You wouldn’t think that watching Full House reruns would inspire a gritty supernatural take on the “women in prison” genre, but stranger things have happened. Creator Steven Prince (Monster Matador) took a quote from the family comedy and ran with it — right into a Filipino monster.
Mercy: In Prison marks a slight departure for Prince, after years of dealing with monsters in Mexico. Designed as the first in a series of one-shots, the book features an ordinary young woman who has been framed as a drug mule. While serving a sentence in a labor camp, she encounters an aswang, a vampire-adjacent monster from Filipino mythology that’s… well, let’s just say it’s a sloppy eater for now.
We took some time last week to talk about the book, the reasons for Kickstarting, and should you be drinking wine while reading it.
Works mentioned in the interview:
Trese, vol. 1: Murder on Balete Drive
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