One For Sorrow
A New Comic, Not By Me
You should definitely still read it though.
Jamie McKelvie, he of Wicked + Divine and Suburban Glamour, amongst others, is writing and drawing this steampunkish supernaturalish mystery thing. And since we’re friends, I got to read the first issue.
It’s great! Hence the post. The final order cutoff is September 30, which is Monday, so if you want to get it, and you should, tell your comics shop now!
It’s somewhat unfair that Jamie is good at art and writing, but he loves cats, so I suppose I’ll allow it.
What DSTLRY (the publisher) was to say about it:
London, 1900. The capital hums with the energy of the new era, but something darker lurks beneath the surface. A monstrous figure stalks the city's criminal underworld at night, leaving a trail of bloody corpses in its wake. Rumors about the mysterious killer spread like wildfire. It's a demon. A phantom. An angel of vengeance. Nothing can kill it. Nothing can stop it. And once it picks a new target, well, he better have a coffin picked out, because he's already dead.
The only clue that a baffled police force has to work with is the black and white feather left on each corpse, leading the press to dub the killer The Magpie. Is the Magpie killing at random, or is there a pattern that no one else can see?
Three individuals, strangers to each other, might together have the answer. Madame Hendrikov, the Russian medium with an upper-class clientele desperate for the secrets of the dead. Bess Turner, the East End barmaid caught up in the schemes of an organized crime gang. And Ignatious Thorn, the world's most famous consulting detective, brought to ruin by horrific tragedy.
The issues are all 48 pages, which I also like.
