Dark Town
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Dark Town | |
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Date | January 1995 |
Main characters | Jacques De Bergerac |
Publisher | Mad Monkey Press |
Creative team | |
Writers | Kaja Blackley |
Artists | Vanessa Chong |
Dark Town is a comic book by Canadian cartoonist Kaja Blackley. It was illustrated by Vanessa Chong and published by Mad Monkey Press.
Plot[]
A man, Jacques De Bergerac, is in a coma after being in a car accident. He finds himself in Dark Town, where the land is dominated by strange living, breathing puppets and marionettes with button eyes.
The Lords of Dark Town are trying to kill Jacques, and use his body in the real world as a vessel for an agent of Dark Town. There's only one problem: Jacques' imagination. He carries it with him always, in a red suitcase. It protects him from the horrors of Dark Town.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Jacques' wife decides to take him off life support. Jacques now only has 12 hours to live. Back in Dark Town, Jacques encounters Death, who informs him of his time limit, and tells him how to escape Dark Town. The book ends on a cliff-hanger, as Jacques is captured by a knight after wandering onto a chessboard.
Film adaptation[]
Dark Town was the basis for the film Monkeybone.[1][2][3]
Continuation[]
Dark Town was originally intended to be a miniseries. However, only the first part of the story was ever published.
Notes[]
- ^ "June 1997 News". www.awn.com. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ "TINTIN Works, But Some Graphic Novel Adaptations Go Wrong". Newsarama. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
- ^ Dark Town at IMDb
References[]
- Dark Town at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Canadian comics
- Canadian graphic novels
- 1995 graphic novels
- 1995 comics debuts
- Fantasy comics
- Horror comics
- Canadian comics adapted into films
- Fictional locations in comics
- Canadian comics stubs