City of Others

Stosh Bludowski is a killer, born with the capacity for no apparent human emotion other than rage. Killing comes easy for Blud, and he makes a good living doing what's easy - until the day he meets two jobs in an alley who just won't die, and a grotesque mystery unfolds right in front of him. Soon, the remorseless killer is confronted by a reality he could never imagine, and he will be invited to make a decision once and for all . . . is he human, or is he Other?

From Booklist

An outstanding feature of any Bernie Wrightson graphic novel is his painstaking attention to detail, especially when his subjects include corpses and bloodthirsty monsters. Collaborating with veteran scripter Niles, Wrightson puts his anatomical expertise to grisly good use in this exquisitely illustrated story about a remorseless hired assassin. Stosh Bludowski’s taste for killing keeps him gainfully employed until his career hits a sudden roadblock in the form of two targets who simply refuse to die. Following the maps tattooed on his victims’ severed arms, Bludowski stumbles into a haven of vampires facing a murderous ambush of zombies. To survive the onslaught, Bludowski’s only recourse is to side with the vampires and become one of the undead himself. A dangling side plot focusing on the zombies’ mastermind promises further episodes in Bludowski’s quest to track down that unsavory nemesis. While Bludowski’s own brutal demeanor may not exactly endear him to many readers, Wrightson’s superbly arranged panels and vividly rendered action sequences should keep this new antihero’s adventures interesting. --Carl Hays

About the Author

Steve Niles was born June 21, 1965. He is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society, and Batman: Gotham County Line. Niles was born in Jackson, New Jersey, and he was raised in the Washington, DC suburbs, developing various creative interests in music, writing, and making amateur films. He is credited among other contemporary writers for bringing horror comics back to prominence.Bernie Wrightson (1948–2017) was a comic book artist and the famed creator of Swamp Thing. He was educated at the Famous Artists School and soon after got a job working for the Baltimore Sun. He made the switch to comic books in 1968 with The House of Mystery and had a storied career in illustration, often working in the horror genre. You can learn more about Wrightson at berniewrightson.com.

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