Christine Spar is a famed investigative journalist who's made her living and reputation by reporting on the very man who's overshadowed her existence since the day she was born--the original Grendel, Hunter Rose. She's also the daughter of Stacey Palumbo Olliver--the adopted child of Rose--and the heir to Rose's legacy of complicated circumstances and tragedy. Now, Spar is faced with tragic complications all her own, when her young son Anson disappears without a trace. Using her investigative skills, Spar links Anson's disappearance--and presumed death--to a travelling kabuki troupe, fronted by the lewd and vicious Tujiro. In the face of horrible circumstances--and feeling, for the first time in her life, the need to exact a terrible revenge--Spar embraces the legacy of Grendel. As Grendel, she embarks on a journey that will take her to the brink of sanity and beyond, where vampires feast on the blood of the young, and reason and love are no substitute for bitter revenge.
"As a result of this being a vampire story combined with the fiery anger of maternal loss, this becomes a very lurid story with a very lascivious style of art," said Wagner. "I'm really happy we have the chance to go back and re-color it because, since the advent of computers, a lot has changed. When I look back at the original series, I think of it as sort-of `proto-Image.' There are all these sleek, impossibly proportioned people, and everything bursts out from all sides of the panels. It all adds up to being a precursor to what is a dominant theme now. And it's still a great story."
The first issue of Grendel: Devil's Legacy will be available March 22 for the retail price of $2.95.