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Now Mike Mignola And Christopher Golden Write Joe Golem Comics

Joe Golem is a private detective made out of clay with a line of novels by creators Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola.

Now Joe Golem: Occult Detective with be a new comic book series from who else, Dark Horse, by Golden, Mignola, artist Patric Reynolds and colourist  Dave Stewart,

Paste Magazine have the PR scoop/interview.

Joe Golem takes place in a murky, morally-compromised, partially submerged New York City, and follows the titular occult detective as he explores his own mysterious origins.

For those who are curious, though: in 1925, a cataclysm occurred that caused massive upheavals around the world, including an earthquake that caused the bedrock under lower Manhattan to sink and the sea level to rise at about the same time. From around Times Square downward, the island is under 20 to 30 feet of water. But New Yorkers are resilient and stubborn people, and a lot of them never left. They just adapted. The streets are now canals. Joe is an occult detective who works those streets under the guidance of his mentor, Simon Church, an aging Victorian detective who has kept himself alive with magic and strange mechanisms. Even as Joe goes about his work, he's haunted by dreams and visions of another time, of a small village in Croatia centuries before, when a stone golem protected the locals from a band of inhuman witches…

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