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description: NEW ONGOING SERIES written and illustrated by JEFF LEMIRE (DESCENDER A.D. Sweet Tooth). ROYAL CITY charts the lives loves and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades. Patrick Pike a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings his overbearing mother and his brow-beaten father all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother Tommy who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a return to the literary and thematic territory of LEMIREs breakthrough graphic novel Essex County and is his most ambitious and most personal project to date.
language: English
title: Royal City #1
publisher: Image Comics