"VIOLENT MESSIAHS IS A BOOK THAT CAN TAKE YOU OFF GUARD. WHEN YOU FIRST START READING, YOU ARE VERY SURE OF THE DIRECTION OF THE BOOK. YOU KNOW WHO THE GOOD GUYS ARE, AND WHO THE BAD GUYS ARE……THEN YOU KEEP READING." - Comic Shop News

VIOLENT MESSIAHS

A mysterious door hides something old and alive. A hyper-violent vigilante prowls the streets. A serial killer leaves only a poem for a clue. A female cop tries desperately to understand how it all connects. Welcome to Rankor Island, a carnival of social ills. Lt. Cheri Major has been on the trail of the vigilante dubbed "Citizen Pain" for months, but has never seen more than his shadow. When a carefully calculated trap she has laid goes wrong, she comes face to face with the man they call PAIN. The vision is terrifying. He is inhuman in girth and hides his face behind a haphazardly stitched black mask. For the first time in her career Cheri loses control, and PAIN slips away. Across town, at that same moment, the enigmatic serial killer, "Family Man" strikes. Cheri and her new partner, Earnest Houston, begin to unearth clues of a strange connection between PAIN and the Family Man, clues that PAIN himself seems to be leaving for her. The closer to the truth she gets, the more unreal her world becomes. The trail eventually leads to an historical landmark on Rankor Island, the gothic North End Mansion. In the dark halls of this ancient house another story has been unfolding. A story of the genetic scientist Jubal (whom PAIN calls "father") and the three old men who look frail but are known ominously as THE KEEPERS. Cheri and Houston make it through the maze of North End Mansion to its black heart, a room where all the players of our puzzle meet, truths of global consequence are revealed and this nightmare can be played out to it's violent conclusion. Violent Messiahs is a loose and fast urban action retelling of "Frankenstein" that can only be described as a genre bending, theological, sci-fi love story about criminal politics, the nature of violence and man's search for individuality.