Devil (Dark Horse Comics) – Issue 1

DEVIL #1 (of 4) Torajiro Kishi (W/A) and Madhouse Studios (W/A) On sale Feb Feb 3 FC, 24 pages $2.99 Miniseries Manga artist Torajiro Kishi (Maka-Maka) and blockbuster anime studio Madhouse (Trigun, Paprika, Ninja Scroll) love comics. So much so that they’ve decided to publish an original, Western-style comic exclusively with Dark Horse! Enter Devil, a thrilling, sci-fi take on the vampire genre. A virus is raging across the planet, turning people into bloodsucking superhumans referred to as ‘Devils.’ Most victims die within days, sometimes months, but there’s a new strain, a new class of Devil that threatens to overtake mankind with power and bloodthirst. This new class of Devils derive from an experiment to clone a virus victim, and it looks like science has created a true monster this time. Can Takimoto and the Devil Investigation Section of the Tokyo police force stop this societal scourge? We’ll just have to see. o Exclusive comic specifically for the American audience and only available from Dark Horse! This disease will devour mankind.