Excerpt: Mr. Jone’s Smoking Bones

It’s 1867. The East India Company has fallen, and a smoking skeleton is killing ex-company members.

A drug-addled Indian detective with a deep-rooted hatred of the British Empire is drawn into the investigation and enters a world of secret societies and the occult.

Each issue contains research materials collecting relevant research for the issue.

Secret societies, occult magic, reluctant heroes. Mr Jones’s Smoking Bones is a thirteen issue comic series, years in the making.

Written by Iqbal Ali, art by Priscilla Grippa.

The story follows Mr. Barzakh, an Indian detective who communicates with spirits as he mourns the loss of his friend Elisa and investigates the deaths of ex-Company members at the hands of a smoking skeleton. The first seven issues are currently available, with the final six installments releasing shortly.

Amid a mysterious underworld where science meets the occult, MR JONES’S SMOKING BONES grapples with questions of colonialism and the brutality of the British Raj, lending a fresh and powerful perspective to comics set in the Victorian era.

 

 

 

 

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Iqbal is a (mostly) comics writer crafting stories that blend sci-fi, horror, and mystery with a dose of weirdness and the supernatural. As a British Muslim, Iqbal often explores themes of identity, faith, and the strange unknown, creating tales that aim to linger in the mind. His latest project is about a troubled, drug-addled Indian man who is drawn into the world of secret societies and occult rituals as he investigates a murder apparently committed by a smoking skeleton. Learn more at 

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