Greg Ruth, acclaimed artist on Freaks of the Heartland and several issues of Dark Horse's Conan series, brings you a tale worthy of David Lynch and Stanley Kubrick's feverish dream sequences. Collected for the first time and featuring Ruth's unique art style (crafted here using a ball point pen!), Sudden Gravity will haunt readers long after the last panel is read.
Built on a site of great and forgotten power, the mammoth Bentham International Hospital was to be the very definition of modern medical science at its best. But over the years, the specters and dark secrets of the Hospital began to bore away at its heart, leaving its foundations cracked and vulnerable to the oldest of horrors and nightmares. When a prominent Commissioner of the City's Housing and Urban Development Department is brought in for evaluation after murdering her family, the haunted secrets of the hospital begin to unravel, leaving no one untouched.
"I originally conceived the book to be the beginning of an long line of stories surrounding the birth, life and crumbling death of the hospital itself all moved along backwards and forwards as a melodrama," commented writer/artist Greg Ruth. "There are layers upon layers of hidden keys and meanings and messages stowed away in the story inspired by Geomancy, Perceptual theory, Chaos Magic and Masonic-like conspiracy material. Sudden Gravity itself is a really prologue to this total world parallel to our own that can be navigated by way of a classic murder mystery. I wanted to pit hard science against magical realism and let them both draw out each other's fallacies and strengths. You'll come in with questions, find answers, and you'll leave with new ones. It's escapism to make you think."
Sudden Gravity features story and art by Greg Ruth. It arrives on sale July 12 with a retail price of $10.95.