Il prigioniero della laguna

Plot and script: Carlo Recagno
Artwork: Luigi Coppola
Cover: Giancarlo Alessandrini

Venice, year 1755. The Venetian nobleman Giacomo Casanova is arrested and thrown inside the “piombi”, the terrible prison of the Serenissima. Who reported him to the authorities, though? And what crime is he accused of? Who’s taking an advantage from his imprisonment? Year 2010. Following the instructions of a disquieting teenager, Martin Mystère go to Venice; for him, it’s only the beginning of an unbelievable journey to a completely foreign world, where nothing is what it seems to be, and where, looking in the mirror, Martin sees a face that’s not his own. Here, threatening and grotesque creatures appear and vanish in the fog, just like they aim to send an obscure message…