Media release — These are dark times in Strakhelm, however nearly none of the realm’s subjects understand that they are living under a shadow. The royal household has been slaughtered by shapeshifting headache creatures called the Umbral, as well as the only experience is a young woman — a thief named Rascal. In UMBRAL volume ONE: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, coming from picture Comics in May, the monsters of legend of risen as well as Rascal’s only hope to save Strakhelm just may lie in the prohibited method of spellcasting as well as magic.
Writer Antony Johnston (THE FUSE, Wasteland) as well as artist Christopher Mitten (Wasteland) produce a completely realized world in UMBRAL — from the palace perched atop a sheer cliff, to the haunts of drunks as well as smugglers, to the caves of Strakhelm’s labyrinthine underworld. The range of UMBRAL is set to broaden, too, as Rascal as well as her good friends — a foul-mouthed female smuggler, a doubting scholar, as well as a mysterious wizard — embark on a determined objective across the realm to ruin the source of the Umbral’s power, even as the monsters close in on them.
UMBRAL’s richly painted art, engaging characters, as well as masterful world-building produce a story that fans of dark fantasy stories like Labyrinth as well as The Dark Crystal will lose themselves in. Its very first volume, OUT OF THE SHADOWS, collects the very first six problems as well as will be in comic book stores on may 28 as well as bookstores on June 10.
UMBRAL volume ONE: OUT OF THE shadows by Antony Johnston, Christopher Mitten, John Rauch, as well as Jordan Boyd
ISBN 978-1-60706-974-4
168 pages, full color, paperback
$9.99
In comic book stores may 28, in bookstores on June 10
Collects problems #1-6 of UMBRAL
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