Second Dark Horse Teaser Image Gets Under Your Skin
Steve Barton
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During last April’s C2E2, Dark Horse Comics announced Ex Sanguine, a unique blend of horror and thriller from Tim Seeley, and today they’ve sent out some teaser artwork for the project that’s sure to get under your skin.
As Seeley explained Ex Sanguine in the spring, “[It] is my take on the vampire-romance genre, but instead of being full of longing and anguished staring, it’s full of brutal flirtations between two savage predators, one a vampire, one a serial killer.”
One is a natural-born killer—a remorseless hunter of men restlessly prowling the night for victims to quench an unnatural bloodlust. The other, Saul Adams, is a vampire. A bored vampire. His centuries of existence have left him world weary and detached, lost in a haze of endless memories for days or weeks on end. His latest bout of preoccupation is mercifully interrupted by federal agents.
They insinuate Saul’s complicity in the latest of a series of murders that have come to be known as “The Sanguine Killings.” Saul ignores these accusations, having eyes only for the bits of crime scenes they show him. The Sanguine Killer doesn’t just kill; he also paints primal pictographs in his victims’ blood. Where the feds see murderous compulsion and rage in the intricate patterns of Xs left on walls and sidewalks by the killer, Saul sees something different: Craft. Art.
We see the start of something pretty cool! Check back for more soon – we’re assuming it’ll come during the upcoming San Diego Comic-Con.
Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson as an offshoot of his Oregon comic-book retail chain Things From Another World. Richardson pursued the idea of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals, and twenty-five years later the company has grown to become the third-largest comics publisher in the United States. In 2011 the company celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary in style with the launch of an all-new proprietary digital-comics app, boasting hundreds of titles for download through both the iTunes store and the Dark Horse Digital storefront at digital.darkhorse.com.
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