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A Midnight Opera

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Overview

For nearly a millennium, undead creatures have blended into a Europe driven by religious dogma. Ein DeLaLune is an underground Goth metal sensation on the Paris music scene, tragic and beautiful. He has the edge on other Goth music powerhouses...he's undead, a fact he's kept hidden for centuries. But his newfound fame might just bring out the very phantoms of his past from whom he has been hiding for centuries, including his powerful brother, Leroux. And if the two don't reconcile, the entire undead nation could rise up from the depths of modern society to lay waste to mankind. Tokyopop

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Bio of Hans Steinbach

Hans Steinbach is a young German artist who has no formal training but whose elegant style has been formed through years traveling around the world with his family. Hans has lived in Syria, Lebanon, Germany, France, Canada, Turkey and the United States. Hans is also extremely influenced by heavy metal music.

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Imprint

TOKYOPOP

Filesize

42.56 MB

Number of Pages

192

eBook ISBN

9781598162653

Excerpt from: A Midnight Opera by Hans Steinbach

I have always been a fan of the goth aesthetic, and not just black lipstick and fishnets (though that stuff does help), but the richly emotional, dark-themed, highly Romantic transcendence of mind and mortal flesh that makes up the tapestry of Gothic fiction. And finally here, teamed up with artist Hans "Hanzo" Steinbach, I get to work on something drenched in such an aesthetic. Here is a story of complex emotional themes that penetrates the surface of that which is "goth" and plumbs its darkest and, perhaps ironically, its most human depths.

What attracted me to Hanzo's initial pitch was his premise that perhaps the undead, in the midst of the reformation of the 16th century, found ways to integrate with and help the Protestant causes, therefore weakening the power of the Catholic Church, hell-bent on exterminating the undead from the world. To me, this sounded like a brilliant playground to explore Gothic angst and the legends surrounding vampires and werewolves in new and innovative ways. The result: Hans Steinbach's A Midnight Opera, a tale of immortality, redemption and bittersweet love.