Athanasia
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- USD 17.99
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- USD 17.99
Descripción editorial
Watchmen meets Unbreakable in the darkly disturbing supernatural tale, ATHANASIA, where the heroic dead bleed power into the ground … only to be unearthed by a down-on-her-luck young woman to unforeseeable consequences.
Some secrets are best left buried.
Forrest Molson is going nowhere. One year out of high school -- and one year into sobriety -- she's working with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the final resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City's resident superheroes. At her lowest point, Forrest discovers Athanasia's darkest secret. At night, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the spectacular substances that ooze from rotting superheroes. This ooze becomes Forrest's new drug -- and she's intent on using her unpredictable new powers to be judge, jury, and executioner of Venture City's evil citizens. But as she loses her mind to her new addiction, she inches closer to becoming the most evil of all. ATHANASIA is a superhero story seen through the darkest lens.
From New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Autumnal, Whalefall, The Shape of Water) and rising star artist Dani!
For fans of the graphic novels Black Hammer (Jeff LeMire/Dean Ormston), Watchmen (Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons), The Crow (James O’Barr +Film), Kingdom Come (Mark Waid/Alex Ross), Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore/Brian Bolland), The Boys (Garth Ennis/Darick Roberson), The Authority (Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch); the films Darkman, Chronicle, and Unbreakable and the novels Alter Ego (Alex Segura), Secret Identity (Alex Segura),V.E. Schwab’s Villains series (Vicious and Vengeful), and Jennifer Estep’s Elemental Assassin series.
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Novelist Kraus (The Autumnal) and artist Dani (The Low, Low Wood) serve up a provocative and unsettling superhero horror story. For generations, the Molson family has tended Athanasia Cemetery, resting place for fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City's protectors. After her younger sister's death in a grim boneyard accident, Forrest Molson has dropped out of high school, developed a pill addiction, and upset her father with rants about the family's exploitation by would-be gods. Forrest gets a taste of power when she discovers—and, in squirm-inducing and psychedelic-styled panels, ingests—a green goo oozing up from the graves. Her new super-abilities are unpredictable, the goo is addictive, and her efforts to right the everyday wrongs the guild ignores prove harrowing. The narrative holds to Forest's angsty street-level perspective as she alienates family, friends, and crushes but connects with creepy goo-fed bird pets. Kraus finds fresh angles on grief, vigilantism, and comic-book science, while Dani's art—inky black-and-white with splashes of green—conjures dread among spare streets and snowed-over tombstones, even if some of the gothic grimness wears thin. Still, horror fans will find this smart and unpredictable.
