To load the viewer for First Incision, Witch Doctor’s “demo” issue, click the thumbnails below. Once the viewer opens, you can navigate back and forth through the pages.
(You’re encouraged to listen to the soundtrack, which you can find in the menu bar to the right — it’ll keep playing as you flip through the pages!)
It's a sick world.
Literally -- the universe is an organism, and the creatures of myth and folklore are invading parasites, preying on the native species and disrupting the ordered systems of the world.
It's a sick world, and Dr. Vincent Morrow's here to treat it. Headhunted into an exciting new career in the black arts after his excommunication from the medical community, Morrow serves the world with both hands -- one in magic, one in medicine -- as earth's protector. Earth's Witch Doctor.
Witch Doctor: First Incision is a 16-page medical horror comic introducing the Witch Doctor universe, written by Brandon Seifert and illustrated by Lukas Ketner.
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Each issue of Witch Doctor will be accompanied by a streaming soundtrack posted here!
"One guy I'm real excited about is Lukas Ketner... [Witch Doctor is] a great book, and they [Seifert and Ketner] have a lot of talent.” - Scott Allie, Dark Horse Senior Mangaging Editor
"Witch Doctor is awesome. It's House, M.D. by way of H.P. Lovecraft. Witty, gross, gorgeously drawn and just plain fun." - Brett Warnock, publisher, Top Shelf
"Any true horror fan should keep their eyes on Seifert and Ketner." - Mike Dringenberg (co-creator of The Sandman)
"There should be more horror comics like Witch Doctor. It's got the gross outs, and the cool characters, but it has ideas, too. It's a horror comic where they got a good artist and then thought, 'Oh man, what if we got a good writer too?' And that puts them a big leg up." - Joey Comeau, A Softer World
"Lukas Ketner [is] a fast rising star in the world of illustration." - Publishers Weekly's The Beat
"I was instantly reminded of a childhood spent reading classic horror comics like Creepy and Eerie... [Seifert and Ketner's] real-world medical/zoological approach is really intriguing!" — Vampire bat biologist Bill Schutt (Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures)
"Witch Doctor is brilliant! A prescription for what's ailing comics today -- a dose of good storytelling." - Jimmie Robinson, creator of Bomb Queen
"EC art crossed with Buffy-funny writing. I feel better already! Thanks, Doc!" - Lea Hernandez, Killer Princesses and Rumble Girls
"The kind of comics we need more of... If you're not reading Witch Doctor, I have no recourse but to seriously question your taste in comics." - Rantz Hoseley, creator of Vix!, Displaced Petsons and editor of Comic Book Tattoo
"The comic book I'm most looking forward to this year... Lukas Ketner's art is fantastic and Brandon Seifert's writing is fucking brilliant. I can't wait to see where they go with this book." - Mark Sweeney, colorist of Warren Ellis' Black Summer
April 25th, 2008 at 8:40 am
Wicked awesome! You gonna be de supah-stahs!
Great story, tight drawings. Love it!
April 26th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
You warned me at Stumptown today about the book’s language being inappropriate for my son, and I have two things to say:
1) This is great stuff!
and
2) LANGUAGE? It’s the LANGUAGE you were worried about for a six-year-old?
April 26th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
“HAHAHAHA!”
Auguste, that’s actually how I laughed out loud when I read that.
You’ve got a great point. I’d been warning parents with older children about the language, but for your son I really shouldn’t have focused on just that. (I remember being eight years old and having nightmares inspired by a Ghostbusters cartoon about a werechicken of all things. Traumatized me for days.)
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
April 28th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Witch Doctor rules. So excited about this title.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Nice! Thanks Brian! And thanks again for you and Jeremy being so awesome to us at Stumptown!
May 6th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I really liked your take on vampirism. Good stuff and excellent artwork and storyline. Especially for a free comic. You two must of been inspired to produce this by yourselves
May 6th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Wonderful! I really enjoyed it!
May 11th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Very entertaining comic indeed. Great concept.
Was wondering where the last song on the sound track comes from?
June 27th, 2008 at 9:21 am
This comic was really imaginative, and extremely well-drawn. I like it! I look forward to the next part; you sucked me in in 16 pages. Nice!
July 5th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
very cool, I can’t wait for the next issue!
September 28th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
I am very impressed. Artwork is excellent and subject matter is very well handled. Good stuff. Glad you tipped me off to this site Lukas.
October 12th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
This is very cool. I got to your site via Greg Palast’s Steal Back Your Vote comic .pdf. Wasn’t expecting this crazy shit, lol. If I may be so bold, I think the cover needs some work. It didn’t give me an idea of what to expect, and kinda turned me off… but I’m not sure why. Don’t get me wrong, its an amazing drawing, I just don’t think it reflects the content of the comic very well. A good cover makes me want to read on! Anyway the comic itself was awesome, good job.
February 7th, 2009 at 7:39 am
I want MORE. :O
February 9th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
I really like your vampire concept. Got here from the Whitechapel forum.
February 9th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Thanks CyberSkull and Y! Glad you guys enjoyed it!
May 30th, 2009 at 6:17 am
Great read, thouroughly enjoyed the story and great artwork as well. Top notch!
June 12th, 2009 at 9:49 am
This was better than 90% of stuff I pay for….keep it coming. (”stumbled” upon you, BTW)
July 19th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
Beautiful!! Reminds me of Old School Wrightson.