STYX TAXI returns to the Chemistry Set!
Posted by StevenGoldman on Monday, November 5 2007 at 12:03 pm
After an extended hiatus, Styx Taxi is returning to the site’s weekly line-up, starting this Thursday with a story worthy of the Halloween season, “Federico”, with art by longtime ChemSetter Tom Williams (Oni Press’ No Dead Time, the Chemistry Set’s Stuck with Vito Delsante).
Styx Taxi is an ongoing series of stories about New York’s only taxi service for the dead. The ghostly drivers of Styx Taxi offer the souls of the recently-deceased the chance to cross back through the veil, to take two precious hours and make peace with the life they’re leaving behind. Contentment and closure, that’s their goal.
“That premise gets a sharp tweak with ‘Federico”,” says Goldman. “Dom, one of Styx’s drivers, has to help a soul get out of an unusual prison: his own body. Someone’s turned Federico into a zombi, and whoever it was, they won’t take kindly to someone undoing their hard, horrifying work.”
Styx Taxi started as a print series in 2003, published by FWDbooks, and will continue to straddle the print/web divide. The first three one-shots, Pastrami for the Dead, A Little Twilight Music, and As Above, So Below are all still available from the publisher at styxtaxi.fwdbooks.com.
Check out the series that Newsarama called “a thinking person’s comic full of deep writing and incredible energy,” and that J.M. DeMatteis called “sharp, challenging, touching.”
“Federico” will serialize on Styx Taxi’s usual Thursday slot starting November 8th, with other stories to follow.
Category: Chemistry Set Announcements, Styx Taxi
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