Joe Hill's Thumbprint Announced at IDW

Coming in June, The Cape co-writers Joe Hill and Jason Ciaramella will launch a new project titled Thumbprint. Based on Hill's original novella and featuring covers and art by Vic Malhotra, the series is "a twisted three-issue tale of fear, terror, and indelible remorse," according to IDW Publishing. "Bringing Thumbprint to life was a challenge for me," said Ciaramella. "Not because the prose was particularly difficult to adapt, but because the themes the story explores are haunting, and deeply disturbing. I had to step out of myself in order to capture the true horror of it without letting my personal agendas seep in." Hill said, "I was blown away by Jason's work on The Cape, and wanted more. Thumbprint is right in his wheelhouse: Jay has a feel for the psychological flaws that lead a basically good person down the wrong path. And no one writes action quite like Jay – he turns brutality into surreal comedy and back again faster than a magician turning a scarf into a dove. Add to that an opportunity to work with an artist like Vic Malhotra – who draws with a severe grace, and brings to mind the work Mazzucchelli was doing in Batman: Year One – and I think we've got all the ingredients for something that can really explode off the page." The premise revolves around discharged U.S. Army Private Mallory Grennan, who hopes to start a new life back home, far away from the things she'd seen and done in Abu Ghraib prison. Mal's crimes throw a shadow long enough to reach all the way to the United States.