Ahead of its presentation at San Di❀ego Comic-Con 2022, Boom! Studios has announced a new horror series, Damn Them All, for debut in October.
Writꦚten by Simon Spurrier, illustrated by Charlie Adlard, c♋olored by Sofie Dodgson, and lettered by Jim Campbell, Damn Them All is about an "occult antihero in a dark supernatural thriller."
The series follows Ellie 'Bloody El' Hawthorne, an occultist-for-hire, as she mourns her late uncle who was an occult detective himself, as well as a magiꦗcian. Now, the 72 devils of the Ars Goetia have been freed from Hell and Ellie has to track them down and damn them individually.
"Damn Them All is the right project﷽ at the right time. A series mixing crime and occultism, it's the perfect fusion of Charlie’s peerless storytelling and my own ghastl♓y preoccupations," Spurrier says in the announcement.
"It's hard-boiled, it's clever, it's bleakly funny, but above all, it's angry to its core. Angry at the world, at the injustice, at the £$%#s who run thꦏe show, and ultimately at the creator responsible for this utterly imperfect creation. This is a book about demons, in which – spoilers – the demons aren't the bad guys."
Adlard adds that hওe's wanted to work with Boom! and 🐠Spurrier for some time. "Then the planets aligned and the perfect partnership was formed. With the perfect book. Damn Them All is everything I want a comic book to be. Intense. Atmospheric. Brutal. Horrific. And, above all, a mighty fine read!"
Check 🐼out a preview of Damn Them All #1 below, including covers by Adlard, DANI, Christian Ward, and Sean Phillips.
Damn Them All #1 will be available in October.
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