The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of BOSTON METAPHYSICAL SOCIETY from Brass-T Publishing. Madeleine Holly-Rosing writes, Emily
Hu draws, Gloria Caeli and Fahriza Kamaputra color, and Troy Peteri and Shawn
Aldridge letter.
Samuel Hunter is a private investigator, but lately his
pursuits have turned to the supernatural. He is assisted by Granville Woods, a
brilliant scientist/inventor (and a black man in 1895), and Caitlin O’Sullivan,
the daughter of his former photographer (and a talented medium). While Samuel
is hunting a killer, he meets a group of famous inventors who work in secret to
discover how to manipulate the supernatural.
There are so many interesting layers in this story that it
would be difficult to list them all here (even if I wanted to spoil the story,
which I don’t). Samuel has some serious baggage in his quest to find “the
Shifter,” as do many of the other characters. The depth it all adds to the
story works wonderfully, so much so that it’s sometimes hard to remember who
the villain really is. And the art is a delightful blend of slightly drab
Victorian Boston and explosive steampunk super-science.
This title is a veteran of several successful Kickstarter
campaigns (its creator has also published a crowdfunding guidebook). Here we’re
looking specifically at the collected story as a whole (the trade). The story
is deep and rich, and the “science” is very cool both in concept and to see in
the art. It’s a world that I hope to see more stories set in (and with a new
Kickstarter promised in February 2018, we don’t have long to wait).
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
