The Piper A graphic novel series born in 1997 with the 3rd issue released in 2000- The Piper is a blend of genres and themes containing aspects horror, fantasy, action and drama. The main character, Jack, is a heroin addicted army veteran dealing with his drug addition and also an artificial leg caused by a land mine in Vietnam. An ill-planned robbery leads him and his friend Billy into a shootout with police resulting in Jack being shot. Jack, lay dying on the streets of Detroit, while his spirit enters the realm of The Piper... an unknown entity guiding Jack on a spiritual journey into a nightmarish realm. In this land called 'Somewhere' strange characters enter the story: a talking bat with a key, a riddle and some helpful advice, an old man carting away a macabre landscape of endless corpses, and the dead from Jack's past clawing into his new horrid reality! With a path ahead filled with obstacles of fantastic circumstances, Jack has a limited time to make it to a bridge of the Fortress, where within the walls, The Piper awaits. Will Jack find out how to escape this land of death and despair? And who or what is The Piper?
Book 1: Life and Death Book 2: Somewhere Book 3: The Fortress Book 4: Beyond the Fortress Walls (unfinished)
Created by Doug Crill, Chadwick St. John and Francis Lyon