Pages 1-12 of Tales of the Damned by Zero Press, 2015

I don’t know much about comics. I do know that Flotsam is the type of comic that appeals to me. The illustrations are clear black and white and the story could have held up well as prose and does not lean on the art too heavily.

The best horror movies of my time have been set in Antarctica, the Arctic, in space hulks, and on alien planets, in other words in isolation. In the Age of Sail, when Man had acquired the means to stay at sea for long periods, rather than just skim the coast and put in for the night, then the best place for a horror story became a ship on the high seas.

There are aspects of the potential madness for men at sea—particularly of the captain—that Brendan captures succinctly in Flotsam, evoking something between Moby Dick and The Curse of the Flying Dutchman.

Flotsam is the first of three dark stories told in Tales of the Damned. Check it out.

Just received word that the book will be available on comiXology next Wed, 8/19