Semiautomagic: Kickstarter Limited Cased Edition, w 80 pages of new stories

Throughout 2014 and 2015, line artist Jerry Ordway (Superman, Crisis, Captain Marvel), colourist Marissa Louise, and writer Alex de Campi (Archie v Predator, Grindhouse, No Mercy) serialised a modern, techno/Lovecraftian horror series in Dark Horse Presents. That series is now being collected into a 104-page softcover graphic novel, but in the meantime we've got another three Semiautomagic stories we are publishing in a special, expanded edition of that graphic novel: a box set including a second, 80-page softcover of new stories, with a new cover by Tomer Hanuka.

This is LIMITED EDITION, only 500 will be printed... and we only have about 50 left after the Kickstarter that funded it. (For more info on the Kickstarter, plus a sample of the book, go here.)

Semiautomagic follows the highs and lows (mostly lows) of occult investigator Alice Creed, an average girl from a bad part of town who ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time. A decade after the wrong turn that changed her life, she is who you call when magic ends up in murder.

But the magic of Alice's world isn't the cozy, familiar magic of Vertigo books: no myths and legends, no Bast and Queen Mab here. Just the void, and inexplicable, incomprehensible things coming through from other dimensions, other colours of space. Magic itself is a thing with barely understandable rules and many, many unforeseen results. There is a strong element of J-horror, too: one of the ways that predators and parasites come through into our world is via technology, and via places that have some profound impact on our cultural consciousness -- NATO nuclear test sites, for example. This is modern horror, set in the strange nooks and crannies of America, the forgotten places of shadow in our nation. Stay weird, America.