Caligula: Heart of Rome, #1

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Caligula returns for an all-new series by the original creative team! David (Stray Bullets) Lapham and painter German Noble return to the time of hedonism and supernatural evil with Caligula: Heart of Rome #1! They thought the mad emperor destroyed, his mysterious soul box gone, and his body run through with a thousand blades. But the demon lives on and ten years later the job of finding and slaying the beast once and for all has fallen to heroic Laurentius. But can anyone unravel the mystery of the demon before its bloody tendrils can make glorious Rome a wasteland? Available with Regular, Wraparound, or Gore covers by German Noble, and a special Imperial Retailer Incentive.


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[mystmaven]

Well, this second helping of Caligula is really very nice! Wow! There's some really horrific stuff in here but very beautiful.



I'm new to the series, but I know already that I'm in on it for sure!

[FriendRoss]

The link seems dead. Who publishes this?

[mystmaven]

The link seems dead. Who publishes this?

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[FriendRoss]

So it looks like issue1 is already out.

Anybody pick it up? Seems interesting as hell. Comics would present a interesting forum to explore Caligulas story

[mystmaven]

So it looks like issue1 is already out.

Anybody pick it up? Seems interesting as hell. Comics would present a interesting forum to explore Caligulas story

Well yes me, I'd recommend it highly, but it's very much not for the kids I'd guess you'd say... the tone is really graphic and adult which I like very much. The story is pure fantasy of course, about a demon that resided inside of Caligula. Caligula was killed in the last series, Caligula TPB #1 but in this new one 'The Demon' so called survived somehow and is killing again...

I didn't know or read any of the first issues of Caligula but am going to buy the TPB. I'm insane about the Romans of course, I actually read The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire By Gibbons, not that I can remember any of it!

I agree that Comics are a good forum for the Caligula story...

[FriendRoss]

So it's not just Caligula for Caligula's sake. Not just an excuse for the adult themes, there is some thought and factual history there


If I can find it ill definitely grab it

[Professor Moriarty]

i saw a thing on the history channel about him recently. they said he wasn't crazy, just psychotic.

not a major step up is it?

[mystmaven]

i saw a thing on the history channel about him recently. they said he wasn't crazy, just psychotic.

not a major step up is it?

Well those were actual Emperors and it was probably very different than life in our very modern times... I mean, they didn't watch television. That alone is rather telling!