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☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeWhen I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee #1 marks the comics debut of critically acclaimed horror novelist Gus Moreno, whose prose work This Thing Between Us earned NPR's 'Best Book of 2021' distinction — making this a rare and genuinely cross-medium debut that brought a literary horror voice directly into the pamphlet format. The series represents BOOM! Studios' continued investment in prestige horror original IP, sitting alongside landmark titles like Something is Killing the Children in the publisher's growing horror library. By fusing the police-procedural genre with South American religious horror and demonic exorcism mythology, Moreno and artist Jakub Rebelka pushed the exorcism sub-genre in a direction that is both character-driven and structurally indebted to crime fiction — a creative hybrid unusual in mainstream comics. The five-issue limited series also received a collected Spanish-language edition published by Astiberri in 2026, demonstrating an early international footprint for an all-original BOOM! property.
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Moreno conceived the series as a deliberate attempt to revitalize the exorcism genre, drawing on inspirations including True Detective, Se7en, Training Day, and the Argentine horror film When Evil Lurks, channeling them into a five-part limited series structure. His editor Ramiro Portnoy shepherded Moreno's transition from prose to script form, and Moreno has credited screenwriter Clay McLeod Chapman with generously helping him adapt his storytelling instincts to the comics page. Rebelka — a Polish illustrator and painter with prior BOOM! Studios credits including Judas and Origins — handled both pencils and colors, giving the book an unusually unified visual identity under a single visual artist. Issue #1 was scheduled to hit shelves on January 1, 2025, as a deliberate New Year's Day launch.
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- Series written by Gus Moreno (author of the horror novel This Thing Between Us, a 2021 NPR 'Best Book') — his debut comics work.
- Art and colors by Polish illustrator Jakub Rebelka (Judas, Origins, Cyberpunk 2077 tie-ins), who served as both penciler and colorist throughout the run.
- Lettered by Becca Carey.
- Issue #1 released January 1, 2025 (BOOM! Studios); the series ran for five issues, concluding with #5 in shops June 25, 2025.
- Story follows Father Manuel Barrera, a disgraced priest exiled to the fictional South American town of Puerto Cristina, where he apprentices under the unorthodox exorcist Father Merrick Stygian — both characters make their first appearance in #1.
- The series' title alludes to the Book of Ezekiel verse popularized in popular culture by Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
- Issue #1 shipped with at least seven cover variants, including covers by Jacob Phillips, InHyuk Lee, and Jae Lee & June Chung, plus a BOOM! Studios 20th Anniversary variant program tie-in.
- The complete five-issue run was collected and published in a Spanish-language hardcover edition (Cuando caiga mi venganza sobre ti) by Astiberri Ediciones in 2026.
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