The Contrite is a psychological horror graphic novel about a disgraced psychiatrist who discovers that a counselor is relieving people of guilt by transferring its weight to the people they harmed. The perpetrators feel better and seem ready to move on; their victims begin remembering the harm from the perpetrators’ point of view.
As Dr. Mara Venn investigates, she realizes the counselor has been using ideas from her own work—and that her missing daughter may be connected to him. When Lucy returns, still seventeen while Mara is now fifty-three, Mara must face the harm caused by the choices she has spent years explaining away.
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This free preview of THE CONTRITE #1, Intake, shows pages 1 to 4 exactly as subscribers see them. Tap any page to open it in the page turn reader with zoom, or scroll through them here. From the back cover: They came to him carrying guilt. They left feeling free. Someone else paid the price. Now Mara must face what she passed on.
THE CONTRITE is a horror comic, built for slow dread, dark rooms and the kind of reveal you remember when the lights go out. Issue #1, Intake, is where the story starts, and it runs 30 story pages. Story and art are by Steven Cavan, published by Marc Antony Comics, an independent comics publisher that releases new issues on the 15th of every month.
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