John Carpenter's Asylum: Vol. 2

Beckett and Duran are drawn to a small town in the midwest where children have been kidnapped and murdered for decades in a pattern suggesting that a bigger evil might be at work. Father Leone, King Leo and The Soul Collector all become parts of a bigger plan as Beckett finds his true self and Duran is forced to take a stand as mankind's fate intertwines with that of one small child.

Author: Sandy King,Trent Olsen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Storm King Comics
Published: 09/28/2016
Series: John Carpenter's Asylum #2
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.2lbs
Size: 10.20h x 6.60w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780997059908
Audience: Young Adult

About The Author
King, Sandy: - Writer, film and television producer, and CEO of Storm King Productions.

With a background in art, photography and animation, Sandy King's filmmaking career has included working with John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Walter Hill, John Hughes and John Carpenter.

She has produced films ranging from public service announcements on Hunger Awareness, to a documentary on astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe for CNN, and major theatrical hits like They Live and John Carpenter's Vampires. More recently, she directed and produced the John Carpenter Live tour film and produced horror/thriller, The Manor, for Blumhouse and Amazon.

King is the first woman founder of a comic publishing house. Through Storm King Comics, she has created and written the award-winning Asylum series, the multiple award-winning Tales for a HalloweeNight anthologies the monthly, Tales of Science Fiction, and the graphic novel line, Night Terrors. In December 2019, King launched the new comics line, Storm Kids, offering comics for ages 4 to 18 years old, and in 2021, received an Eisner nomination for the all ages title, Stanley's Ghost. Dark & Twisted is the newest line from Storm King Comics, focusing on horror stories with no supernatural of Sci-fi elements.Olsen, Trent: - "A self-professed writer of wrongs, Trent Olsen found himself drawn to screenwriting from a young age. Although a departure from screenwriting, Trent excitedly dove headlong into another life passion - comic books! Influenced and inspired by his thirty thousand book collection, Trent happily tackled the world of John Carpenter's Asylum. With another book and two features in development, you can expect to see more of his work in the near future."Manco, Leonardo: - Leonardo Manco is an Argentine comic book artist, who has a somewhat unique dark and gritty style. Perhaps best known for his work on Vertigo's Hellblazer title, he first started out in mainstream comics back in the mid 1990's, doing most of his work for Marvel and DC. His run on Hellblazer was a long one, and many consider him to have been 'THE HELLBLAZER ARTIST'. He practically illustrated all of Mike Carey's long run, and stuck with the book through Denise Mina's and Andy Diggle's runs. Books that he has worked on include: Marvel: Doom, Deathlok, War Machine, Otherworld War, Druid, Werewolf by Night, Hellstrom, etc. DC/Vertigo: Hellblazer, Batman Gotham Knights, All Star Western, etc.