Gus Moreno and Jakub Rebelka team up for ‘When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee’ at BOOM! Studios

October 24, 2024

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BOOM! Studios have announced details of WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE, a “gritty police procedural with the iconography of religious horror” from writer Gus Moreno and artist Jakub Rebelka, on sale this coming January.

Here’s the official blurb:

Father Barrera is a disgraced priest, haunted by his part in the tragic death of an innocent child. As penance, he is exiled to the remote South American town of Puerto Cristina to apprentice under the enigmatic Father Stygian, the preeminent, if not controversial, exorcist. It is a joyless assignment.

Exorcists are normally trained in the Vatican, but Stygian has his own way of handling demons…methods that predate even the Church. And unfortunately for Barrera, Stygian’s last apprentice committed suicide not too long ago.

As Barrrera seeks to unlock the mysteries of Stygian’s strange practices, he finds himself amidst an island rife with the forces of evil…

What do these constant streams of possessions mean? And how are they connected to a comatose hospital patient, one who’s been in that condition for half a century without aging a single day…

Speaking about the series, Moreno said “On an island at the edge of the world, where exorcists are also detectives, demonic possession is only half the story. When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee combines the gritty police procedural with the iconography of religious horror, where nothing is what it seems, and what you think you know may end up putting your soul in peril.”

Featuring main cover art by series artist Jakub Rebelka, and variant covers by acclaimed illustrators Jacob Phillips, InHyuk Lee, and Jae Lee & June Chung, WHEN I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE # 1 will be available in comic shops January 1, 2024.

You can feast your eyes on some unlettered promo art below:

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