A supernatural sci-fi murder mystery series by Eisner Award-winning artist Karl Kerschl.

Death Transit
Tanager

She speaks to the dead. Some don’t want to go.

Tanager Ray is a Death Transit:

one of a handful of young women with the strange gift of talking to the dead, working as a ferryman for lost souls stuck between here and the afterlife.

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Inspired by Metroid, Hellboy and a LOT of manga and anime.
Drawn in black and white with Shonen Jump–style screentones.

CHARACTERS

  • TANAGER RAY

    Death Transit. Speaks to the dead, finds their bodies, gets them home, usually after something goes very wrong.

  • MAGPIE

    A rival of Death Transit Tanager doesn’t like working with her, but has no choice in issue #3.

  • THE TRANSITS

    THE TRANSITS

    A rare order of young women who can hear the dead. The job pays. The dead don’t always cooperate.

32 pages per issue: a black-and-white feature story plus an all-new full-colour backup.

Metroid · Hellboy · Shonen Jump manga · 80s and 90s anime · space horror · murder mysteries with ghosts in them

Metroid · Hellboy · Shonen Jump manga · 80s and 90s anime · space horror · murder mysteries with ghosts in them

  • Metroid · Hellboy · Shonen Jump manga · 80s and 90s anime · space horror · murder mysteries with ghosts in them

  • Karl Kerschl has been making comics for thirty years: Superman, Batman, The Flash, Teen Titans, Gotham Academy, Assassin’s Creed, Transformers, and his creator-owned ISOLA at Image (three Eisner nominations, 2019). He’s best known for his Eisner-winning webcomic The Abominable Charles Christopher.

  • Four campaigns. CA$271K+ raised from 4,400+ backer pledges, and every campaign a Kickstarter Project We Love.

  • #1 : Tanager tracks down an old asteroid miner’s body, and the Past Lives backup story asks who she was before she became a Death Transit.


    #2: Tanager races to rescue a young girl from the jaws of death.


    #3: Forced to team up with her rival Magpie, Tanager hunts down the corpse of a wealthy widow’s husband.

  • 32-page comic · glossy colour cover · black-and-white feature + 8-page full-colour backup · limited variant covers (while they last)

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