It’s hardly a new metaphor for the corruption, avarice and sociopathic tendencies of New York’s financial district (or the banking establishment as a whole), but here Hickman adds to it by weaving an intricate, densely-plotted detective story into the mix. The Wall Street crash of 1929 takes the sinister form of a sacrifice to a malignant evil named ‘Mammon’ – a New Testament word for Greed – and the notion of “blood money” is a theme that underlies it all. And in the latest release from Jonathan Hickman & Tomm Coker, that is the undeniable truth as The Black Monday Murders posits that everyone from the IMF to Goldman Sachs to the Federal Reserve are in fact occult covens where vampire Russian oligarchs, Black Popes and American enchanters form uneasy alliances to keep us all in line. “Money is the root of all evil”, or so the saying goes.
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