The Black Graphic Novel

The Black Graphic Novel by Robert Menegus in 96 pages, 7.25x11 inches, black and white. Mature themes.

When sixteen-year-old Éinar Dahl begins seeing his coastal Swedish hometown rotting beneath waves of living shadow, he’s certain it’s grief-born madness. But when his nightmares spill into reality and a local doctor dies under impossible circumstances, Éinar is forced to confront a truth whispered only in ancient lore: The Black, a malignant entity that devours the living and corrupts the soul, has returned. With the town turning against him and a mysterious apothecary revealing visions of a centuries-old war between Vikings and an army of darkness, Éinar discovers he may be the only one capable of stopping what he once believed was pure myth.

Cast into a labyrinth of impossible worlds, Éinar must navigate haunted mansions, collapsing dreamscapes, and catacombs steeped in blood to find five arcane keys that can banish The Black forever. But each trial forces him deeper into the trauma he’s spent his life refusing to face. As corruption spreads through the people he loves most, Éinar races against an encroaching apocalypse, one that mirrors his nightmares, and confronts the grief at the root of The Black’s power. Only by embracing the pain that’s defined him can he hope to save his town… or watch it drown beneath the darkness he failed to outrun.

Story by Robert Menegus.
Art by Mike Mora.
Letters by Micah Myers.