Bad Blood
Bad Blood invites players to fill the well-polished shoes of journalist Joseph Field and uncover the mystery behind Dee Dumas’ murder. His journal is the key to solving this crime, read through his findings and decipher the clues across the deck of cards and you might just find yourself unraveling the threads of a diabolical conspiracy. Or grab a drink and try your hand at a game of poker as the body count grows, it’s your call…
There's a romanticism to vice, isn't there?
People brazenly – and stylishly – going after everything they want, no matter the cost. Those with an ace up their sleeve come out on top, they run this city. But the underground that props up our society is cracking at the foundations, a bullet-sized hole threatens to bring the entire place to its knees.
Acclaimed designer Kelly McMahon (Imperium) has created a deck of 54 playing cards that is a stylish illustrated tribute to the 1920s, with stunning art deco-inspired card designs. And that’s just the beginning, because the cards are also a murder mystery card game, featuring a story by Mat Groom, a comic book writer who has penned the comic book adventures of the Power Rangers and Ultraman and co-created the Image Comics sensation Inferno Girl Red. Each character card brings to life a different faction of the one-time solve murder mystery that can be played alongside any traditional card game.
Bad Blood invites you to fill the well-polished shoes of journalist Joseph Field and uncover the mystery behind Dee Dumas' murder. His journal is the key to solving this crime, read through his findings and decipher the clues across the deck of cards and you might just find yourself unravelling the threads of a diabolical conspiracy. Or grab a drink and try your hand at a game of poker as the body count grows, it’s your call…
Based off Bad Blood by Kelly McMahon, written by Mat Groom with art by Nicoletta Baldari and edited by Eisner nominated, #1 New York Times Best Selling author Kyle Higgins.
The Bad Blood ashcan comic story is only available as part of the Bad Blood Kickstarter campaign and leads the reader into the city’s most exciting speakeasy, The Broken Promise, where the powerful, the duplicitous, the ambitious and the noble collide.
Who is the murder victim, Dee Dumas, and how does she fit into this wider world of crime and glamor? How did she meet Joseph Field, the journalist who would wind up investigating her murder?