Preview: Eshu, The God Of Mischief In ‘Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters’ #2
by Brendan M. Allen
BOOM! Studios has revealed a preview of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters #2, the next issue of a new comic book series based on the classic television show, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller. The series presents several extraordinary folk tales of legendary tricksters from the four corners of the world. Writer Jordan Ifueko , artist Erin Kubo, and letterer Jim Campbell present the next stand-alone chapter, featuring Eshu, the trickster god of the Yoruba people of Nigeria .
‘A teen Yoruba village girl summons the great god of mischief, Eshu, to coerce her crush, a dashing hunter, to break up with his sweetheart and marry her instead. Eshu agrees to help her, revelling at the chance to wreak havoc on them all…only to find that the village girl had a mischievous plot all of her own.’
Featuring main cover art by artist Peach Momoko and variant cover art by artist Dani Pendergast, Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Tricksters #2 hits the stands this Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Check out the preview art below.