George R.R. Martin’sWild Cards shared - world universe seriescontinues witha fresh graphic novelarriving October 3 . George R.R. Martin Presents : Wild Cards : Sins of the Father is written by Melinda M. Snodgrass and illustrated by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett , and io9 has a preview to divvy up today .
Here ’s what Sins of the Father is about , include someWild Cards backstoryif you ’re unfamiliar with what it ’s all about :
A cop on the trail of a outre murder uncovers a hide conspiracy — and shocking secrets about his late male parent — in this original graphic novel arrange in George R. R. Martin ’s partake in - Earth universe , Wild Cards .
Image: © 2023 by the Wild Cards Trust. Published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
In 1946 , an exotic virus ravage the human race , its results as random as a mitt of circuit board . From that fateful moment to the present day , those infect either draw the inglorious tabby and die , draw an ace and receive superpower , or take out the joker and are bizarrely mutated .
Today , Aces , Jokers , and clean humans live in proportional peace . Francis “ Franny ” Black is an clean human copper , trying to police a macrocosm fill with mass with the over-the-top powers that he lack . fresh — and some would say too short — promoted to detective , he has been working out of Wild Card Central , the precinct in Jokertown where the mass of the computer virus victims come in 1946 . Franny ’s Padre was one of the heroes of the precinct , kill in the line of responsibility , and Franny is finding it voiceless to fulfil his dead begetter ’s shoes . That is , until he ’s give a particularly pernicious display case and starts uncovering long - buried secret that his forefather might have died to protect .
Illustrated in a gorgeous , cinematic style by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett , this singular graphic novel is a visual feast sure to revel .
Scroll through for a expression at the full cover and four pages from the vivid novel . you may grade a pre - written matter of George R.R. Martin Presents : Wild carte du jour : Sins of the Fatherhere , ahead of its discharge October 3 .
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