Finally, the acclaimed horror title which was nominated for an Eisner Award for "best new series" is collected in a stunning hardcover featuring the first 12 issues and more! From RODNEY BARNES, the breakout star comics scribe and television writer behind HBO's Winning Time, and the show-stopping artist who redefined SPAWN for a new generation, JASON SHAWN ALEXANDER. When a small-town beat cop comes home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr., he stumbles into a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality...and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead President of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution. There’s a reason they say you can’t go home again. Welcome to Killadelphia. Collects KILLADELPHIA #1-12 and chapters 1-5 of the terrifying werewolf tie-in story ELYSIUM GARDENS “Killadelphia is the stunning and fresh horror fable I’ve been craving. This one feels like a classic.” —Jordan Peele “It’s the best graphic novel I’ve ever read. Five times more graphic and eight times more novel.” —Chris Rock “Jason Shawn Alexander is one of my favorite artists working today, and writer Rodney Barnes is the perfect collaborator for this atmospheric horror story with a terrifyingly real sense of place.” —Brian K. Vaughan "Sparely written, beautifully rendered and topical, Killadelphia is a genuinely frightening horror graphic. Can’t wait to read the next issue!” —Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due "A dark, deep, seamless story that plays into multiple genres without becoming fully any one of them, the book offers a tantalizing nightmare of urban horror that feels real, rich, and mysterious. It'll infect you if you let it, and you should.” —ComicBook.com “Easily awarded the max of five stars, and I very highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys comics like Spawn, and The Walking Dead.” —Impulse Gamer “A very unique visual style. It pulls from classic art and horror imagery to give us a comic that doesn’t look like a comic but rather like the inside of a nightmare.” ―Graphic Policy “Easily awarded the max of five stars, and I very highly recommend it to everyone who enjoys comics like Spawn, and The Walking Dead.” ―Impulse Gamer “Killadelphia is the stunning and fresh horror fable I’ve been craving. This one feels like a classic.” ―Jordan Peele "A dark, deep, seamless story that plays into multiple genres without becoming fully any one of them, the book offers a tantalizing nightmare of urban horror that feels real, rich, and mysterious. It'll infect you if you let it, and you should.” ―ComicBook.com "Sparely written, beautifully rendered and topical, Killadelphia is a genuinely frightening horror graphic. Can’t wait to read the next issue!” ―Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due “Jason Shawn Alexander is one of my favorite artists working today, and writer Rodney Barnes is the perfect collaborator for this atmospheric horror story with a terrifyingly real sense of place.” ―Brian K. Vaughan Rodney Barnes is the award-winning writer/producer of HBO’s Showtime, Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Marvel’s Runaways, Starz’s American Gods, and a host of other television programs and films. He has also authored graphic novels for Lion Forge’s Quincredible and Star Wars - Lando: Double or Nothing, as well as Falcon for Marvel Comics. He is now writing Killadelphia for Image Comics. Rodney resides in Los Angeles. Luis Nuñez de Castro Torres – Luis NCT for short – grew up in Valencia, Spain, reading comics of all kinds on the Mediterranean beachfront. He made comics and fanzines in high school, eventually studying fine arts before becoming a freelance artist. He has worked as a concept designer for video games and film, but his passion will always be comic books. His first long-form comic book project was Sleepers , a post-apocalyptic sci-fi tale about a world ruined by giant robots, an open homage to his love of the genre. This gave way to his second long-form solo project, WAHCOMMO , and his love for high-fantasy. His most prominent work in the United States has been as a colorist with artist Jason Shawn Alexander on the Image Comics series Empty Zone , the Vertigo series Frostbite , and a three-issue run on Spawn . He is currently coloring the critically acclaimed Image Comics series Killadelphia . He just published the sequel to WAHCOMMO , Kaya .