This week Dark Horse Comics will launch The Ward #4. The last subject of the fantasy medical drama comes from author Cavan Scott, artist Andres Ponce, letterer Mauro Mantella, and canopy artists Ponce and Franco Riesco. Today The Beat is completely satisfied to share an unique first take a look at the story’s concluding chapter, which finds St. Lillith’s on the middle of a supernatural disaster.
Here’s how Dark Horse describes The Ward #4:
A supernatural epidemic is sweeping the town of Kirton-sparing nobody, human or not. The screams of the contaminated wail via St. Lilith’s with no treatment in sight. Patients are spilling into the hallways and being turned away. Dr. Nat Reeves is doing all she will, however she’s only one individual. Saving the town might require drastic measures . . .
Described as “Hellboy meets ER,” The Ward focuses on a secret hospital for supernatural creatures in the fictional metropolis of Kirton. Back when the sequence was first introduced, author Cavan Scott described his inspiration for the sequence and its major character, Dr. Nat Reeves:
“I’ve always been fascinated in ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the most incredible of situations,” says Scott, “and that actually describes the indomitable Nat Reeves as she plunges head first into a shift in the world’s solely emergency room for supernatural entities. From murderous minotaur to gelatinous cubes with extreme circumstances of meals poisoning, no two sufferers are alike at St. Lilith’s.
“However, as we know from shows like E.R. and Grey’s Anatomy, the biggest dramas come from the lives of the medical staff themselves and St. Lilith’s is no different. As Nat navigates everything from the troubled birth of a giantess’s baby to a growing plague among the preternatural patients, she must also balance her life as a mother with the professional jealousies she faces every day in her job. Can she keep her work at St. Lilith’s a secret while protecting those closest to her?”
Check out the unique five-page preview of The Ward #4 (of 4) beneath. Look for the problem to reach in shops and digitally tomorrow, September seventh.
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