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Joe Hill’s Comics in Hardback || Twisted Prequel to...
Joe Hill’s Comics in Hardback || Twisted Prequel to N054A2
I loved N054A2. it is a world with so much more to offer than a vampire car; it has a large cast of characters cursed with powers they don’t understand who have been drawn into battle over/in a land stitched out of an old man’s mis-rembered childhood. So many of these characters don’t get enough time on the page, and the world of N054A2 is one that seems to have only been touched on, despite the size of the book. So guess what? Joe Hill is returned to comics late last year (see his first: Locke & Key, a must read for Lovecraftians). with Wraith, which just wrapped up it’s story on June 11th. Now, hot on the pulp-back comic’s heels, is a beautiful hardback collection coming out.
Here’s what Young Joe has to say about Wraith:
"The world of NOS4A2 is very, very big, and I only had a chance to explore a part of it in the course of the novel. I told the story I wanted to tell, but I also feel there’s a lot more to discover. In NOS4A2, we learn about Charles Talent Manx the iii, who has kept himself alive for over a century by draining an essential life force out of children, warping them into giddy monsters. When he’s done with them—when Charlie has what he wants—he takes them to Christmasland, where they live forever and ever in an eternal Christmas Day. They live for fun and are good at having it, whether they’re playing a game of tag… or a bloody game of scissors for the drifter. In Wraith, we’re going back to Christmasland at an earlier time, to find out what happens when some unlucky grown-ups find themselves on Gumdrop Lane"
Judging from the few issues of Wraith I’ve read so far, Joe Hill still has a lot of good, original horror left in him. Now if only we could get his dad to stop.
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