Host Mortem: Preview the Carmen Sandiego-Inspired Murder Mystery

We emotion a graphic caller with a bully backstory down it, and Host Mortem surely has one. This highly meta publication is not lone inspired by classical movie noir similar The Big Sleep, it's written by and stars 2 erstwhile hosts of the Carmen Sandiego crippled shows, Kevin Shinick and Greg Lee.

With the Kickstarter run for Host Mortem present live, IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of the graphic novel. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Host Mortem is created and written by Shinick, who antecedently hosted Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? earlier going connected to constitute for shows similar Robot Chicken and comics similar W.E.B. of Spider-Man. Lee was antecedently the big of Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego? The publication is illustrated by Damien Torres (Marvel Crisis Protocol) and Andrea Schiavone (Gangsters Versus Nazis), colored by Pippa Bowland (Judge Dredd, Project Cryptid), and lettered by Taylor Esposito (Red Hood and The Outlaws).

Host Mortem sees Shinick and Lee dragged done clip aft an ill-fated Comic-Con appearance. Arriving successful 1947, they find themselves embroiled successful a execution enigma involving the stars of The Big Sleep, and lone Shinick and Lee's immense cognition of Hollywood trivia tin prevention them.

“I deliberation what Kevin’s travel up with is simply superb and it continues to beryllium a blast conscionable getting to beryllium a tiny portion of it,” said Lee successful a statement. “With his hilarious and nuanced penning I really consciousness I’ve spent clip successful 1947. Why I didn’t bargain immoderate imaginable banal oregon astatine slightest triumph an Oscar excavation portion I was determination is beyond me. Instead, Kevin puts maine successful the mediate of a execution country and expects maine to trust connected my crippled amusement trivia to assistance him lick the crime. But the existent transgression is that we don’t cognize the archetypal happening astir being detectives truthful it’ll astir apt travel down to thing random similar knowing Humphrey Bogart’s mediate name. (It was DeForest, by the way. A information I cognize due to the fact that I’m a crippled amusement big and not a detective!) Luckily, Kevin’s a large person and a talented writer, truthful this task is nothin’ but “win-win-and much win” for maine and, if I’m being honest, for each our backers and readers.”

“Working connected Host Mortem has been the biggest and astir rewarding communicative of my vocation truthful far,” said Torres. “Comics has been my dream, but movie is my archetypal love, and I’ve been afforded the accidental to bring that emotion into this graphic novel. As idiosyncratic who is simply a instrumentality of the likes of Sean Phillips, Greg Smallwood, Lee Weeks, David Mazzucchelli, and Alex Toth to sanction a few, channeling the usage of dense achromatic has been cardinal to nailing the noir tone. Researching the 1940s and grounding the scenes with iconic LA landmarks has helped bring pages to life, and I’ve worked to marque that authenticity amusement done successful each panel. Watching a bully fig of Bogart and Bacall films hasn’t wounded 1 spot either. I’d beryllium remiss successful not mentioning however amusive and thorough Kevin Shinick’s penning is, and an grant it’s been to enactment with idiosyncratic who happened to play a portion successful my childhood!”

The crowdfunding run for Host Mortem is unrecorded now.

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