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Supernatural Law: Grandfathered in

Batton Lash

The law firm of Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre has a unique practice: defending monsters and the supernaturally afflicted! In this full-color original graphic novel, Alanna Wolff and Jeff Byrd take on a case in which a ghost is literally "grandfathered in" to a home inheritance: Grandpa has died but his ghost won't leave the house, much to the chagrin of his son and daughter-in-law. Meanwhile at the law offices, that landlord wants Wolff & Byrd to leave because their clients are disturbing the other tenants. Readers can expect lots of plot twists and turns and surprising revelation. This is the first new Supernatural Law graphic novel in 5 years.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Exhibit A Press
  • Publish Date: Sep 10th, 2018
  • Pages: 112
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 10.50in - 7.10in - 0.60in - 0.60lb
  • EAN: 9780981551982
  • Categories: HumorousHorror

About the Author

Cartoonist Batton Lash studied at the School of Visual Arts with comics greats Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. In the 1980s-1990s Batton's "Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre" was a syndicated weekly newspaper strip. It became the comic book Supernatural Law in 1994 and a webcomic in 2007. The stories have been collected into numerous trade paperbacks. Batton has also done comics for Archie (including the famous Archie Meets the Punisher) and for The Simpsons. Batton's latest project is "The First Gentleman of the Apocalypse," a new series being serialized in the online comics anthology Aces Weekly.

Batton Lash received the Inkpot Award from the San Diego Comic-Con in 2004. He was nominated for two Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in 1997; in 2002 he won the Eisner for Best Humor Comic, Radioactive Man (Bongo).

Praise for this book

Battonʼs keen sense of humor is what makes his work so good and so enduring.--Will Eisner, dean of graphic novelists
Batton Lash does not write down to his readers. His love of language is evident on every page. And that's fitting. Alanna and Jeff are lawyers; their weapons are words, so we expect them to use them well. I like Wolff and Byrd most of all because they tend to do the right thing. They take on the system on behalf of the outcasts, the "different" ones, the rejects . . . the monsters, if you will. They defend the sanctity of the individual and (as long as he, she, or it doesn't initiate force) the right to be different.
--F. Paul Wilson, author, The Keep; "Repairman Jack" series; Panacea
Few things in life turn out be a reliable source of intelligent delight. Supernatural Law has a secure place on that short roster.
--Michael Chabon, noted author
[Supernatural Law] is the finest funny supernatural fiction ever created.--Neil Gaiman author, The Sandman, American Gods, Anansi Boys
Supernatural Law gets me laughing out loud every time!
--Frank Miller, creator, Sin City; The Dark Knight Returns