These Savage Shores

Paperback, 176 pages

English language

Published Aug. 20, 2019 by Vault Comics.

ISBN:
978-1-939424-40-2
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4 stars (4 reviews)

Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, the East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself. Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

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Excellently written and beautifully illustrated, this is close to a perfect one shot. A literal vampire arrives in southwest India with metaphoric vampires the EIC and we quickly realize who's the real essence-absorbing monster come to ransack the shores of Malabar and beyond.
It doesn't feel like its short length is a detriment at all, even with the expansive plot and multiple POVs. A real lesson in narrative economy IMO.

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