Idea for a comic book
The King’s pardon arrived even as the axeman was swinging down to behead the notorious Marquis. The executioner, being a professional, managed to tweak his swing, so that all the Marquis came away with was a scar on his neck and a vivid sense of his own mortality. And a problem. He had technically been executed. He was officially dead. A legal ghost. He is able to attend his own funeral, and then his wife’s second, much happier, wedding shortly after. These experiences give the Marquis a new perspective on life, and a new approach to it. Legally dead, he able to do things no ordinary mortal can and get away with them and he sets out to use his new status to right the wrongs of the aristocracy and fight for justice as The Phantom Nobleman.