An Opera Written in a Concentration Camp Is Being Turned Into a Genre-Bending Graphic Novel
Eighty yr ago Peter Kien and Viktor Ullmann , imprisoned in the Nazis ’ Czechoslovakian ghetto at Terezín , write Der Kaiser Von Atlantis , a one - number opera that imagined a earth wherethe famed underwater kingdomnever really sunk . While the two did n’t endure to see their workplace perform , now it ’s been transformed into a genre - mixinggraphic novel . io9 can reveal that Dark Horse Comics ’ Berger Books will release Death Strikes : The Emperor of Atlantis , adapt by the EFF ’s Dave Maass and artist Patrick Lay , this fall ....