Times of extreme adversity can sometimes produce the most poignant and beautifully bittersweet art. Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann's 1943 opera Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis, created while they were imprisoned in a Czech concentration camp during the Holocaust, has certainly stood the test of time. 80 years after the opera's creation, comic book creators Dave Maass and Patrick Lay have adapted the opera into an original graphic novel, retaining the original narrative and its darkly quirky sense of humor, introducing it to new audiences in a new medium. Due out this January from Dark Horse Comics, Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis is set in a world where Atlantis has become a technologically advanced dictatorship, full of escalating strife as Death takes a holiday.
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