Iron Circus Comics has a new trade paperback for fans on June 11. The Last Delivery by writer/artist Evan Dahm is a dark fantasy/horror graphic novel that has been described as “surprising, visually delightful, Henson-esque horror story you’ve come to expect.”
Read details from the publisher here:
Our story opens on the uniformed delivery boy, our devoted hero, small and vulnerable against a stark and imposing backdrop. This is a strange and forbidding world, but he has work to do: a large package to deliver to a sprawling multi-winged mansion reminiscent of Shirley Jackson’s Hill House if it stood in another dimension. He says, “This must be the place” to himself as he struggles to hoist the box onto his back and get inside: a hilariously mundane start to the ridiculous and life-threatening challenges he’ll face as he proceeds into the bowels of the nightmare house.
THE LAST DELIVERY is reminiscent of classic children’s fantasy like Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz (though it is not for kids!) in the sense that you follow the protagonist through a bizarre new world where anything can happen and often does. And the guiding light through it all is Evan’s keen insight into the human condition, what it means to work and be alive in a collapsing society, and how the people who survive it manage to eke out some semblance of an existence next to those who get swallowed up by it. While reading along, there are moments when you realize you can’t predict how it will end, and when it does end, it’s one of the most haunting and poignant scenes you’re likely to encounter in a graphic novel this year. As Gretchen Felker-Martin, author of Manhunt, put it, “One of our greatest living fantasy cartoonists conjures up a nightmarish mixture of Carroll and Peake, Poe and Calvino, a Kafkaesque vision of futility, stupidity, and cruelty bubbling in a crucible of endless, meaningless wealth. Astonishing.”
Ahead of the release of The Last Delivery graphic novel, check out a few pages below!
