Phineas Frederick - My side of the beginning

This is a story of pretty much anything you want. We have magic. Wicked magic, that is. We have alchemy. We have false charges placed on the wrong person at the wrong time. We have our villain: Esmeralda "Madonna" Greene; the witch on whose behalf (so to say) her brother wrote. We have her brother Alexander as a sidekick; a connoisseur of fungi who finds just the hallucinogen for an unsuspecting victim. And we also have a hero. He's... just your ordinary police officer, who gets in a whole lot of trouble for a crime he didn't commit. We have a lot of things going on, and I won't spoil it for you. Read for yourselves!

Cover, as you see, by the phenomenal @sallaria_ann.