Spike: Asylum

Spike: Asylum is a series of five comics based on Angel television series. It will be released from September 2006 onwards. The five issues will be collected together in a single trade paperback some time in 2007.

Ruby Monahan has gone missing and her family recruit Spike to track her down. It seems Ruby (a half-demon) has been checked into "Mosaic Wellness Centre", a rehab facility designed to cure the demonic. In an unfortunate turn of events, Spike faces both the Mosaic centre which hopes to cure his vampiric nature, and its clientele who want him dead.

Trivia

 * The Usual Suspects - A 1995 movie written by Christopher McQuarrie, directed by Bryan Singer, and starring Kevin Spacey. The variant cover for Asylum #2, references promotional material from this movie (which was also used for the DVD cover)


 * Brian Lynch wrote the movie, Big Helium Dog, which was produced by View Askew