New York Occasions Bestselling creator Daniel Kraus is giving comedian followers a brand new tackle the superhero style this winter with Athanasia from Vault Comics. Kraus is joined by fan-favorite artist Dani, colorist Brad Simpson, letterer Jim Campbell, and Tim Daniel dealing with design.
Watchmen meets Unbreakable within the darkly disturbing supernatural story the place the heroic useless bleed energy into the bottom … solely to be unearthed by a down-on-her-luck younger lady to unexpected penalties. Some secrets and techniques are finest left buried.
From Vault:
Prepare for essentially the most disturbing superhero story ever advised. Forrest Molson goes nowhere. One 12 months out of highschool—and one 12 months into sobriety—she’s working together with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the ultimate resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Enterprise Metropolis’s resident superheroes. At her lowest level, Forrest discovers Athanasia’s darkest secret. At night time, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the ooze of rotting superheroes. This ooze turns into Forrest’s new drug—and he or she’s intent on utilizing the unpredictable powers it bestows to be decide, jury, and executioner of Enterprise Metropolis’s evil residents. However, as she loses her thoughts to her new habit, she inches nearer to changing into essentially the most evil of all. ATHANASIA is a superhero story seen via the darkest lens.
An early, unlettered preview might be seen beneath:
“[The idea] first got here to me after I was approached by one of many Massive Two to do a superhero comedian for a longtime character. It was an odd invite as a result of I’m not a superhero man. In any respect. I can’t stress that sufficient. My pitch was accepted, but it surely ended up falling aside for enterprise causes. That ended up being massively fortuitous as a result of it bought me considering: What would I do if left to my very own units to write down a superhero story?” mentioned Kraus.
“Inside about ten minutes of interested by it, my mind went ‘superhero cemetery,’” continued Kraus. “What would occur to the soil in case you buried superheroes shut collectively? In a short time, the reply led me down a narrative path towards habit and the lengths we go to excuse our behaviors. Even in case you haven’t skilled the previous, you certainly perceive the latter.
“This e-book is about household points, battling with habit, and struggling for inside stability,” mentioned Dani. “Additionally, Daniel and I share the identical method to the superhero style and its darker layers, so this was a challenge I immediately knew I needed to be part of.
“The relationships Daniel created on this e-book are so delicate and fragile. As an artist, showcasing this via my linework was necessary, so I took the artistic selection of renewing my regular type of heavy blocks of ink and changing it with textured pen scratches. This doubled the workload, contemplating the size of the e-book, but it surely was completely price it. Pairing that with Brad Simpson’s glorious shade selections, and we ended up with a visible I’ll at all times be happy with.”
Athanasia shall be revealed as a 256-page deluxe graphic novel and might be present in comedian shops in every single place this October 2025 from Vault Comics.
