The cursed painting of Devil's Bridge
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Stefan Du Blanc, painter of Devil's Bridge, a city hanging between two mountains, has recently lost his muse and only source of inspiration for his works: Marlo Belle, a man who liked to dress as a woman.
Heartbroken and thinking about jumping off the bridge, he encountered a mysterious ink with which he finds himself painting again what he remembered of the feminine side of his lover, however, the woman in the painting emerged from its own canvas.
PD: Provisional cover. From the universe of Darvakan.
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