The Cape: 1969

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It's 1969 and the war in Vietnam rages on. Captain Chase,a Medevac helicopter pilot for the US Army, is shot downover enemy territory. He and his crew are in a fight fortheir lives as they play a deadly game of cat-and-mousewith the Vietcong... but they soon learn that machine gunsand grenades aren't the only terrors hiding in the jungle.Find out what happens in this origin prequel to the EisnerAward-nominated hit, The Cape.

Joe Hillis the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofFull Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, andNOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC.His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix. His book of short stories,20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series,Locke & Key,featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodriguez.

"Could this flashback reclaim the quality and intrigue from that first one-shot and four-parter? Yes, yes, YES!" -Comics Anonymous "The art is visceral, the palette is grungy, the hero is all-American, and the situation is grim." -Comic Bastards