Comics & Graphic Novels Crime & Mystery
The Body Trade #4
- Publisher
- Mad Cave Studios
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2025
- Category
- Crime & Mystery, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Horror
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781545817322
- Publish Date
- Jan 2025
- List Price
- $4.99 USD
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Description
Kim wakes handcuffed to a hospital bed. His reckless quest for vengeance has finally caught up with him. An old friend arrives to deliver some devastating news… he’s dying. But if Kim so chooses… he can donate his body to “science”.
About the authors
Zac Thompson is a multidisciplinary writer from Prince Edward Island, Canada. He is best known for his work at Marvel Comics, including the eco-horror title Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land and showrunning the Age of X-Man event. He has also written characters like Batman and Swamp Thing at DC Comics. In 2017, Zac released his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel, The Dregs. His 2018 follow up, Come Into Me, was named one of the Best 100 Horror Comics of All Time by Paste magazine. In 2021, his science-fiction horror series I Breathed A Body was called one of the best comics of the year by SYFY. In 2022, Thompson's original screenplay The Replacer was selected for production financing from Telefilm Canada. Zac has also written stories for Vice, Huff Post, IGN, Seraphim Films, Image Comics, and many other publications. When Zac's not out foraging for mushrooms or cycling, you can find him at the cinema or walking his dog, Astra.
Jok was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the seventies and has been working as a comic book artist since 1993. His work´s been published in the US (Image, Massive, Heavy Metal, Scholastic, Capstone, Bad Bug, Alien Books and soon in Mad Cave), England (Markosia, David Lloyd´s Aces Weekly), Italy, France (Mosquito, Delcourt), Spain, Germany (Splitter), Denmark, Cyprus, Canada, China (Cixin Liu´s work adaptation), Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay.
He runs a studio along with fellow comic book creators since 2001, splitting his time amongst several endeavors, including work-for-hire projects, creator-owned books, children illustration, attending conventions all over the world and not missing a match of his weekly soccer with friends and colleagues.
Hassan is a British/Algerian comics letterer, and has worked on titles like Vault Comics’ The Blue Flame, Black Stars Above, The RUSH, Engineward, No One’s Rose, and TEST, as well as X-O Manowar, First Knife, and Undone By Blood. He's also the editor of the Eisner-winning PanelxPanel, and voice behind Strip Panel Naked.
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