Life of Agony bassist/songwriter Alan Robert teams up
with award-winning publisher IDW Publishing once again to release another
creator-owned horror comic miniseries The Shunned One in 2014. Robert’s
upcoming tale of winged woe focuses on an Angel of Death who goes rogue after
being ordered to take several innocent lives. This guilt-ridden death angel
begins to carry out his own judgment on humans, based on their actions instead
of whether their names appear on the preordained Death List. The Angel’s unsanctioned
murders instantly alter the balance within the universe and trigger a string of
unforeseen disasters that spiral out of control. Banished from Heaven by his
Creator and hunted by a pack of vengeful death angels, The Shunned One must
hide among the humans to survive while trying to reverse the damage he’s done.
The Shunned One marks the prolific creator’s fourth
horror comic series with IDW in four years; following his other critically
acclaimed series Killogy, Crawl to Me, and Wire Hangers. Visit The Shunned One
website at http://www.theshunnedone.com.
“This will
definitely be my darkest series to date,” says Robert. “The tragedies in
Newtown and Aurora really hit home for me. I can’t even begin to imagine the
pain those families are going through. I suppose The Shunned One is my
subconscious reaction to events like that—just trying to cope with all this
death and my worst fears in my own way.”
“I’m happy to once again put my life in Alan Robert’s
hands in the form of his latest series for IDW,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief
Creative Office/Editor-in-Chief. “As he’s proven with his numerous series for
us already, he’s an expert at telling dark, fantastical tales, and The Shunned
One, featuring the Angel of Death himself, is only the latest reason we’re
happy to keep walking into dark territory with him.”