

Many people have told the story of Black Shuck before, but it’s usually compounded into a mere retelling of the professed events and sighting in St. Rumours abound and before you know it perhaps the most legendary of all British mythical beasts are born: Black Shuck Others say its Eyes burn with the white-hot flames of Hell itself. Some say the Beast is a big Demon Dog, eight-feet-tall when on all-fours with fur as black as tar. Inside the Church, the Beast is said to have feasted upon four unsuspecting worshippers. …but one fateful early August night in 1577, peace is disturbed in this unassuming village, when a Beast tears through the Church doors leaving claw marks that appear to be scorched into the Wood with an intense heat, claw marks that can be seen to this very day. In the small village of Bungay, life sits in an undisturbed status quo Peasants labour over backbreaking work tilling the fields by hand, the Merchant Class preside over looms and textile traders and Bungay Castle lays peacefully dormant as it has for the centuries passed since Hugh Bigod was pulled from it by Royal Guard to face execution after a failed rebellion against King Henry II… Tudor-era England, the deeply rural county of Suffolk, to be specific. Below are all the juicy details from the Kickstarter page. Canadian Comic Book Alliance member Mark Allard-Will has recently launched his latest Kickstart Project, The Burning Black: Legend of Black Shuck.
