Let's Read Demonic noir in the prohibition era. LR: The Damned

[Brother None]

Recommended to me by the same person who recommended Fear Agent, so you know it's going to be good, it's The Damned, a crime-noir story set in the prohibition era, with the twist of adding demonic horror elements, demonic broods/gangs and cursed humans. It consists of two arcs, Three Days Dead published 2006-2007 and the Prodigal Sons published 2008. I'm going to be fair and forewarn here, there's no real conclusion, it just cuts off. Not sure why it was discontinued or what the chances are of it getting picked back up. I hope it is, because it is an awesomely-executed setting and interesting storyline.

Let's start with issue 0, the prequel to the first arc, and the first two issues (I'll try to space this one out more than my last LR since that one broke for a lot of people when I posted too many issues per page)...

 

[Brother None]

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[Brother None]

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[Luzur]

interesting.

do continue.

 

[SerratedBiz]

Looking good so far, moar.

 

[Undead Phoenix]

We demand sacrifice. More!

 

[Major_Blackhart]

This is awesome
MOAR!

 

[pajak713]

Would be fantastic if It was some kind of rogue-like investigation/private eye/exorcist game. Anyway - the art style is pretty good, and I really like the design of demons. Keep at it, I will gladly see the rest.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

You, Brother None of NMA, has come to save me! And I, Stereotypical Villain of fast diminishing patience, wants moooooooar.

 

[Brother None]

Would be fantastic if It was some kind of rogue-like investigation/private eye/exorcist game.

Hah, you better believe a video game in this setting would kick ass. The film and TV series rights have been optioned, by DreamWorks and Showtime, but it'd make one hell of a setting for a video game. Any kind of, really, from an investigation rogue-like to an open-world type where you join one of the three demonic familes to a resource management/strategy type running one of the families, etc.

Would be cool, maybe one day. Would play the hell out of.

 

[evdk]

Hey, Brother None, are you going to storytime Prodigal Sons too?

 

[Brother None]

Yip. Do the Three Days Dead run and then Prodigal Sons, in this thread. Prodigal Sons is only three issues, sadly.

 

[evdk]

Prodigal Sons is mainly huge setup with zero pay off, sadly. I was pretty pissed at issue no. 3, I mean I could tolerate that in an ongoing, but as it stands it is pretty maddening. The solicitations didn't help either.

 

[Esquilax]

Brother None, this is great stuff, but if I might make a suggestion - can you wrap each update in spoiler text so that it's a bit easier to scroll through? Makes things a lot less messy that way.

 

[Brother None]

I personally actually dislike spoiler tags in LPs/LRs, heh. But fiiiine, since it's the Hot New Thing.

 

[Azira]

Thread watched, will read with interest.

 

[Brother None]

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[Brother None]

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[Sander]

MOAR, FASTER.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

MOAR!

 

[Azira]

There are some plot stuff that I hope gets explained. Something that sticks out to me as just plain old dumb:

I understand you need a ledger of some kind to keep track of all the soul dealing, yes. But why bring that a place where it might get nicked?
Why did the Verlochin not take the page Eddie had, to keep it for themselves, as leverage against whatever deamon whose name was written there?
Why did whomever (yes, I know we know who did it) stole the book and tortured Lazlo drop a page and leave it for Eddie to find? This thing is Power, not something you simply drop or discard..

Seems to me we are owed some explanations, so get with the updates.

 

[Brother None]

I'm afraid a lot of questions will stay lingering. Some of this stuff makes more sense, but the fact is we're only two series into waht's clearly a longer arc, and some stuff is simply unresolved. Questions unanswered. I'm not sure I know the answers to your questions, for instance.

 

[St. Toxic]

Interesting stuff BN, will add to phone.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

So, when did it come out then? And it just died?
Sucks for fans of the series.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

Fun read so far, shame it didn't last.