If we’ve learned anything from fairy tales from the Brothers
Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, it’s that magic powers usually have a hefty
price attached. This October, S.M. Vidaurri (Jim Henson’s The Storyteller:
Witches, Iron: Or, the War After) brings us his new Archaia original graphic
novel Iscariot, the story of Carson, a young girl living with cancer whose life
is changed when she is granted an age-old magic by the rebellious magician
Iscariot.
Carson must now navigate her powers, face a life she thought
she’d left behind, and take on an order of magicians who want to control her
destiny. Carson wants to trust Iscariot, but his intentions might not be as
altruistic as they first appeared, and she’ll have to trust her own feelings to
decide what to do.
“Shane’s hand-painted watercolors evoke so much emotion that
it’s easy to get sucked into the mood of this story,” said BOOM! Studios
Editor-in-Chief Matt Gagnon. “From his cold, quiet espionage story Iron: Or,
the War After to his richly embellished ‘The Magic Swan Goose and the Lord of
the Forest’ story in Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches, Shane has captured
our attention time and again. Iscariot is the story of a little girl figuring
out what to do with a life she thought was ending and struggling with a destiny
that was forced upon her. Most of all, it’s about magic, and what that means to
these characters.”
Iscariot hardcover (6" x 9", 144 pages, full
color, hardcover) arrives in comic shops from Archaia on October 7th with a
cover illustrated by creator S.M. Vidaurri for the price of $24.99. It will be available in book stores on October
13th.
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