Hector Plasm
Hector Plasm is the name of a comic book character, created by Benito Cereno (writer) and Nate Bellegarde (artist). The duo had started out writing back-up stories in Invincible for Image comics.
Publication history
Hector Plasm stories have been published by Image Comics, most notably in Hector Plasm: De Mortuis, a one-shot comic book compilation of all previous Hector Plasm stories.
Hector Plasm stories have been included in Invincible, Western Tales of Terror, and Popgun, Volume 1.
Hector Plasm: Totentanz is a new one-shot that came out October 2009 and bears a Halloween theme. It is, like the first comic book, made up of short stories.
Fictional character biography
Hector Plasm is a benandanti who roams the earth in the hope of helping ghosts, humans, and demons alike to live in harmony with each other. The comic itself has a similar sort of formula as Hellboy by taking myths and legends from various places around the globe and putting them into a modern setting. Unlike Hellboy, however, Hector Plasm strives to be as faithful as possible to the myths presented within the text.
"Hector came about as a result of Nate Bellegarde's and my desire to show people we could do something other than what they had seen from us before... So we put together a book that contained lots of elements we enjoyed - ghost stories, international folklore, dudes cutting things with swords, classical mythology, all of that. So we threw it all together with a feel of southern Gothic folk music and sea shanties, and out came Hector." -Benito Sereno, SilverBulletComics.com interview.
References
- Hector Plasm at the Comic Book DB