ready, because things are getting spicy in this very special episode of Trve Kvlt, from the devilishly dynamic duo of LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy) and SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Knights, Pennyworth).

We’re off the grill and into the fryer with this one, gang. Marty and Alison go deep undercover in the headquarters of the Church of the Immortal Heartbeat, but can their squishy mortal minds stand up to the devilish dilemmas that await them inside? ALSO, Bernice and Veronika Vargas-Vo go head-to-head, and it’s going to be messier than the back booths after a youth soccer team lunch. You know the kids we’re talking about. It’s secrets, lies, and a side of fries in “Soft Skills and C-Minus Nachos,” from SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Nights, Pennyworth) and LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy).

Bernice is in Hell (figuratively) as she and an unusually introspective Veronika search for Marty and Alison, who are in Hell (literally), which isn’t fun but is still better than being elbow deep in a broken milkshake machine with angry customers screaming at you. Satan and his demons walk the Earth, the age of endless pain is nigh, and two fan favorites from issue one finally make their triumphant return! It’s going to be a hell of a time in the super special final issue of TRVE KVLT from SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Nights, Altered Carbon, Pennyworth) and LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy).

Marty Tarantella has been flipping burgers for 15 years. He has no kids, no hobbies, no love interests, and, essentially, no life. But what he does have is a plan to change everything. Years of watching the daily rhythms of the neighboring stores has given Marty the idea for a perfect heist, but when he accidentally steals a supernatural weapon from a cult full of violent lunatics, the resulting Satanic panic will be way above his minimum-wage pay grade. Nothing can prepare you for the coming of Trve Kvlt, a deliciously horrifying and hilarious new series from SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman: Gotham Knights, Pennyworth) and LIANA KANGAS (Star Wars Adventures, She Said Destroy)

This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic exchanges, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny, it focuses on the many uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of irony in contemporary popular culture, and explores the troubling political populism at the heart of many supposedly satirical and (apparently) non-satirical texts. In an environment in which irony is frequently claimed as a defence for material and behaviour judged controversial, how do we, as a society entrenched in forms of popular culture and media, interpret work that is intended as satire but which reads as unironic? How do we accurately decode works of popular film, literature, television, music, and other cultural forms which sell themselves as bitingly ironic commentaries on current society, but which are also problematic celebrations of the very issues they purport to critique? And what happens when texts intended and received in one manner are themselves ironically recontextualised in another? Bringing together studies across a range of cultural texts including popular music, film and television, Isn’t it Ironic? will appeal to scholars of the social sciences and humanities with interests in cultural studies, media studies, popular culture, literary studies and sociology.