THE DARK AND BLOODY #6

Writer Shawn Aldridge (VIC BOONE) and artist Scott Godlewski (COPPERHEAD) make their debut at Vertigo with a haunting monthly horror comic series THE DARK & BLOODY.

Guns, moonshine, monsters–there’s a lot going on in the backwoods of Kentucky.

Iris Gentry is a war vet who returned from Iraq to find his options for feeding his family limited. Since they live in a “dry” county, Iris has turned to running moonshine for his former ranking officer–meaning the men now share crimes at home and abroad. You see, back in their combat days, Iris’ regiment got involved in something they shouldn’t have, and now a deadly, otherworldly consequence has come looking for vengeance.

Iris now finds himself facing past sins and present nightmares.

"The inspiration came from my own childhood in Kentucky, local folklore like the Bell Witch, and Southern Gothic fiction," stated writer Shawn Aldridge. "I tried to distill what I loved and feared growing up in and around the woods into this story. Granted I never made moonshine or had to protect my family from a demon hellbent on my death, that I created for the story."

"'The Dark & Bloody' is right in my wheelhouse, artistically. It's exciting to be working in the horror genre again and I think readers will really dig what we're doing," mentions artist Scott Godlewski.

The six issue miniseries has a Southern gothic feel, but at its core it’s about being human. How far would you go for your family?

In issue #4, now that Iris’s bloody past is exposed and his connection to the mysterious Ayah revealed, there is nothing stopping Ayah from openly seeking vengeance. With Iris sent away on an overnight trip to deliver moonshine, the cursed Iraqi girl goes to Iris’s house to take his son. She’ll go through anything and anyone to get the child, including Iris’s pregnant wife!

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