I battellieri - Il Re della Palude

Subject, script and artwork: EsseGesse
Cover design: EsseGesse

Grudge and greed put two men one against the other, in spite of their blood ties (or perhaps precisely becaue of them). Snakes with lethal poisons, treachery and deception are the protagonists of this adventure involving Mark, where the boundary between life and death is thinner and thinner. The architect who is supervising the fortification works for the regular American army is really a nasty piece of work. He’s a rival of Mark’s in love and is devoured by his personal ambitions, so much so that he does not hesitate to join forces with the terrible Fingal, the King of the Marsh, to get the better of his enemy. And in the meantime, a sequence of mortal accidents disrupts the construction of the stronghold of the patriots...