New Radical Genre Comics Released This Week: Driver for the Dead, Hotwire: Deep Cut, Ryder on the Storm
Debi Moore
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Comic book fans have a lot to look forward to this week as Radical Publishing is releasing a trio of new horror properties, all of which will be three-part series: Driver for the Dead, Hotwire: Deep Cut, and Ryder on the Storm.
The comics’ artwork and synopses follow. To order your copies from Radical Publishing, click the individual titles.
DRIVER FOR THE DEAD #1 (1 of 3)
Radical introduces a new supernatural horror set in the heart of Louisiana. Alabaster Graves is a driver for the dead. As a veteran of funeral homes, mortuaries, and coroners’ offices across the Deep South, Graves chauffeurs hundreds of 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 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.
Creator and Writer – JOHN HEFFERNAN
Artist – LEONARDO MANCO
Cover Artist – LEONARDO MANCO
Mature Readers
Price: $4.99
Page Count: 56
Format: Full Color
HOTWIRE VOL. 2: DEEP CUT #1 (1 of 3)
Detective Exorcist Alice Hotwire is back! After the events of Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead, the city’s only supernatural investigator is taking some much needed R&R. But when a Blue Light from her colored past appears in front of her door, it sparks a series of events that lead Hotwire and Mobey across the city attempting to stop the results of a secret government project from turning the city into another living nightmare. With backup from Coroner Love and Metro Police, can Hotwire and Mobey save the day one more time? Join groundbreaking creator/writer/illustrator Steve Pugh for a glimpse into Alice Hotwire’s past and peer through a gateway into her future.
Created by STEVE PUGH and WARREN ELLIS
Writer and Illustrator – STEVE PUGH
Letterer – STEVE PUGH
Cover Artist – STEVE PUGH
Price: $3.50
Page Count: 32
Format: Full Color
RADICAL PREMIERE: RYDER ON THE STORM
From the team that brought you FVZA, a special $1.00 preview comic for the upcoming three-issue, bi-monthly miniseries, brimming with elements of H.P. Lovecraft, mixed into a noir mystery.
Ryder on the Storm follows Ryder, a private eye hired by the beautiful femme fatale Katrina Petruska to investigate the horrifically bizarre suicide of her lover, Michael Hudson. Ryder’s journey to solve the case and finish Hudson’s work leads him to discover a truth more sinister and terrifying than he could ever have imagined – daemons walk among us. Now he must team up with the last daemon hunter, Charles Monk, to take down the cabal of ancient evil controlling the city while struggling to reconcile the dark side of his own nature.
Writer – DAVID HINE
Artist – WAYNE NICHOLS
Cover Artist – FRANCESCO “MATT” MATTINA
Mature Readers
Price: $1.00
Page Count: 16, no ads
Format: Full Color
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