This Summer Radical Publishing will be releasing their newest horror laced thrill ride, “DRIVER FOR THE DEAD”, and it looks great. (Although looks aren’t even close to everything in comics) The story is very high concept, and if you like the weird, macabre, and the brutal, this one should be for you. Inside you can make your own call on the title with a 4 page unlettered look at the first issue! Read on for the skinny. “Alabaster Graves is a driver for the dead. As a veteran of funeral homes, mortuaries, and coroners’ offices across the Deep South, Graves chauffers bodies to their final resting places. But now, Alabaster must cover the distance from Shreveport to New Orleans to retrieve the remains of Mose Freeman, renowned voodoo priest, with Freeman’s sultry and contumely granddaughter riding shotgun. What he doesn’t know is that he’s being pursued by a resurrectionist named Fallow – a necromancer who gets his power from stealing body parts… and for whom the corpse of Mose Freeman would be the ultimate prize.”
WRITTEN BY: John Heffernan
ILLUSTRATIONS BY: Leonardo Manco
INKS BY: Kinsun Loh & Jerry Choo
“Radical introduces a new supernatural horror set in the heart of Louisiana, from John Heffernan(screenwriter for Snakes on a Plane) and illustrator Leonardo Manco (Hellblazer).
Alabaster Graves is a driver for the dead. As a twenty-year veteran of funeral homes, mortuaries, and coroners’ offices across the Deep South, he has chauffeured hundreds of bodies to their final resting places, although the trip isn’t always so restful. Graves is a “specialty driver”, one who’s called in for the more unusual assignments that come down the pike, and if unusual equals dangerous, well, that’s just a job that pays more. Matter of fact, that’s just what Alabaster is about to get when the assignment to transport the body of renowned voodoo priest, Mose Freeman, drops in his lap. With Freeman’s sultry granddaughter riding shotgun, Alabaster must cover the distance from Shreveport to New Orleans to retrieve the remains. What he doesn’t know is that he’s being pursued by a resurrectionist named Fallow – a necromancer who gets his power from stealing body parts… and for whom the corpse of Mose Freeman would be the ultimate prize..”
“DRIVER FOR THE DEAD” Issue #1 (of 3) Drops This Summer From Radical Publishing! (MSRP-$4.99)