On sale date: June 24, 2025
John Kenn Mortensen’s mordant, black-and-white inked images have taken you to The Nightmare Factory, The Bestiary, and given you Night Terrors. Now, in the internationally bestselling visual artist’s first available graphic novel, you’re going to fight like hell!
Freestyle wrestler The Sledgehammer has never met defeat, not at the hands of Painkiller, Handsome Jens, Fezzik the Giant or the Angel of Death. But over the course of 80 pages, Danish illustrator John Kenn Mortensen’s surreal black and white graphic novel will take Sledgehammer to the limits of reality, to show that he’s motivated by far more than hubris—it’s also love.
Mortensen’s first English language graphic novel delivers on the promise that his bizarre, crowd pleasing books of illustration have previously made for readers around the world. With his spidery black-ink style, reminiscent of Edward Gorey’s gothic line, we’re taken to a world in which heavy metal meets The Seventh Seal meets Faust, all by the way of AEW.
Praise
"In just 80 pages, Mortensen delivers an ethereal, thought-provoking story, questioning everything from morals to morality. And it's all wrapped up in some absolutely gorgeous illustrations." — Comics Bulletin
"An extremely individual horror story brilliantly told ... Who knows what type of children's programmes [Danish animator] Mortensen makes, but he seems to be purging something from his system via the violence and gore presented here all the way to the darkly funny ending." — Slings and Arrows
"This is a very heavy metal infused book. Tim Burton nightmare fuel. Highly recommend this if you're into horror, if you're into wrestling, if you're into awesome artwork." — Taylor Talks Comics
Specs
- Pages
- 80
- Format
- Hardback
- Color
- Black-and-white
- Dimensions
- 7.2" × 10.1"
- ISBN-13
- 9798875001123
