Publication date October 2006 Letterer(s) Brian Hurtt | Artist(s) Brian Hurtt | |
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Number of issues Three Days Dead #0–5Prodigal Sons #1–3 Main character(s) EddieAlphonse Aligheri Writer(s) Cullen BunnBrian Hurtt Similar The Sixth Gun, Queen & Country, Fearless Defenders, Harrow County | ||
The Damned is a horror-noir American comic book created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, and published by Oni Press.
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Publication history
The first miniseries, Three Days Dead, ran from October 2006 to February 2007. There was also a six-page issue #0 published in October 2006.
A second miniseries followed in 2008, the three-issue Prodigal Sons.
The original five-issue miniseries was later republished in color in 2017, just prior to the launch of The Damned as an ongoing series.
Plot synopsis
The story revolves around a cursed man named Eddie and his demonic curse—to return from the dead over and over again. The curse is always at the expense of whomever happens to touch Eddie while he's dead. The injuries that killed Eddie are transferred, and Eddie is resurrected while the person that touched him dies. The Damned is set in a prohibition era and involves demonic gang bosses and their families/gangs of demons. While there is a supernatural element to their crimes (such as trafficking souls), they are most commonly shown committing the usual crimes of prohibition-era gangsters.
Three Days Dead
The Aligheri and Roarke crime families are coming to a "mutually beneficial" agreement set to put an end to their territorial squabbles, but when a moderating demon is called in to make arrangements for the truce, someone kidnaps him. Eddie is hired by gang boss Alphonse Aligheri to find out what happened to the missing arbiter.
Collected editions
The first miniseries has been collected into a trade paperback twice, once in black and white in 2007, then later in color in 2017.
Both miniseries have been released in French by Akileos:
Film
DreamWorks optioned The Damned for a film in 2008, to be written by David DiGilio.
TV series
It was announced in August 2011 that Showtime had bought the rights to adapt the comic book into a television series, with David Hayter being brought in to write it.