The Damned is a horror-noir five-issue limited series American comic book created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt, and published by Oni Press.
Plot
The story revolves around a cursed man named Eddie, and his demonic curse of returning from the dead over and over again. The curse is always at the expense of whoever happens to be the next person to touch him. The injury that killed Eddie vanishes, and whoever touched Eddie while he was dead, appears on them, and in turn, they die.
The story is set in a prohibition era era and involves demonic gang bosses who command their own family/gang of demons. They do have a supernatural dimension to their gangs, but are most commonly showed committing crimes such as: trafficking souls, running speak easys, drive by shootings and brawls.
Two warring gangs are coming to a "mutually beneficial" agreement. When a moderating demon is called in to make arrangements for the truce, someone kidnaps him. Eddie is hired by the gang boss Alphonse Aligheri to find out what happened to the missing arbiter.
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