#duppy78

Duppy ’78 is currently available only as a digital comic which, with all due respect to those who enjoy their comics in that format, is something of a shame. This book certainly deserves a physical collection as well. A wild, unruly ride into a hallucinatory urban shadowland, Duppy ’78will take you back to the pre-Vertigo days of Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing and Jamie Delano’sHellblazer. Taut, gut-wrenching horror with a lurking malignancy at its core, it once again underlines the ever unpredictable nature of the Com.x publishing philosophy.

In February, former Vertigo editor Casey Seijas and artist Amancay Nahuelpan are taking comics fans to 1970s Jamaica with the Com.X graphic novel Duppy ’78. Into the capital of Kingston to be exact, to follow a fictional gang war that [...]

January 2014 *** Three crime lords fight for control using black market guns, potent narcotics, and young mystics called "Obeahman." These children possess the power to control the Duppy -- malevolent spirits known throughout Rastafarian culture as a source of mischief and harm. When one of the crime lords is killed, the Jamaican capital is thrown into chaos as the remaining factions vie for control and race to find his now-orphaned Obeahman -- rumored to be the most powerful of them all. A re-imagining of Jamaican and Rastafarian ghost stories, told in the context of a 1978 gangland drama.

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