Scar Tissue: Bargains

Arthur pled to a silent god. Something else answered.

Arthur Bryne's child is dying. He begs heaven for help and gets nothing - until something ancient opens its eye and takes an interest.

Bestaat does not bargain. Bestaat does not promise. Bestaat demands service, suffering, and obedience - and offers only this: each dawn is its own. Sam's life, one earned day at a time.

Marked with a half-demon face, bonded to a sardonic parasite with opinions, and sent out nightly as an ancient god's executioner, Arthur becomes the kind of monster who tells himself the victims deserve it. His best friend refuses to leave. His marriage bleeds out in a handwritten letter. And Sam - the kid he'd burn the world for - may have learned something in the dark that no god wants known.

Structured in the stages of a healing wound - hemostasis, inflammation, proliferation, maturation - Bargains is a story about grief, rage at silent heavens, and the terrible math of what a father will trade.

112 pages of stark black-and-white horror for readers of Wytches, Gideon Falls, and Something Is Killing the Children.

Written, illustrated, and lettered by Stephen Fox.