Hellbound

Crime/humor novelist Victor Gischler has written a number of licensed titles (Buffy: Spike-- A Dark Place, Conan: Phantoms of the Black Coast) as well as some original stories (Clown Fatale, Kiss Me, Satan) for Dark Horse. Hellbound will be his third. Featuring art by Riccardo Burchielli who illustrated the DC/Vertigo titlesDMZ and Northlanders.

When two disgraced FBI agents are sent to investigate gruesome murders along Route 5, they discover there's a lot more going on than a simple string of bodies left by some garden-variety serial killer. Horrific nightmares are tormenting the small towns along the highway, and only one man in junkyard armor keeps them at bay.

Victor Gischler is an American author of crime fiction sometimes with a humorous angle. Gischler's debut novelGun Monkeys was nominated for the Edgar Award, and his novel Shotgun Opera was an Anthony Award finalist. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and Japanese. He earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Southern Mississippi. His fifth novel Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse was published in 2008 by the Touchstone/Fireside imprint of Simon & Schuster. He has also writes American comic books likeThe Punisher: Frank Castle, Wolverine and Deadpool for Marvel Comics as well asBuffy the Vampire Slayer for Dark Horse. The author lives in Austin, TX