VOX WORMHALL: ROBOT DETECTIVE DROPS A HARD-BOILED MYSTERY INTO A CITY WHERE REALITY CLOCKED OUT

Five years after his partner’s murder, one deadpan robot detective is still hunting answers through mechanical ghosts, floating equations, tech moguls, and the beautifully broken madness of Constant Harbor.

WEPAAAA! Detective stories usually come with dark alleys, bad coffee, crooked suspects, and somebody lying through their teeth.

Constant Harbor looked at that formula and said, “Nah, fam. We can make this WAY weirder.”

Now available from Brain Poison, VOX WORMHALL: ROBOT DETECTIVE is a 62-page, full-color, self-contained original graphic novel from creator P.A. Lopez, with artwork by Samuel Bermudez, and this bad boy is planting its flag somewhere between science-fiction noir, surreal comedy, cosmic mystery, and straight-up emotional damage.

Welcome to Constant Harbor, a city built on impossible architecture, unstable logic, bureaucratic nonsense, and apparently the belief that the laws of physics are more like polite suggestions. At the center of the madness is Vox Wormhall, a methodical, stone-faced robot detective carrying one case he has never been able to put down.

Five years ago, Vox’s partner was killed during their very first case together. The murder was never solved. That wound has been sitting there ever since. Now Vox is digging again, chasing a mystery that refuses to stay buried while navigating a world filled with floating equations, mechanical ghosts, tech moguls, impossible machinery, and enough weirdness to make a normal detective hand over the badge and go open a food truck.

The trick here is that Vox Wormhall does not appear interested in being strange just for the sake of being strange. Underneath all the cosmic insanity sits something much more human: grief, loyalty, obsession, memory, and what happens when somebody refuses to stop asking questions long after everyone else has moved on. That tension between the ridiculous and the heartbreaking is exactly what gives Constant Harbor its flavor. One minute you are staring at something that looks like mathematics escaped from detention. The next minute, the story punches you right in the feelings. Rude. I respect it.

According to Brain Poison, that collision between absurdity and intimacy is the backbone of the larger universe they are building. The publisher points toward the DNA of titles like Saga, The Incal, and Transmetropolitan, which should give readers a pretty good idea of the sandbox we are playing in here. Big ideas, strange worlds, sharp personalities, satire, pain, and enough visual imagination to keep your eyeballs working overtime.

Vox Wormhall: Robot Detective also serves as part of the opening wave for Brain Poison alongside BoredSpace #1 and 10 Million AD.

Readers can check out Vox Wormhall: Robot Detective here, while the full Brain Poison lineup is now available through GlobalComix and at BrainPoison.net.

A robot detective. A dead partner. A five-year-old murder. A city where logic has apparently packed a bag and left town. Yeah, mi gente, VOX WORMHALL: ROBOT DETECTIVE sounds like exactly the kind of beautifully strange comic-book rabbit hole we like falling into around here.