New Comic ‘Graveyard Shift’ Turns Universal Monsters Into X-Men
Jon Malin (Cable, Thunderbolts) comes hot off the heels of the hugely successful, Jawbreakers: Lost Souls, with the announcement of his latest work, Graveyard Shift. Teaming with co-creator and writer, Mark Poulton (Savage Hawkman, Avengelyne), Graveyard Shift asks the question, what if The Universal Monsters were the X-Men? Horror meets Superheroes, In the 46-page graphic novel, Professor Vladimir Blud, a scientist working for the super secret Atlantis Corporation, and his colleagues upon a great betray are murdered and forced into their own experiments to become the monsters they were hired to create. Framed as terrorists, the Graveyard Shift must go on the offensive to stop a supernatural evil from dominating the race of Men and enslaving the Earth. The project has been a labor of love for Malin and Poulton. A homage to all things Jon and Mark loved growing up (superheroes/sci-fi/horror), the book was originally conceived in 2010 after Poulton reached out to Malin. Since then the project has
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