''Industrial Gothic'' is a five-issue
comic book
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written and illustrated by
. It was published in 1995 by
Vertigo
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, edited by
Lou Stathis.
Story
Pencil and Nickel are two inmates of a prison in a dystopian society in which ugliness is a crime. Pencil was born in the prison; Nickel is incarcerated there because she has no arms or legs. They decide to escape, in order to find a semi-mythical place called The Aluminium Tower, in which everyone is accepted no matter what they look like.
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1995 comics debuts
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