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Netflix’s Diablero Spin-Off “Mundo Diablo” Launched

By | July 11th, 2020
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Heavy Metal’s VIRUS imprint has launched “Mundo Diablo,” a comic book based on Netflix’s Diablero, by writers F.G. Haghenbeck and Homero Rios, and a host of artists, including Andrés Esparza, Sergio Martínez, and Renato Quiroga. This will be the first official US release for the title.

The Mexican TV series, which is an adaptation of Haghenbeck’s novel, El Diablo me obligó, follows a priest, Father Ramiro Ventura, as he seeks the help of Elvis Infante, a Diablero (demon hunter), to find a girl who is lost in Mexico City. “Mundo Diablo” will tell Elvis Infante’s stories of the Spanish Conquistadors arriving on the continent, not only armed with swords and gunpowder, but with demons and armed angels too. It follows the Naguals, the sorcerers of the New World, who fought against the invading forces.

Rios said the series has “a quasi noir setting” where angels, demons, and Abrahamic mythology has been “combined with pre-Hispanic creatures such as the powerful naguals, sorcerers who can adopt the form of animals.” He continued by describing the series as “a very good example of the scope [of] Latin American magical realism and what it has to offer for the contemporary reader.” Haghenbeck added that the spin-off “is a broad look at the literary and cinematographic universe of Diablero, where new stories are explored through the art of the best Mexican comic artists in the industry.”

“Mundo Diablo” #1 is available now.


Luke Cornelius

Luke is an English and American Literature and Creative Writing graduate. He likes spending his time reading comics (obviously), going out on long walks and watching films/TV series.

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