Steam Punk Series by Joe Kelly, Chris Bachalo, Richard Friend, James Rochelle, Richard Starkings

What would you do... to save the love of your life? England, 1738: Cole Blaquesmith, a simple fisherman, falls in love with Fiona, a beautiful, gentle teacher. However, their blossoming romance is cut short when Fiona falls ill with a terminal disease.Would you sell your soul to a madman? Dr Absinthe, town pariah, a sinister ghoul in his castle on the hill holds the secret to saving Fiona's life... but this 'cure' comes with a terrible, terrible price... moreWhat would you do... to save the love of your life? England, 1738: Cole Blaquesmith, a simple fisherman, falls in love with Fiona, a beautiful, gentle teacher. However, their blossoming romance is cut short when Fiona falls ill with a terminal disease.Would you sell your soul to a madman? Dr Absinthe, town pariah, a sinister ghoul in his castle on the hill holds the secret to saving Fiona's life... but this 'cure' comes with a terrible, terrible price.Would you trade humanity for strength? The 'experiment' requires a test subject... a Pilot. A young, strong body to endure the arcane rigors of science.Would you undo the course of human history? As Cole loses himself behind a whirling tangle of steel and light and science, he closes his eyes and prays that he has not made a grave mistake. When his eyes open again...He knows with all his heart that his world will NEVER be the same again...Steampunk: Manimatron. Love is eternal. History is not.Enter a world of madness, action, dark science, fiction, and shattered history where one man battles to set right a world torn apart for love. Collecting the first arc of the groundbreaking Cliffhanger series by Chris Bachalo (Death, Generation X) and Joe Kelly (Superman, X-Men) featuring Steampunk: Idiosyncratica, Steampunk: Cathecism and issues 1-5 in one haunting and beautiful volume. less

With a mechanical arm, a furnace for a heart, and a hundred years of sleep behind him, Cole Blaquesmith is no ordinary man, and his quest is no ordinary adventure.Having traded his humanity to the treacherous Absinthe in exchange for a 'cure' for his lady love, Cole finds himself on the front lines of a revolution, trying to take down the man who used him, killed his beloved, and took over half the known world... moreWith a mechanical arm, a furnace for a heart, and a hundred years of sleep behind him, Cole Blaquesmith is no ordinary man, and his quest is no ordinary adventure.Having traded his humanity to the treacherous Absinthe in exchange for a 'cure' for his lady love, Cole finds himself on the front lines of a revolution, trying to take down the man who used him, killed his beloved, and took over half the known world. With a ragtag band of stalwarts, Cole Blaquesmith takes the fight to Lord Absinthe's door, and beyond.This volume, collecting Steampunk issues 6-12, continues the madly original saga begun in the Cliffhanger book Steampunk: Manimatron, by the same brilliant creative team of Chris Bachalo and Joe Kelly. Love and war, life and death, truth and lies—nothing is as it seems in the darkly twisted world of Steampunk, and the unpredictable in the only certainty.Steampunk: Drama Obscura—come inside... but leave your expectations at the door. less