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Some secrets are best left buried.
Watchmen meets Unbreakable in the darkly disturbing supernatural tale, ATHANASIA, where the heroic dead bleed power into the ground … only to be unearthed by a down-on-her-luck young woman to unforeseeable consequences.
From New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Autumnal, Angel Down, Whalefall, The Shape of Water) and rising star artist Dani!
Forrest Molson is going nowhere. One year out of high school — and one year into sobriety — she’s working with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the final resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City’s resident superheroes. At her lowest point, Forrest discovers Athanasia’s darkest secret. At night, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the spectacular substances that ooze from rotting superheroes. This ooze becomes Forrest’s new drug — and she’s intent on using her unpredictable new powers to be judge, jury, and executioner of Venture City’s evil citizens. But as she loses her mind to her new addiction, she inches closer to becoming the most evil of all.
ATHANASIA is a superhero story seen through the darkest lens.
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Awards and Praise
“Kraus brings the rigor of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet.” – The New York Times
The Creative Team
Daniel Kraus
Writer
DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling author. He co-authored THE LIVING DEAD with legendary filmmaker George a. Romero. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored THE SHAPE OF WATER, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored TROLLHUNTERS, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s THE DEATH AND LIFE OF ZEBULON FINCH was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards (for both ROTTERS and SCOWLER) and has been a Library Guild selection, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bram Stoker finalist, and more.
Kraus’s work has been translated into over 25 languages. He lives with his wife in Chicago. Visit him at danielkraus.com.
Dani
Artist
Dani was born in Athens, Greece in 1992 and studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She began to produce a self-published series called Tales from the Strips that won the Reader’s Choice Award at the Greek Comics Awards in 2015, before working at 2000 AD contributing to Judge Anderson, Black Beth and other series. Soon she was on the radar of the US industry and broke in with work from IDW on Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency.
More recently she has worked with DC/VERTIGO on Sandman : The Dreaming, Hill House Comics : The Low Low Woods and on the IMAGE COMICS creator owned series Coffin Bound. Dani has continued her collaborations at DC comics with Sensational Wonder Woman and as the regular artist on Arkham City: The Order of the World.
Brad Simpson
Colorist
Brad Simpson’s distinct color art has appeared in numerous titles including The Amazing Spiderman, Bloodborne, and Stray Dogs. He resides in Ashland Oregon with his wife Sarah, and sons, Clive and Maddox. When he is not on deadline, he enjoys anticipating future deadlines.