Vault Comics will publish Excommunicated, a new supernatural horror/”buddy cop” series written by novelist Jeremy Robinson and illustrated by Tiago Palma, beginning in May.
They’ll be joined by colorist Manuel J. Rodriguez, letterer Jim Campbell and designer Tim Daniel on the series, which features an excommunicated nun and an exorcised demon thrown out of hell teaming up to save the world.
“My whole life I’ve been what people call ‘steeped in the Bible.’ I’ve incorporated this knowledge into my novels the way I do other religions and mythologies, but I really wanted to use my recent discoveries regarding original translations of the Biblical texts that fundamentally change the game—specifically concerning the satan (yes, lowercase) and the strange beings known as Elohim,” Robinson said. “Me being me, I wrote a story that is sinister, action-packed, and funny, but made even cooler by a supernatural backdrop far more interesting than what we’ve all been taught in Sunday school and by Hollywood.”
The series follows Sister Josephine, a nun, and Edimmu, a demon, who find themselves both excommunicated — she from the church, he from hell — following a botched exorcism. Thrown together by circumstance, the unlikely pair must work together to uncover a sinister plot that threatens both their lives and the world.
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Robinson has published nearly 100 novels in 14 languages, including the Good Boys trilogy, Point Nemo and Artifact. He’s also the writer of Nectar, which is due out soon from Vault. Excommunicated is published under Robinson’s Breakneck Comics imprint at Vault, which he uses to publish three graphic novels per year.
Issue #1 features variant covers by Palma, Joshua Hixson, Ito and Robinson himself, among others.
The first issue arrives May 6.