Grendel: Devil’s Legacy, written by Matt Wagner with art by the Pander Brothers. Matt Wagner created Grendel in Comico Primer #2 and then did a three issues for Comico (since re-released as Grendel Archives) before it was prematurely ended. While he was working Mage, he reworked Grendel and released it as Grendel: Devil by The Deed. But, at the end of this, the protagonist (the super villain Grendel) is dead and his antagonist (the cop Argent) is confined to a wheelchair. What Matt Wagner decided to do was continue Grendel, but make the story about the Grendel spirit inhabiting other people. The first story (published in Grendel #1-12) tells the tale of Grendel’s adopted daughter’s daughter, Christine Spar, and her need for revenge. It moved Grendel for a conventional hero/villain battle to something more.

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