The
city is always dark.
It is a hive of sin and corruption where junkies, data thieves, gangs, and
genetically engineered monsters rule the streets.
You have a vice or a sickness, you'll find it here.
Helmut Muckenstich is a young man who once crossed paths with
the world's most powerful leaders, Werner Herzog, ruler of the city. Helmut married Herzog’s
daughter...without permission. He uncovered sensitive information about Herzog that was
best left buried...and for this he is punished.
His brain is downloaded onto a computer chip and placed into a new, vat-grown body,
a green four-foot-tall gargoyle. Then he is banished to the most violent decadent part of
the city.
Now, as Herzog's evil plans come to fruitition, Helmut must
climb out of Hell to save the woman he loves and exact revenge upon the man who ripped his
life to shreds.
But it's a long crawl...
And in the future, it’s not easy being green.
Golgothika; an impossible collision between The Wizard of Oz,
BladeRunner, and Frankenstein.
Written and created by John Bergin who with his
perpetually dark artwork, devastating nightmare visions, apocalyptic intensity, and
seemingly limitless imagination, has been compared to both Franz Kafka and Heironymus
Bosch.
Golgothika
2 : War in Heaven
Helmut continues fighting his way out of the ghetto known as hell in order to
rescue Wyoming, the woman he loves, from her would-be kidnappers. He fails. Consequently,
he takes his fight to the source of all his troubles: Werner Herzog, the most powerful man
in the world. Helmut storms Herzog's tower and battles with Tai Ch'ung, the bio-engineered
giant. Helmut then makes a startling discovery about Wyoming.
Golgothika 3 : Enter Now the World
After a bloody defeat in Herzog's tower, Helmut wakes to a strange, nightmarish
world. Everything has changed. Giant machines of destruction have scoured the planet clean
and the few surviving humans shiver in small, frightened groups... the world is obscured
by dark shadows cast from a massive tower that looks...familiar. In issue 3, a young
waif-like angel befriends Helmut and helps him make sense of his new surroundings.
Golgothika 4 : Follow the Blood Red
River
After a bloody defeat in Werner Herzog's tower, Helmut Muchenstich (a green,
four-foot-tall gargoyle), wakes up in heaven... a heaven that looks more like hell. In the
midst of the wasteland: the house of god... a gigantic black monolith which bears a
startling resemblance to Herzog's tower. Helmut explores the strange cathedral he awoke to
find himself in. He looks for a door that leads out. With the help of a deranged
fire-breathing dragon and an emaciated young girl with wings, he finds a door and sets out
to storm the house where God lives... the last time Helmut assaulted Werner Herzog's tower
in a desperate attempt to rescue the woman he loves, he was up against unbeatable odds...
this time he is up against God.