Beautiful, fearless, resourceful and talented. That’s Taxi. One night, a man named Nelson rescues her from an attack… and changes her life. He works for a news agency called Control Press, and “recruits” Taxi for his investigative team. In “The Dragon’s Labyrinth,” a rampant disease is killing only black people. Taxi risks her life to expose the sinister plot behind this “Black Death.”

The end of the 19th century, the twilight of sailing ships, and the picturesque islands of the South Pacific, are the setting for these history-laced adventures. Jon Rohner, a likeable sailor who lives on the edge of the law, tells his stories to Robert Louis Stevenson -- the famed author of such classics as Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- who has settled on the Samoa islands and befriended Rohner. Through Rohner’s stories we are taken into a world full of excitement, action and drama: from his kidnapping a princess to prevent a war between two tribes; to a story about a man who fell in love with a cannibal queen, left his family and got tattooed over his whole body and face; to Rohner’s surviving a tsunami and volcano eruption. The stories -- Rohner’s adventures -- are seemingly in endless supply.

With an extremely critical eye, brilliant comic artist Alfonso Font explores some of the darkest facets of mankind and showcases the vilest human weaknesses as a gloomy farce. Written and drawn over 30 years ago, “Dark Stories” first appeared independently in a Spanish magazine, but was never before published in an album format. Now, finally, the stories compiled in this volume have not lost any of their momentum. The compelling aesthetic sensitivity of Mr. Font and his uninhibited drawing style are not for the faint of heart – the powerful imagery and the morbid humor run like golden thread throughout the book and will leave almost nobody indifferent.