The Blood-Clot Boy
"The Blood-Clot Boy" is a 6-page Comics, comic by Al Columbia loosely based on the tales of a Blood Clot Boy, legendary hero of the same name in Blackfoot Confederacy, Blackfoot folklore. It was published in the sixteenth issue of ''Zero Zero (comic), Zero Zero'' (April/May 1997). Synopsis The wealthy Count and Countess Borovsky give their lovely conjoined twin daughters' hand in marriage, along with their home and fortune, to a visitor who claims to be a distant family relative. Although he offers assurances that he will care for the Count and Countess in their old age, their new son-in-law soon begins to neglect them, and taunts and abuses them with the willing participation of his bride(s). Left to forage for food, the Count secretly observes his son-in-law slaughtering a yak, and steals a large clot of blood from the animal's butchered remains. When he puts the clot into a pot of boiling water to make soup it magically turns into a small boy, who grows to the size of a normal e ...
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