Plastic and Vinyl creators Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard will return with a new five-issue miniseries from Image Comics next March. Narco is the story of a narcoleptic whose condition hits him at the worst possible time — leaving him the prime suspect in a murder.
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, Daniel and I are a little bit obsessed with quirky horror, AND we’re both huge fans of Alfred Hitchcock,” said Wagner. “We’ve been talking for years about what OUR version of his works would look like. Well, Narco is that version. It combines our weird sense of horror and humor with classics like Rear Window and Psycho.”
Image shared more details on the series:
Marcus Wesphal blacks out from the slightest surge of excitement—a narcoleptic curse that’s kept him quiet, calm, and locked away at home. But when he witnesses the girl next door’s murder and collapses, he wakes to find himself the prime suspect. Now Marcus has one chance to clear his name: outrun his failing body, reconstruct the moments he lost, and hunt a killer before he blacks out again… possibly for good.
“A Hitchcockian thriller with a whodunnit story and our usual twist of the unusual,” Hillyard said. “If any of that piqued your interest then Narco might just be the one for you. Grab a pop tart, pet your possum (not a euphemism) and see if you can figure out who the killer is.”
Here’s a look inside:
In addition to drawing the main cover, Hillyard also did a “Hitchcockian” variant for the first issue:
Look for it in stores March 4.