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Grendel: Devil Quest              First Edition Hardcover 
Tie-in to Matt Wagner’s popular Batman/Grendel series. Grendel: Devil Quest collects the events 104 years after Grendel: War Child.  Awesome!!
Writer: Matt Wagner
Artist: Matt Wagner
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Editor: Diana Schutz
Cover by: Matt Wagner

Mature Readers

Most often, the master painter’s hand of Grendel-creator Matt Wagner graces only book covers, but here, with the uncensored account of Grendel-Prime’s quest to contact the spirit of the original Grendel, Hunter Rose, Wagner brings his astonishing brushwork to an entire volume’s worth of storytelling! In seven chapters, all written and lusciously painted by Wagner, the deadly cyborg Grendel-Prime pursues the past with singular purpose, even while the decadent and decaying world he has forsaken hunts him for reasons of its own. With each chapter a twisted relation to the children’s rhyme, “Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief,” this tightly crafted work is an essential piece of the Grendel canon, and a tie-in to Wagner’s popular Batman/Grendel series.

Matt Wagner wrote and painted a series of short stories as backups in Grendel Tales, starting in 1994 and collected in 1995. This hardcover collection of the story was released in March 2008. The one-shot collection, Grendel: Devil Quest, features the backup stories which ran in the various Grendel Tales mini-series: The Devil’s Hammer (1994), The Devil in Our Midst (1994), Devils and Deaths (1994), Homecoming (1994-1995) and Devil’s Choices (1995). Set 104 years after War Child, these back-up stories feature the Grendel-Khan, Jupiter Assante III, as he attempts to find Grendel-Prime in the wastelands. The cyborg, disillusioned by the decadence of the world, is attempting a bloody experiment/ritual to contact the soul of Hunter Rose, his namesake. The ritual seems to work and Grendel-Prime disappears. He later reappears some distance away, badly damaged. What happened when he vanished and why he was damaged was not explained until 1996 with the publication of the second Batman/Grendel crossover.

Story (Spoilers!)
Part 1 – “Imitation of Life”, Raikshaw and Jones plan the overthrow of Jupiter III, Grendel-Khan. Jupiter III has set a plan in motion. Reprints from Grendel Tales: The Devil’s Hammer (1994) Issues #1,2 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 2 – “Glistening”, Grendel Prime jumps in on a miner. Reprints from Grendel Tales: The Devil’s Hammer (1994) Issue #3 Dark Horse Comics & Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst (1994) Issue #1 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 3 – “Incisionary Tactics”, The Session twins torture Dr. Creach’s lover about the doctor’s involvement in the Grendel Prime project. Reprints from Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst (1994) Issues #2,3 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 4 – “Pigsville”, Blue goes to a bar called Le Sty in Gobi desert. Reprints from Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst (1994) Issues #4,5 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 5 – “Meat Machine”, Prime gets a slave to feed Creach’s machine which harnesses the NecroNova. The Session twins approach. Reprints from Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (1994) Issues #1,2 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 6 – “Babylon Crash”, Jupiter is going insane waiting on word on Prime while his empire is crumbling. Reprints from Grendel Tales: Homecoming (1994-1995) Issues #1,2 Dark Horse Comics.

Part 7 – “Too Dead to Die”, Blue gives up the trail. He throws away a fragment of Hunter Rose’s skull. After he leaves, the skull fragment sparks. Reprints from Grendel Tales: Homecoming (1995) Issue #3 Dark Horse Comics & Grendel Tales: Devil’s Choices (1995) Issue #1 Dark Horse Comics.

Mature Readers

Hardcover reprints/collects from:
Grendel Tales: The Devil’s Hammer (1994) Issues #1,2,3 Dark Horse Comics.
Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst (1994) Issues #1,2,3,4,5 Dark Horse Comics.
Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths (1994) Issues #1,2 Dark Horse Comics.
Grendel Tales: Homecoming (1994-1995) Issues #1,2,3 Dark Horse Comics.
Grendel Tales: Devil’s Choices (1995) Issue #1 Dark Horse Comics.

Hardcover is bagged and will be carefully / securely packaged then shipped via USPS Priority Mail to ensure that it arrives to you perfectly and quickly. 

First Edition
Publisher: Dark Horse Books 
Publication Date: March 2008
Format: FC, 64 pages, HC, 10.45″ x 6.85″
ISBN-10: 1593078889
ISBN-13: 9781593078881

Collectible Entertainment note: Hardcover is New & Unread.  Very Fine + condition.  Beautiful!  Please See Scans!!  A must have for any serious Grendel and/or Matt Wagner enthusiast / collector.  A very fun & entertaining read.  Highly Recommended. 

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