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.
Some secrets are best left buried.
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.
From New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Autumnal, Whalefall, The Shape of Water) and rising star artist Dani!
**2025 Bram Stoker Award Finalist: Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel**
"...a provactive and unsettling superhero horror story." - Publishers Weekly
"Man, this is some high-calibre, nuanced, comic-booking -- really strong storytelling." - Stephen Graham Jones (New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and the Indian Lake trilogy)
"...gritty..." - Booklist
"...horror fans will find this smart and unpredictable." - Publishers Weekly
For fans of the graphic novels Black Hammer (Jeff LeMire/Dean Ormston*), Watchmen* (Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons), The Crow (James O'Barr +Film*), Kingdom Come* (Mark Waid/Alex Ross), Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore/Brian Bolland), The Boys (Garth Ennis/Darick Roberson), The Authority (Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch); the films Darkman, Chronicle, and Unbreakable and the novels Alter Ego (Alex Segura), Secret Identity (Alex Segura),V.E. Schwab's Villains series (Vicious and Vengeful), and Jennifer Estep's Elemental Assassin series.
