Evil lurks in the Motor City and a little known folklore tale is revealed!
The Nain Rouge, translated from The "Red Dwarf" made his home near the narrow straits in an area the later French settlers were to name "Detroit". The Nain Rouge was responsible for keeping harmony and balance in the natural world but when Antoine de Mothe Cadillac and French settlers arrived in the 1600s, a quarrel began and soon this turned into an angry brawl. It is said that as The Nain Rouge was chased away, a curse was flung from his lips onto the entire region of Detroit. The curse, it is rumored, befalls anyone who creates evil of their own will, empowering the Nain Rouge with greater and greater strength throughout the centuries. And during the course of these centuries he has appeared to unsuspecting residences just prior to tragedy or misery befalling the area.
THIS ISSUE: Tom and Elly discover that one of their relatives was famed French explorer Antoine Cadillac who founded Detroit, and he had been the first victim to cross paths with the Nain Rouge creature. And now hundreds of years later Tom and Elly feel that curse as it was laid down by the Nain Rouge. For The Nain Rouge is a harbinger of doom that revels in the downfall of humanity and with the recent problems facing the Motor City, there has been numerous sightings of the creature again...
A Caliber Comics release.