Merrick: The sensational elephantman 7+8

Currently tearing it up on Kickstarter and well on its way to smashing its £5,000 target are the next 2 issues of Tom Ward and Luke Parker's fantastic (in every sense of the word) serial 'Merrick: the sensational elephantman'

The funding for these 2 issues will see a 2 issue story arc 'Monsters' published - Will Merrick survive his battle against the ancient Lovecraftian maggot deity Phu-ggogot? What revelations will be unearthed about his own past? "Monsters" is a Victorian pulp adventure joyride, and a great jumping on point for new readers.

Full details can be found here - I've backed it and hope you will too

If you've not read these great comics before then here's an introduction to the world...

Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman is a Victorian gaslamp pulp adventure comic set in 1880s' London. Based on a fictional version of the life of Joseph Merrick, it steps between historical facts and turn of the century folklore juxtaposed with the American superhero comic conventions of super powers, masks, secret identities and fantastic adventures. 

When Joseph Merrick’s pregnant mother was knocked down by an escaped elephant, the phenomenon of maternal impression caused her child to develop the toughness and strength of an elephant. 

Spurned by genteel society because of his thick grey skin and mis-shapen body he acquired the stage name of Merrick: The Sensational Elephantman and travelled Europe as part of a sideshow, until his manager betrayed him and left him for dead. 

After dragging himself back to London on a quest for revenge, Merrick now finds himself embroiled with Dr Frederick Treves, one of the country’s greatest surgeons.