PATRON #3

Clyde catches up with Lucy as she gets dangerously close to uncovering the truth behind Matty's alleged overdose. But when Detective Stone's investigation leads her straight to Lucy, the two women discover their paths may be more connected than either of them realized. Meanwhile, Mr. Cherish finds himself haunted by the consequences of his own bloody trail, as a ghost from his past returns to turn the tables on him.The dead don't stay buried in Christian Ward (Event Horizon) and John J. Pearson's (In Bloom) gripping fine arts thriller, where the hunters are about to become the hunted. Christian Ward is a multi-Eisner Award winning comic book creator. Currently writing Event Horizon for IDW, as well as having recently written the critically acclaimed Two Face series for DC comics. As an artist he is perhaps best known for Batman: City Of Madness (which he also wrote), Spectregraph (written by James Tynion ) and the cosmic space opera Invisible Kingdom (co-created with G Willow Wilson). He is also a prolific cover artist for DC Comics, BOOM! Studios, Image Comic and others. Ward lives in Shrewsbury with his two daughters, his wife Catherine and pug named Thor. John J. Pearson is an Eisner Award-winning artist and illustrator based in Leeds UK. He is the artist and co-creator of The Patron (with Christian Ward), The Smart Division (with Zack Kaplan) and In Bloom (with Michael Conrad). John has worked on Hellblazer: Dead in America and Batman: Urban Legends for DC Comics; The Department of Truth, Razorblades, The Infernals, and Blue in Green for Image Comics; as well as contributing to works published by Dark Horse, Heavy Metal, IDW and BOOM! Studios amongst others. He also frequently creates work for film and television, including poster art for Vice Press and cover art for Arrow Video.