Series:

Wormwood

4 primary works • 9 total works

Book 1

Cover of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse Volume 1
Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Singularity 7, Fell) creates an all-eerie and humorous new series. Things are awakening in the city. Things that have a nasty habit of leaving mutilated bodies in their wake and it all reeks of demons and dark gods up to no good. Owing a favor to his lazy ghost cop buddy Trotsky, Wormwood, the gentleman corpse and his oddball entourage are brought in to investigate the case (or at least hopefully not stuff it up too much.)

Book 2

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Volume 2: It Only Hurts When I Pee
This second collection of Eisner Award-nominated artist Ben Templesmith's Wormwood moves beyond the simply bizarre and into the sublime lunacy that is Lephrechaunia as Wormwood and his posse search for the Leprechaun Queen, the only being capable of lifting the terminal curse that our hero has contracted. But if rabid leprechauns and inter-dimensional travel isn't enough to get your head spinning, enter the Squidmen, a terrifying collective of "gatherers," hell bent on ingesting everything they can get their tentacles on!

Book 2

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Vol. 2: It Only Hurts When I Pee
This second collection of Eisner Award-nominated artist Ben Templesmith's Wormwood moves beyond the simply bizarre and into the sublime lunacy that is Lephrechaunia as Wormwood and his posse search for the Leprechaun Queen, the only being capable of lifting the terminal curse that our hero has contracted. But if rabid leprechauns and inter-dimensional travel isn't enough to get your head spinning, enter the Squidmen, a terrifying collective of "gatherers," hell bent on ingesting everything they can get their tentacles on!

Book 3

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Vol. 3: Calamari Rising
Just when Wormwood thought he could finally have that quiet drink without worrying about the world coming to an end, or a friend with a parasitic infection trying to kill him, The Brotherhood of the Calamari decide to crash the party. Since their last meeting, they've tracked him across the thousand million dimensional possibilities of existence — and this time the entire Squideeverse is with them! Wormwood is going to learn the hard way he can't keep running from his problems as his oldest foe now threatens his favorite watering hole, Earth, with absorption into the Calamari group mind!

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse Omnibus
Wormwood is an intergalactic, inter-dimensional, immortal, happy-go-lucky larval worm-thing with a liking for fine stout, strippers, and most of the other vices planet Earth has on offer. Oh yeah, and he wears corpses like suits.

Follow along as Wormwood, his robotic drinking companion Mr. Pendulum, and his new hire Phoebe take on demonic beings nesting in humans, nasty leprechauns, and face the revenge of the Brotherhood of the Calamari. Collects issues #0–8, the One-Shot, Calamari Rising #1–4, and Last Call.

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse: The First Few Pints
An oversized hardcover collection that includes the first three volumes of Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse. Wormwood is an intergalactic, inter-dimensional, immortal, happy-go-lucky larval worm-thing with a liking for fine stout, strippers, and most of the other vices planet Earth has on offer. He wears corpses like suits. Follow along as Wormwood, his robotic drinking companion Mr. Pendulum, and his new hire Phoebe take on demonic beings nesting in humans, nasty leprechauns, and face the revenge of the Brotherhood of the Calamari.

Cover of Ben Templesmith's Art of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse
See the art, read the story, ride the worm! Ben Templesmith collects all the notable art plus a large amount of unpublished ideas, sketches, and never-before-seen paintings from his cult classic, semi-regular, off-beat serial Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse.

Cover of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse: Mr. Wormwood Goes to Washington
Comics' most genteel zombie returns with his signature blend of macabre humor, hilarious horror, gore, gags (the funny kind), and gags (the trying-not-to-vomit kind).

Wormwood had been gone for some time. Too long, if you were to ask his old friends. So, when a special agent from the U.S. government asked for Wormwood's help, they were determined to track him down, no matter what dimension he'd buggered off to. Now that he's back, things are about to get political. He and the gang are off to Washington, where, for once, his heart may be the warmest one around.

Collects the three-issue series plus the Wormwood: Christmas Special.

Cover of Art of Wormwood, Gentleman Corpse