Sanctum

by Xavier Dorison, Christophe Bec (Illustrator)

Overview

After receiving a distress call from another submarine off the Syrian coast, the crew of the USS Nebraska search a series of massive caverns, where they discover a 70-year-old shipwrecked Soviet sub, whose crew died under mysterious circumstances. While investigating this enigma, the Nebraska’s away team discover a massive underground sanctum dedicated to Môt, the ancient Ugarit god of death. Now, the crew must find a way to escape the death god’s prison without freeing him to wreak destruction upon the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594658105
Publisher:	Humanoids, Inc.
Publication date:	03/08/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.20(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Xavier Dorison is a rising stars in French comics. He is the author of several successful series including “Prophet,” “The Third Testament” and “Sanctum,” as well as a noted screenwriter and script doctor.

Christophe Bec is a writer and artist. Born in France, he spent the first few months of his life in Morocco due to his parent's work. Attracted to comics from an early age, he began his career by producing fanzines, one of which earned a Best Fanzine nomination at Angoulême Comics Festival. He joined the Comics School of Angoulême the next year. Known for the art behind "Absolute Zero", "Sanctum" and "Prometheus", he is also the author of "Pandemonium", "Shadows of Salamanca" and "Carthago". "Sanctum" earned him nominations for Best Comic Album at both the Cognac Detective Film Festival and the Jules Vernes Film Festival. He also won the Uderzo Prize for his series "Lent".

Editorial Reviews

"This is a great blend of Alien like science fiction with Lovecraft style horror." - GeekedOutNation.com "...the build-up in this story was intense and powerful, and well worth the ride....Sanctum reads more like a traditional science fiction novel than a graphic novel. I hope I can read more graphic novels by this talented creative team" - Comics Bulletin "This book keeps you guessing right up until the end, which I honestly didn’t see coming." - Cosmic Book News "Recommend it to any one who likes occult mysteries and big, bad demons that go bump in the night." - FloridaGeekScene.com

From the Publisher

Like the movie Alien, this graphic novel, originally published in France, pits a crew against a marauding monster, but here, the setting is in the ocean depths. In 2029, the crew of a submarine, the U.S.S. Nebraska, discovers the wreck of a Cold War-era Russian sub that in turn leads to the sanctum of the title. Constructed by the ancient Ugarit civilization, it lies within massive undersea caverns. Dorison creates suspense through the crew's efforts to raise their own damaged sub to the surface. But though he tries to generate drama through character conflicts, none of his cast has a vivid personality. Nor do the individuals look sufficiently distinct from each other in Bec's naturalistic drawing style. While exquisitely drawn and colored, the artwork is too static for what should be a thriller. Dorison reveals that the sanctum was built to imprison Mot, the Ugarit god of death, an inferior copy of the monsters done better by H.P. Lovecraft. All told, this work is an adequate but derivative thriller. (Mar.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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