Synopsis: Can you reform a Ripper?

Dr. Marianne Gordon, a psychotherapist working in the criminal investigation department of the metropolitan police has a case file dropped onto her desk that she doesn’t know what to make of: a twenty-something British amnesia victim who seems to be convinced that he is Jack the Ripper. Picked up on suspicion in a string of violent serial murders, “Jack” is both amiable and outright stupid ~ seemingly too stupid to have even committed the crimes he’s accused of. Who is this tea-drinking, chain-smoking, affable anarchronism who talks to an “imaginary” incarnation of the notorious Springheeled Jack?

When Jack offers to help collar the real killer, strange and wonderful things begin to happen, proving this lost lamb has powers not only beyond belief, but beyond his own control. Dr. Caligari had nothing to compare to the creatures in the cabinet of this reincarnated serial killer’s mind.

This graphic novel debuted at Comic-Con 2007 ~ !

Some Background on this Project: A mild mania for urban legends, ghost stories, and the chilling true tales of ghoulish murder in East London in 1888 were the basis of this somewhat zany, but dark series.Jack transplants everyone’s favorite psychosexual maniac to modern-day America to not only get him some much-needed therapy, but to atone for his violent misdeeds. Ripperologists and other “hunt the Ripper” fanatics may wonder which suspect plays the lead role in this particular drama, but our hero is an amalgamation of mythology and reality ~ even he doesn’t recognize himself and has only the vaguest recollection of his murderous past.

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