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Check out the Seattle Geekly podcast #14 (beginning at 26:36) for pithy coverage of the Devil’s Own comic book series. For even more detail, peruse the Show Notes for that episode.

And why not have a look at the latest review, courtesy of Decapitated Dan.

Yes, traveler, change has come to Night Rail Press. We’re still your terminus for dark comics, and our signature project remains The Devil’s Own, but you’ll find that Pedro Felsenstein’s involvement has been confined to the pages of our little books about his life and times. He had his tolerable qualities as a mascot, but no one can tend to the needs of this train like yours truly, the Conductor.

So join us as we ride the rails through the densely forested first arc of this increasingly macabre tale. There are miles to go before we sleep, I assure you. If the dingbats (writer Pete Mesling and artist Brian Beardsley) have done their job ably, the same will be true for you. Difficult to sleep when you’re trembling with fright. Heh, heh!

For those of you just stepping onto the platform, a word about The Devil’s Own. It’s the story of a witch and warlock’s failing marriage, on the one hand, but it’s also about their live-in divorce lawyer, Pedro Felsenstein, and the conspiracy he quickly finds himself embroiled in.

Issue #0 appears to reveal how Felsenstein wound up under the same roof as Dominic and Claudia Hechs, but later stories in the first arc will take on the larger question of whether Dominic and Claudia Hechs really only hired Felsenstein because he was a divorce lawyer, or because their more distant pasts are connected in a significant way.

Now, as you can see from the cover images to the left, there are two ways for you to get your eyeballs trained on the innards of issue #0 (which now includes both “The Long Divorce” and “Welp’s Tale”) and issue #1 (“Quickening Pandemonium”). If you’re the timid, hesitant type who likes to taste your water before you drink it, you might want to download the issues from My Digital Comics. The downloads are priced to entice, and if you like what you see and start losing sleep wondering what it might be like to hold a print version in your palsied paws, IndyPlanet and ComixPress will happily take orders from you (they’re submissive that way).

The more observant among you will have noticed there are two variant covers for issue #1. This is so you can choose between Brian’s colorful cover art and the suggestive line work of Matthew Dow Smith (you may know Matthew, incidentally, from his work on the Doctor Who comics and the graphic novel adaptation of F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep, among other high-profile projects). Or better yet, why not collect both!

All aboard? Good. Now, let’s see if we can get this hunk of iron screaming down the tracks, shall we? Don’t worry, your turn for screaming is just around the bend. Heh, heh, heh!

Your humble servant,

The Conductor