George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Sins of the Father

• Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction 
• Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes
• Fiction / Science Fiction

A cop on the trail of a bizarre murder uncovers a hidden conspiracy—and shocking secrets about his late father—in this original graphic novel set in George R.R. Martin’s shared-world universe, Wild Cards.

An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated.

Today, Aces, Jokers, and uninfected humans live in relative peace. “Francis “Franny” Black is an uninfected human cop, trying to police a world filled with people with extraordinary powers that he lacks. Newly—and some would say, too suddenly—promoted to detective, he has been working out of Wild Card central, the precinct in Jokertown where the bulk of the virus fell in 1946. Franny’s father was one of the heroes of the precinct, killed in the line of duty, and Franny is finding it hard to fill his dead father's shoes. Until he’s given a particularly insidious case and starts uncovering long-buried secrets that his father might have died to protect. . . .

Illustrated in a gorgeous, cinematic style by Michael Komarck and Elizabeth Leggett, this unique graphic novel is a visual feast certain to delight.

Story Locale:Wild Cards Universe

Series Overview: A superhero universe set in the here and now, in which an active virus can transform people into Aces (superheroes) or Jokers (mutants), and how these populations interact with the non-altered human Nats.