Welcome to Hopeless, Maine. An island steeped in evil… I mean steeped in history.
Meet Salamandra, an ordinary orphan girl, just one of many other orphans on the island (come to think of it, where did all the grown-ups go?). Sal faces the normal, everyday struggles of being a teenager- avoiding fell creatures of the night, trying not to get eaten by the aquatic fauna and finding something to do on a Saturday night. Like all young people, Sal can’t wait to get out of her dead-end home.
Book: 256 pages A5 148mm x 210mm
Binding: Perfect bound
Artwork: Full colour
ISBN: 978-1-908830-12-8
Available from: Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hopeless-Maine-Gathering-Tom-Brown/dp/1908830123)
Welcome back to Hopeless, Maine, the island steeped in evil and history where no one leaves, and no one returns, at least until now…
Owen returns to the island of Hopeless, Maine to find Salamandra has grown. Unfortunately, reunions are cut short by a new illness affecting the population. Is it consumption? Or some vampiric disease. Salamandra and Omen investigate the source of the mysterious disease and try to stop a war between the villagers and the local vampires. Things only get more delicate when Sal’s parents get involved! Be careful as you venture deeper into the source of Salamandra’s powers and the story
Book: 120pages A5 148mm x 210mm
Binding: Perfect bound
Artwork: Full colour
ISBN: 978-1-908830-14-2
Available from: Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hopeless-Maine-Sinners-Tom-Brown/dp/190883014X)
Welcome back to the fog-shrouded island of Hopeless, Maine- an island cut off from the world and lost in time. It’s been busy here since you’ve been away! We all knew that werewolves would show up on the island eventually. I mean, there are vampires (that cough), ghosts and all manner of things that go bump in the night, and occasionally around noon, for no particular reason.
Salamandra and Owen do their best to cope with this new danger to island residents while investigating a new rash of disappearances. Masked, cowled cultists have begun to make themselves known, and the vampires are about as much help as usual. Salamandra struggles with the disembodied presence that surrounds the island and continues to speak to her alone. Owen receives a new position, which he definitely does not want and Drury the undead dog cavorts across the island. This is the most eventful volume yet, with greater insight
Book: 120pages A5 148mm x 210mm
Binding: Perfect bound
Artwork: Full colour
ISBN: 978-1-908830-16-6
Available from: Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hopeless-Maine-3-Tom-Brown/dp/1908830166)
Welcome back to Hopeless, Maine, a haunted island lost in time and cut off from the rest of the world. While you were away, things have gone from a bit gloomy dangerous to downright tense. There has been some sort of power struggle between factions the underground population of the island (by which, I of course mean vampires).
The hard-won pact between the above and below ground citizens has been broken, and the orphan problem now includes tiny homeless undead children with unusual appetites. There are cloaked figures who are clearly up to no good and people coming back from the dead. This is an unusual turn of events even for Hopeless, Maine. As always, Owen and Salamandra do their best to keep the living population alive and the undead population from growing. It is now clear that in order to do this, they must begin to understand the larger problem of the island and the Fog that keeps it hidden.
Book: 112pages A5 148mm x 210mm
Binding: Perfect bound
Artwork: Full colour
ISBN: 978-1-908830-19-7
Available from: Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hopeless-Maine-Optimists-Tom-Brown/dp/1908830190)
This volume concludes the whole epic Hopeless, Maine graphic novel story arc. Salamandra, our young experimental occultist, faces and becomes entangled with the malign entity that possesses the island and we discover who the survivors are, and what sort of a life they might have. There are vampires and sinister cultists, werewolves ghosts and goblins, because this is still that sort of story. None of these entities behave in the way you might expect, because this is also that sort of story.
Everyone you love is gone, and you are all alone in a world of monsters and demons and slithering wet things from the deep. Your best friend hates you. Your guardians think you’re a burden, and wherever you go disaster and destruction and misery is sure to follow. You should put this book down, for god’s sake, and stop reading it now, but it’s too late, it has you in its net, and slowly, steadily it is pulling you ashore. Hopeless Maine, or as you call it now…’Home’.
-Leah Moore on Hopeless, Maine
Book: 116pages A5 148mm x 210mm
Binding: Perfect bound
Artwork: Full colour
ISBN: 978-1-908830-22-7
Available from: Amazon (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hopeless-Maine-Survivors-Tom-Brown/dp/1908830220)
