writer Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and artist Chris Shehan (House of Slaughter) are teaming up at Oni Press for Mine is a Long, Lonesome Gravea supernatural revenge thriller starting in February. The four-part comic follows a former criminal, who discovers he has only seven days to live after one of his places victims a curse on him, sending him on a hunt to uncover their identity, and prevent his fate before it’s too late.
Harley Creed is a bad man. He used to be worse. A violent ex-con with a string of brutal crimes in his past, he only wanted one thing when he finally walked free from prison: to leave Briar Falls, WV, behind and disappear forever. But Harley’s hometown has a strange way of swallowing people whole — call it a consequence of the low-level folk magic that has permeated its darker corners for generations. And now that Harley has returned, pent-up vengeance for his past crimes is about to come roaring back. Somebody has put a hex on him — and Harley has seven days before he dies in twisted, screaming agony. To reverse it, Harley must find and kill his unseen enemy before their curse can reap its terrible end. But in Briar Falls, there’s no shortage of suspects — and Harley is coming for them all. If he can’t have peace, at least he can have revenge.
Jordan states, “I don’t get an opportunity to do as much crime as I want… Wait, no, I mean I don’t get a chance to do as much crime FICTION as I would like, so getting to do a crime book that is also a horror book, my other favorite genre, has been awesome. And getting to set it in Appalachia, where I’m from, is just icing on the very brutal cake.” Shehan adds, “Crime? Revenge? Witchcraft and hexes? “This is a book I was meant to draw.”
Issue #1 will retail for $4.99 in February, and will be released with the main cover by Shehan, as well as variants by Matthew Roberts (Battle Pope), Kelsey Ramsay (Moon Dogs), Jeffrey Alan Love (Absolute Batman), and Jason Shawn Alexander (Killadelphia). You can check those out below, along with an uncolored preview:
