Ophelia House
A Speculative Fiction Graphic Novel
Written by Carlton L. Sampson and illustrated by Andrew L. Willis
Po Lyn Lee, "Ophelia House", is produced and published in 12 parts. Currently under production, the first 7 parts are available for purchase now. The remaining parts will be available for purchase over the next several months.
Introduction
Some people say proof of man's predatory dominance as a species is not continuously evolving weapon systems but man's prehistoric mastery of the plants, minerals, and animals of his environment; humanity's innate awareness of nature, the elements, the spirit, of how they combine to make life. Awareness lost to the continuing war, famine and plague of ancient history. Awareness symbolized, ritualized, and retained as faith by a surviving prehistoric animistic belief system. Its disciples performed the birthing rite of the ‘ta shen ling‘, the 'she demon', Po Lyn Lee. She is the ‘Mi Chu’, the ‘secret death’.
Part 1: The S. I. C. Job
Freed from its cage to her job as an extraordinary assassin, Po receives a message from grandmother, the matriarch of a prehistoric secret cult. As instructed by grandmother’s message Po must use some of her special talents as an assassin for the first time. A little girl bears witness to the Ta Shen Leng performing its job but cannot remember or tell what she has seen. It is a private introduction, at a private party when the Board of the Seattle Investment Cartel first meet the "Mi Chu'.
