Kingdom of the Wicked
| Kingdom of the Wicked | |
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Cover of Kingdom of the Wicked , trade paperback collected edition. Art by D'Israeli.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher |
Caliber Comics Dark Horse Comics |
| Format | Limited series |
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| Publication date | August 1996 – March 1997 |
| Number of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Ian Edginton |
| Artist(s) | D'Israeli |
| Letterer(s) | Woodrow Phoenix |
| Colorist(s) | D'Israeli (Dark Horse volumes) |
| Editor(s) |
James Pruett Joe Pruett |
| Collected editions | |
| Hardcover | |
Kingdom of the Wicked is a comic book series written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli. It was published as a mini-series in 1996 and collected into a hardcover volume in 2004.
Kingdom of the Wicked was originally published as black and white comics in the mid-1990s by Caliber Comics.
After Dark Horse Comics published Edginton and D'Israeli's Scarlet Traces in 2002, they released an updated version of Kingdom of the Wicked on December 1, 2004. The new version was collected as a hardcover, colored, included a new eight-page prologue and extra story at the end, and was revised to include references to contemporary children's fantasy, such as J. K. Rowling and Lemony Snicket.
Kingdom of the Wicked focuses on Christopher Grahame. As a young child he was bedridden and to amuse himself began writing stories centered around an elaborate fantasy world named Castrovalva. As he grew older, he eventually abandoned Castrovalva and its population of made-up friends. (The new prologue shows how, after Chris left, a monster in the shape of a boy arrived to begin terrorizing the populace) After marrying and having his first child, Chris began to write stories again to amuse his daughter. His wife collected them and, without his knowledge, sent them in to be published. Now, several years later, he is known as the greatest children's writer in the world, besieged by offers of movie rights, sequels, art galleries, and the like.
At a press event, Chris begins having a series of blackouts, finding himself back in the world of Castrovalva. However, Castrovalva is now a war-torn landscape, where his childhood friends are fighting a war similar to World War I against a figure known as "the Great Dictator". The Great Dictator was the monster-child from the prologue, the "spitting image" of Chris. Chris sees his friend, teddy bear Sergeant Fuzzbox, get killed by going over the top and another friend, tin soldier Captain (now Colonel) Flashheart be murdered by an agent of the Great Dictator.
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