Violent Messiahs Lamenting Pain 04-A (2002)

(W) Joshua Dysart (A) Tone Rodriguez (I) Digital Chameleon Cover A – Tone Rodriguez Cover B – Bill O’Neil FC 32pp $2.95 Bi-monthly four-issue finite series In stores the week of March 26th. Retailers: See order form for incentive program. The Concept: Rankor Island is a carnival of social ills, a tilt-a-whirl of manic violence, vigilante justice and police-corruption . . . the end harvest of civilization. Through this madness staggers Lieutenant Cheri Major and Detective Earnest Houston, two cops unwittingly on the verge of discovering the unseen forces that imprison us all. VIOLENT MESSIAHS is a sci-fi mystery, love story, about criminal politics, man’s search for individuality, and the nature of violence. This Issue: The streets of Rankor Island erupt in riots and the murderer who carves the word “scalpel” into her victims remains at large. Cheri has received a nightmarish visit from the “Family”. Her sanity shaken, she runs to the very person she’s investigating, the dominatrix Ling Kawaguchi. Cheri is taken in… and strapped down. Will Cheri find, through bondage, the inner strength needed to survive the violent culmination of Scalpel’s secret? Fetish, isolation, mystery… Violent Messiahs.