Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, essentially the most dependable duo in comics, are again with a brand new graphic novel in August, HOUSE OF THE UNHOLY. The story will deal with cults, satanic panic, and serial killers. Good occasions! Jacob Phillips provides the coloring.
The plot define undoubtedly covers all of the bases: an FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a girl with a previous linked to the Satanic Panic crew as much as hunt for a killer with ties to the underworld. Along the way in which they query whether or not you possibly can ever really escape your previous (a Brubaker/Phillips perennial theme.)
“Houses of the Unholy is something I’ve been describing as Satanic Panic Noir. It’s somewhere in-between a creepy horror story and a f*cked-up noir, and directly tied to the Satanic Panic craze of the ’80s,” mentioned Brubaker in an announcement. “The book really speaks to my obsessions with cult horror, and plays with the demonic tropes of classic horror from Hammer to Carpenter to Stephen King. The fear that was everywhere back then has clearly resurfaced, and that made me want to dive back into those dark waters and try to find a Brubaker-Phillips take on noir and horror at the same time.”
Brubaker and Phillips are identified for teaming up for greater than 20 years with such tales as Criminal, Pulp, The Fade Out, Reckless, Night Fever, and Where the Body Was – a physique of labor that explores the darkish aspect of humanity with a mode each brutal and elegant.
They’ve additionally pioneered a reasonably distinctive area of interest for themselves – releasing a sequence of standalone (with a couple of Easter eggs) graphic novels as an alternative of serializing them first. They’re the closest factor comics has to against the law writer who seems dependable bestsellers on the common.
And they’ll undoubtedly get one other burst of consideration when a deliberate Amazon sequence based mostly on Criminal debuts.
Houses of the Unholy (ISBN: 9781534327429) will probably be out there at native comedian e-book retailers on Wednesday, August 14 and impartial bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, and Indigo on Tuesday, August 13, in addition to digital platforms, together with Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
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