Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer Volume 1 (Of 6): The Torturer's Apprentice (Comic Book) (Volume One of the Book of the Sun)

This six issue mini-series from Innovation Of which only three issues were published .Adapts Gene Wolfe's dark 1980 novel by the same name. It's set sometime in the future, when man has entered into a new dark ages, far worse than the first ones. The world of that age had become a necropolis-a city of the dead. The story follows Severian, a young man who was grown from early childhood to become a torturer. In this necropolis, torturing had become a guild profession, and was studied as avidly as a priest studies religion. Severian was no different in his devotion to this profession-until he met a strange man named Vodallus who gave him a coin-and began his transformation into a new man.