Gutsville is a 6 issue comic book series by writer Si Spurrier and artist Frazer Irving, due to be published in April 2007 by Image comics.
The story kicks-off in 1850 aboard the British naval barque Daphne, bound for Australia; crammed with colonial passengers, aristo-adventurers and frothing missionaries. Four days from Sydney the waves become wreathed in sparks, the sky runs like quicksilver, and the very sea seems to open wide and swallow…
Cut to 2007. The descendents of the Daphne’s passengers eke out a desperate life in Gutsville: a shanty-city held together with mucal slime and weed. They live in the belly of a great beast whose exterior none have seen and whose innards are all they’ve ever known. Here in the dark, lit by methane lamps, harvesting moulds from pus-polyps set into the viscera of an impossible being, a new culture has arisen: a mongrel-society of Victorian values, religious doggerel, and survivalist justice…
And always the question – whispered in secret gatherings beyond the eyes of the watchful Jonahkin priests:
What is the beast..?
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