THE BODY TRADE

It’s never too late for a bad person to do the right thing, even if it destroys you in the process…

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Kim Krilic is a divorced ex-con who’s trying to atone. However, his short temper tends to get the best of him. When he returns to Florida to bury his estranged son. He’s sickened to find an empty grave. His son’s remains were sold into “The Body Trade”. Armed with righteous fury, Kim sets out to reclaim his child’s corpse. But one act of vengeance causes everything to spiral out of control.

The Body Trade is an unrelenting revenge story set against the backdrop of America’s aftermarket for dead bodies. Critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson (Blow Away, Into The Unbeing) and star artist Jok (In Hell We Fight) team up for this neo-noir crime thriller rife with bloodshed and brutality, in the tradition of Blue Ruin and Hell or High Water!

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“The Body Trade #1 was a powerful start to something that goes right for the throat in exploring life, death, and everything in between… -Chris Coplan”

Capes & Tights

“Thompson takes a story dealing with loss, redemption and the lengths one will go for the ones we love and packages it with outstanding artwork in comic form -Justin Soderberg”

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Zac Thompson

Author

Zac Thompson is a writer from a tiny island in Canada. Zac often writes about nature, the horrors of the human condition, and everything in between, to be discovered in this upcoming series from Mad Cave Studios, Nature’s Labyrinth. You may know Zac from his other works like Ka-Zar Lord of the Savage Land at Marvel, I Breathed A Body and Lonely Receiver at Aftershock, or The Dregs at Black Mask Studios.
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Jok

Illustrator

Jok was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in the seventies and has been working as a comic book artist since 1993. His work’s been published in the USA (Image, Massive, Heavy Metal, Scholastic, Capstone, Bad Bug, Alien Books, Mad Cave and Deadsky), England (Markosia, David Lloyd´s Aces Weekly), Italy, France (Mosquito, Delcourt), Spain, Germany (Splitter), Denmark, Cyprus, Canada, China, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. He runs a studio along with his comrades in arms since 2001, splitting his time amongst several endeavors, including work for hire projects, creator owned books, attending conventions all over the world and not missing a match of his weekly soccer with friends and colleagues.
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Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou

Letterer

Hassan is a British/Algerian comics letterer, and has worked on titles like Vault Comics’ The Blue Flame, Black Stars Above, The RUSH, Engineward, No One’s Rose, and TEST, as well as X-O Manowar, First Knife, and Undone By Blood. He's also the editor of the Eisner-winning PanelxPanel, and voice behind Strip Panel Naked.
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