The Damned | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Oni Press |
Genre | |
Publication date | October 2006 |
No. of issues | The Damned: Three Days Dead #0–5 The Damned: Prodigal Sons #1–3 The Damned #1–10 |
Main character(s) | Eddie Tamblyn Morgan Tamblyn |
Creative team | |
Created by | Cullen Bunn Brian Hurtt |
Written by | Cullen Bunn Brian Hurtt |
Artist(s) | Brian Hurtt |
Letterer(s) | Brian Hurtt Crank! |
Colorist(s) | Bill Crabtree |
Editor(s) | Randal Jarrell Charlie Chu Desiree Wilson |
Collected editions | |
Volume 1: Three Days Dead (black and white) | ISBN 9781932664638 |
Volume 1: Three Days Dead (color) | ISBN 9781620103852 |
Volume 2: Ill-Gotten | ISBN 9781620104859 |
Volume 3: Prodigal Sons | ISBN 9781620105733 |
The Damned is a horror-noir American comic book created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, and published by Oni Press.
The Damned is set in prohibition era in a city where demonic crime families vie for human souls. The narrator, Eddie Tamblyn, is a man cursed to return from the dead—whoever touches Eddie while he's dead, assumes his fatal wounds and Eddie's resurrected. Because of his unique abilities, Eddie often finds himself being used by the crime families for their own ends.
The Aligheri and Roarke crime families are coming to a "mutually beneficial" agreement set to put an end to their territorial squabbles, but the demon sent to broker the truce has gone missing. Eddie agrees to find the missing broker for Alphonse Aligheri in exchange for wiping his debts.
Pauly Bones, an old double dealer from Eddie's past, seeks refuge at the Gehenna Room now that Eddie's got a "no demons allowed" policy. The demons want something from Pauly, something that might just be enough to trade for a few souls.
The first miniseries, Three Days Dead, ran from October 2006 to February 2007. There was also a six-page issue #0 published in October 2006. A second miniseries followed in 2008, the three-issue Prodigal Sons. [1]
In 2017, The Damned was relaunched as an ongoing series. The original five-issue miniseries was adapted to color and published as a new trade paperback in March. [2] The Damned #1 followed in May with a new arc, Ill-Gotten, designed to continue the story for returning readers while introducing the world and characters to new readers.
The color version of the Prodigal Sons arc appeared in The Damned #6–8 with minor alterations to better fit in with the mythology of the ongoing series. [3] The planned three-issue Daughter's Danse arc only released the first issue and The Damned has been in hiatus since then. Bunn mentioned in a 2023 "Ask Me Anything" post that he has plans for the series to continue, but nothing in the near future. [4]
Story Arc | Issue | Release Date | Writer | Artist | Colorist |
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Three Days Earlier... | #0 | October, 2006 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | — |
Three Days Dead | #1 | October, 2006 | Bill Crabtree (2017 collection) | ||
#2 | November, 2006 | ||||
#3 | December, 2006 | ||||
#4 | January, 2007 | ||||
#5 | February, 2007 | ||||
Prodigal Sons | #1 | April, 2008 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | N/A |
#2 | May, 2008 | ||||
#3 | August, 2008 | ||||
Ongoing series (2017) | |||||
Ill-Gotten | #1 | May 3, 2017 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | Bill Crabtree |
#2 | June 14, 2017 | ||||
#3 | July 12, 2017 | ||||
#4 | September 13, 2017 | ||||
#5 | October 11, 2017 | ||||
Prodigal Sons | #6 [5] | December 13, 2017 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | Bill Crabtree |
#7 | January 10, 2018 | ||||
#8 | February 7, 2018 | ||||
Bad Ol’ Days | #9 [6] | April 18, 2018 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | Bill Crabtree |
Daughter's Danse | #10 | June 13, 2018 | Cullen Bunn | Brian Hurtt | Bill Crabtree |
The first miniseries has been collected into a trade paperback twice, once in black and white in 2007, then later in color in 2017.
Volume | Title | Release Date | Material collected | ISBN |
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1 | Three Days Dead | May, 2007 | The Damned: Three Days Dead #1–5 The Damned: Three Days Earlier... * #0 | 9781932664638 |
March 8, 2017 | The Damned: Three Days Dead #1–5 | 9781620103852 | ||
2 | Ill-Gotten | April 18, 2018 | The Damned #1–5 | 9781620104859 |
3 | Prodigal Sons | February 13, 2019 | The Damned #6–9 | 9781620105733 |
The original black and white versions of Three Days Dead and Prodigal Sons have been released in French by Akileos:
On July 27, 2007, DreamWorks Pictures, Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald acquired the film rights to this comic book title as a collaboration with Oni Press's film production arm Closed by Monday Entertainment along with a film adaptation of Courtney Crumrin. [7] On April 13, 2008, David DiGilio was hired to write the screenplay for DreamWorks, Closed on Mondays Entertainment, and Parkes + MacDonald Entertainment. [8]
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