Muros: Within Magical Walls: The Case of the Cemetery Girl

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An intrepid gumshoe tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case in a city about to erupt into violence

Manila the walled city recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule is a magical metropolis where monsters flit and feed along neon-lit streets. In this noir-tinged dystopian graphic novel, the capital exists in an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide. In a city now governed by the mysterious Societies, tensions between the human and nonhuman inhabitants are about to hit a breaking point.

When the one-eyed Yomaws are accused of exhuming and consuming human cadavers, Carlos sets out to clear their name, unmask the true culprits and restore the lost the culprits and return the lost daughter to the fold.

This graphic thriller features:

• A newly freed Manila, walled off since World War II, where the Tyranny's regime has fallen and the open city is governed by the mysterious Societies.
• A one-armed Taga-Sagot a gatherer of information, an answerer of questions, a fount of knowledge is charged with finding the missing 'daughter' of a small-town mayor lost amidst the temptations of the open city, now a den of pleasure districts and corruption.
• The cast of nonhuman and fantasy characters includes one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals.

Reviews

"I don't expect even readers here to be familiar with all of the references -- but what I do hope is that I am able to give them a taste that is enticing enough that they seek out more: more about Filipino heritage and more from Filipino creators." --Paolo Chikiamco, interviewed in Publishers Weekly
"Sinaban's versatile art is appropriately moody, making effective use of solid black fills and silvery-gray shading, while rendering striking fantasy architecture, fast-paced action, and goofy antics. Carlos's prim-and-proper journalist sidekick and the characters' simple and effective manga-esque expressions add levity Folks who fell under the spell of the Philippines comics scene with Trese will delight in this."--Publisher's Weekly

Author Bio

Paolo Chikiamco is a Filipino writer of prose, comics, and interactive fiction. He is the editor of Alternative Alamat: Myths and Legends from the Philippines and his work has been published in anthologies such as The Sea Is Ours and The Best of Philippine Speculative Fiction. In the field of comics, he's the co-creator of Mythspace: Ignition (Ablaze Publishing), and A Sparrow's Roar (BOOM! Studios). He has also served as a judge for the Graphic Literature category of the National Book Awards, and is the creator of the #RP612fic Twitter hashtag.

Borg Sinaban is a freelance comic artist and illustrator based in Manila. He's a sci-fantasy enjoyer and a lover of both soft and hard magic systems. He currently does character designs and book covers when not making graphic novels of his own.