HAUNTED CITY (2011)

"Peter Johnson - Writer / Michael Ryan - Art In the corners of our minds, we find ourselves asking who protects us from the unknown? Time is running out for Detective Tom Whalen. He's got NYPD Internal Affairs breathing down his neck, Korean drug dealers chasing him across the streets of Manhattan, and a lunatic Albanian crime boss wanting him dead. His only chance for salvation: a Priest who comes to him offering him a chance to work on his team. But, Whalen soon discovers that this is a very special team: it's a secret unit within the NYPD that has existed for centuries. A unit as old as New York itself, sworn to protect the city from monsters and myths, the terrors and nightmares that exist in the darkest shadows and corners of the great metropolis. Meanwhile, ten year-old Deshawn Carver seeks escape from school bullies and his abusive home life in the form of an ancient-looking figurine he carries as a totem. When the figurine suddenly comes to life as a terrifying and beautiful Celtic demon goddess, his fate is changed forever. Until a group of city workers find his dead body in a centuries-old tunnel 700 feet below the city streets, an impossible mystery for Tom and his new cohorts begins... Teaming up with producer and director McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, Aspen Comics brings to you this all-new story that's set to take comics and Hollywood by storm! "

"Peter Johnson - Writer / Michael Ryan - Art Who protects us from the unknown? Stripped of his badge and gun by Internal Affairs, Tom is lured to a meeting at a decadent nightclub where Albanian gangster Vic Cerberus reveals that the most dangerous thing about him isn't the fact that he's a notorious drug dealer... it's the fact that he's a werewolf! Barely surviving the ambush, Tom is forced to hide out at his father's Irish Gothic home in Queens. We meet 'Iron Mike' Whalen, the most decorated cop in the history of the NYPD, and begin to suspect that he's concealing secrets of his own. And all along, time is running out for missing ten-year-old Harrison Seavers as the Morrigan lures him ever closer to his doom. Teaming up with producer and director McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, Aspen Comics brings to you this all-new story that's set to take comics and Hollywood by storm! "

"Welcome to New York City. The biggest haunted house in the world. With Cerberus and his werewolf gangsters closing in, Tom steals his father's credentials and breaks into the NYPD's evidence warehouse, hoping to steal enough heroin to buy his way out of a death sentence. But instead of narcotics, Tom discovers evidence that his legendary father may be more sinner than saint. Meanwhile, the Morrigan lures yet another innocent child ever closer to his doom. Teaming up with producer and director McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, Aspen Comics brings to you this all-new story that's set to take comics and Hollywood by storm! "

"Welcome to New York City. The biggest haunted house in the world. Volume one of HAUNTED CITY reaches it's shattering climax as Tom and the team fight for their lives against the evil that surrounds them on all sides, culminating in a pitched battle against resurrected 19th-century gangsters that rages from the Stygian depths of Manhattan Island to the pinnacle of the Empire State Building. Secrets are revealed and questions are answered as Internal Affairs, Vic Cerberus' werewolf gangsters and an entirely new threat test our heroes as never before... and one member of the team pays the ultimate price. Teaming up with producer and director McG's Wonderland Sound and Vision, Aspen Comics proudly brings to you HAUNTED CITY, an all-new story that's set to take comics and Hollywood by storm! "