The Blight spread around the world like wildfire reducing the human race to ashes In its aftermath the Earth was ripe for the picking
- & the Hinterkind stepped out from the shadows of myth & legend to reap the harvest But where did this global scourge originally come from? Now the secret of the Blight is finally revealed as our tale flashes back to a time just before the infection began & then forward to the world as it now is
- an era on the cusp of a great war between the regal Sidhe the brutal Skinlings & the vicious Vampire Nation As betrayals & bodies pile up on all sides a handful of heroes & rogues seek to harness the ultimate weapon
- a force that will either stop the bloodshed or destroy everyone that remains! Collecting issues 13-18 of the hit Vertigo series HINTERKIND VOL 3 THE HOT ZONE presents the stunning conclusion to Ian Edgington & Francesco Trifolgi’s fascinating fantasy epic Meet the Author Edginton sees part of the key to his success coming from good relationships with artists especially D& Israeli & Steve Yeowell as well as Steve Pugh & Mike Collins He is best known for his steampunkalternative history work (often with the artist D& Israeli) & is the co-creator of Scarlet Traces a sequel to their adaptation of HG Wells& The War of the Worlds With 2000 AD he has written Leviathan Stickleback & with art by Steve Yeowell The Red Seas as well as one-off serials such as American Gothic (2005) With D& Israeli he has created a number of new series including Stickleback a tale of a strange villain in an alternative Victorian London & Gothic which he describes as " Mary Shelley&s Doc Savage" With Simon Davis he recently worked on a survival horror series Stone Island & he has also produced a comic version of the computer game Hellgate London with Steve Pugh He is currently working on a dinosaurs & cowboys story called Sixgun Logic Also as part of Top Cow&s Pilot Season he has written an Angelus one-shot More from this Author Hinterkind Vol 1 The Waking World Hinterkind Vol 2 Written In Blood (NOOK Comic with Zoom View) Hinterkind (2013-) 15 (NOOK Comic with Zoom View) The Evil Within Brass Sun The Wheel of Worlds Steed & Mrs Peel We&re Needed 3