About
The Creative Statement
They controlled the money. He controlled the fire.
You cannot buy a man who already knows what makes him rich.
What this is
An original American folklore universe. Not a franchise reboot, not a borrowed mythology — a working-class legend built out of a house with six lit windows, a stone fire pit, a black '75 Eldorado and a crew who never asked to be famous.
The hero has no cape and no corporation. He has fire, a family, and a refusal to be bought. The villains are not monsters; they are people who learned that money moves quieter than violence. The Keepers count. Nick burns.
Every issue is drawn for two lives: the cinematic reader on this site, and a print-ready page you can hold. Read the story, then take it off the screen.
The Oath
I do not fight because I hate what stands in front of me. I stand because I love what is behind me.
What is fiction
- The fire-powered hero called Mr. Delco, his abilities and every mission in the comics.
- The crew as depicted here — Tiny, Vance, Spark, Shh and Boochi — and everything they do on the page.
- The Keepers, the Curator, the Ember Crown, the Night Engine, the tower of locked stories and the second fire pit.
- All conflicts, crimes, organizations and supernatural events, plus the heightened version of Delaware County the saga is staged in.
The creator
The series is written and produced by Nick Reynolds, who lives and works in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The comics borrow the mood of that life — backyard fires, long nights, people who show up for their neighbors — but the hero on the page is a character, not a record of the person who writes him.
For factual background on the creator, separate from this fictional universe, see his biography and press site: nickreynoldsdelco.com. Nothing on this comic site should be read as reporting, and nothing in the comics is a claim about any real person, business or institution.
Fiction disclaimer
The Folklore of Nick Reynolds is a work of fiction set in a heightened, fictionalized world. Antagonists, supernatural events, organizations and story conflicts are fictional.