Imagine splashing the Byzantine Empire into a graphically bright and luxurious comic. Visualize scenes of battle where the protagonist bleeds polyps of candy red, white, and black out of his neck… severed from his body and spewing onto the ground. His compulsive line work and detailing tell oddly mesmerizing stories of voyages and battles. Leines’ work has an intriguing aesthetic, influenced equally by the Hermetic Sciences and Hulk Hogan and He-Man.