Gaming & Culture

Exclusive Preview: Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story

By Douglas Wolk | August 16, 2010 | +

Mat Johnson and Simon Gane’s graphic novel Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story is a bank-heist thriller with a surprising setting: New Orleans in the middle of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. It comes out in comics stores this Wednesday and in bookstores next week, just before the fifth anniversary of Katrina. Here’s an exclusive preview of an early scene, in which we meet a few of the story’s players: a haughty bank manager, a single mother-to-be, and a sinister private security force.


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  • techkitty50

    Pretty deadon with the cultural references. I will definitely be on the look out for this comic and see if the local “chocolate” politicos are represented.

  • skinnieguy

    I lived in New Orleans during Katrina (I evacuated during the storm) and I worked as a bank teller. After seeing my bank flooded with 10 feet of water, I thought it would have been the perfect crime to commit at that time. Ghost city – no witness, plenty of time. No power – don’t have worry about alarms and vault timers. And there were five or six other banks on my street. It would have been an easy couple million.

    The only problem I could see is trying to clean the large quality of dirty money. I saw a lot of that after the storm. But if you can rob the bank before all the river water contaminate the bills.

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