Summary
An escaped demon must chase down his own kind as a bounty hunter inLiving Hell, a newDark Horse Comicsseries fromBlack Hammer: RebornartistCaitlin Yarsky. Blending elements ofBlade Runner 2049andBuffy the Vampire Slayer,Living Hellis Yarsky’s first solo series as a writer and artist.Screen Rantis pleased to present an exclusive first look at the series.
Set to be released this fall,Living Hellcenters around Jerome Jameel, a demon who has escaped from his prison in Hell to live on Earth. A loving husband and father, Jerome hides in plain sight as a bartender, determined to stay out of trouble. But that all changes when he kills one of Hell’s most vicious bounty hunters in self-defense.
Suddenly,Jerome finds himself inheriting the bounty hunter’s job, hunting fellow monsters as an infernal bailiff.
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Having lost his chance at a quiet life, Jerome is thrust into the world of demonic bounty hunters.In his new role, he must fight a variety of ancient monsters and deities, from corpse-eating ghosts of Japanese folklore known as Jikininki, to psychopomps like Baron Samedi, a spirit of the dead from Haitian Vodou. With every act of betrayal Jerome commits in pursuit of his targets, he loses a little bit more of his hard-earned humanity.
“Almost every mythology around the world has its own version of an underworld – a land of the dead, the embodiment of despair,” Yarsky explained. “Living Hellexplores the lengths we’ll go to transcend generational trauma and the prisons of our past. It’s a story about family, the fantasy of a clean slate, and, of course, cool monsters.”
As a series that blends fantasy and supernatural elements with genre-subverting action,Living Hellis a perfect showcase for Yarsky’s talents. Her first comic series wasCoyoteswith writer Sean Lewis from Image Comics. Described as “UnderworldmeetsSicario,”Coyotescenters around a detective and a mysterious young girl battling werewolves that are hunting women at the border. Lewis and Yarsky later teamed up forBliss, a story of a man who becomes a hitman for three gods.
Yarsky has also worked on DC Comics books like the recentAbsolute Power: Task Force VII#1 with writer Leah Williams,Wonder Woman: Olympus Rebirthwith writers Michael Conrad and Becky Cloonan, as well asCatwoman#47 with writer Tini Howard. She wrote and drew the story “Sisters of Angelus” for the 2020Buffy the Vampire Slayeranthology,Every Generation.She served as the main artist onBlack Hammer: Reborn, the follow-up to the award-winningBlack Hammerseries created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston.
“From the moment she started drawingBlack Hammer,I knew Caitlin Yarsky was a special artist and talent,” Lemire said. “And with her solo debut, Living Hell,she fully arrives as a force to be reckoned with in comics!”
With an intriguing premise and plenty of material to draw on,Caitlin Yarsky’s infernal dark fantasyLiving Hellis a series to look out for when it is released byDark Horse Comicslater this year.
