Warning: contains a preview of Daisy #1 including mature content!
Coming this December from Dark Horse Comics, Daisy, is a new kind of twisted terror centering on the time-honored tale of a young girl, Daisy Phillips, coming of age. Unlike other teenagers, however, Daisy’s growing pains are exacerbated by her secret lineage from biblical monsters, and that’s only the start of this new five-issue series from writer/artist Colin Lorimer (The Hunt, Burning Fields), with colors by Joana LaFuente and lettering by Jim Campbell. Promising an exciting story of supernatural horror, Screen Rant has an exclusive look at scenes from the upcoming series.
The legend of the biblical Nephilim concerns a number of scant references from the Old Testament describing a race of giants born between the union of God’s angels back in the days when they coexisted with humans. Roaming the Earth in the years before the flood of Noah, details are slim as to exactly what became of these mighty creatures. However, in Lorimer’s wonderfully detailed, and harrowingly gruesome take on the age-old myth, it appears a few descendants of the mythical giants, whom Lorimer describes as cannibalistic, remain, including an eight-foot-tall student named Daisy Phillips in the little town of Brimount.
These newest preview pages, aside from exhibiting Lorimer’s incredible ability to capture detail, terror and fantasy, establish the comic's premise, as a surprisingly tall woman with a variety of debilitating health problems makes her way to a waiting class of students outside her humble home, and instructs them to read from a seemingly forgotten book of the Bible. Recalling a time of savagery and sublimely grotesque violence reminiscent of comparable Bible-inspired comic horror The Goddamned, Lorimer intricately imagines a biblical scene of carnage, before the story in surreal fashion returns to modern day. These new images appear courtesy of Dark Horse, exclusive to Screen Rant.
Earlier press releases from Dark Horse spin the tale as a modern mystery spurred on by a mother’s long search for her missing son, which sees her winding up in Brimount after five years of fruitless investigation and encountering Daisy Phillips. Like her mysterious fallen angel ancestors, Daisy appears to exhibit supernatural abilities, including the power to resurrect the dead. Those readers expecting a cheerful story of miracles are likely in for a let-down however, as the tone is conspicuously dark, hyper-real and bleak.
What kind of adventures await in this tale of supernatural horror? Only time will tell. Daisy #1 goes on sale December 8 wherever comic books are sold.
Source: Dark Horse Comics