The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The Jungle Book, but with a graveyard instead of a jungle. And ghosts instead of the animals. And a boy, of which this is all he knows.
It's being adapted in two parts by P Craig Russell who is laying out the books, with the help of a few friends. And so we get a few advance pages to pore over. One from Scott Hampton…
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