Gastronomique #1 Review: Hunger, Desire, and Death Feast on Revolutionary Paris

Gastronomique #1 Review: Hunger, Desire, and Death Feast on Revolutionary Paris BOOM! Studios serves up a vicious new historical horror series as Marguerite Bennett and Helena Masellis turn appetite, revenge, sexuality, and cannibalism into one of the most provocative comic debuts of the summer. There are horror comics that want to make you afraid. There are others that want to make you uncomfortable. Gastronomique #1 wants to make you hungry, horrified, fascinated, and perhaps a little ashamed that you cannot look away. Writer Marguerite Bennett, artist Helena Masellis, colorist Nisha Singh, and letterer Jodie Troutman open BOOM! Studios’ new series with a decadent collision of historical thriller, erotic horror, revenge story, and body horror set against the violence and instability of revolutionary France. The issue arrives on August 12, 2026, with BOOM! positioning the series as a queer erotic body-horror tale built around desire in all its forms. At its center are two predators. One consumes because he seemingly cannot stop. The other hunts because she refuses to. Tarrare is the cannibal. Lady Charlotte is the Python. And Gastronomique #1 understands that the most interesting ...