Critically acclaimed novelist Gus Moreno made waves with his debut book, This Thing Between Us. And now he’s teaming up with artist Jakub Rebelka for a new BOOM! Studios comic titled When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee.
Set in the South American town of Puerto Cristina, a disgraced priest and his apprentice are tasked with performing exorcisms. However, the older priest doesn’t quite listen to the training of the Vatican, and as the apprentice dives deeper into his weird approach to getting rid of demons, things take a decidedly supernatural turn.
“On an island at the edge of the world, where exorcists are also detectives, demonic possession is only half the story. When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee combines the gritty police procedural with the iconography of religious horror, where nothing is what it seems, and what you think you know may end up putting your soul in peril,” said Moreno via press release provided to Comic Book Club.
As things get worse, and the possessions increase, the clues all point to a comatose hospital patient, “one who’s been in that condition for half a century without aging a single day.”
The book features a main cover by Rebelka, and variants by Jacob Phillips, InHyuk Lee, and Jae Lee & June Chung. You can check those out below, as well as interior pages. Click for larger versions.
When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee #1 hits comic book stores on January 1, 2025.
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