Scott Snyder Returns To Horror With ‘Canary’
by Anton Kromoff
Welcome to the table,
I’ve always had a love for westerns, horror, and weird-west genres. They have always spoken to me. When you combine that with the guy who brought me back to superhero books, Scott Snyder, I’m hard-pressed not to be excited about this announcement.
Blending modern horror, historical fact, and western lore, Dark Horse Comics, Scott Snyder, and Dan Panosian bring Canary to print in stunning oversized issues featuring 56 pages!
Written by Snyder, illustrated by Panosian, and lettered by Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Tyler Smith, Canary #1 will also feature variant covers by Panosian, Emma Rios, and Jill Thompson.
The story is set during the final days of the Gold Rush. A mining company in Colorado pulls up radioactive uranium — but the mine collapses in on itself.
Legends sprang up about the mine being cursed or even haunted. Now, the Frontier is closed, the gold and silver mines have dried up, and the country is becoming “civilized,” and yet, in one stretch of the Rocky Mountains, a terrifying, new kind of violence is suddenly emerging: random killings as people go mad and murder neighbors or classmates without real cause. When a schoolboy kills his teacher with a hatchet, a famous federal marshal named Azrael William Holt is called in to investigate the killings. What he and a brilliant young geologist uncover is stranger and more horrifying than anything they could have ever imagined.
“Canary blends gothic horror and the western genre into a world never seen before,” said Panosian. “Scott created a unique take on this story and it demanded an equally unique take artistically. I wanted the look, the feel, and the colors to take a reader to a place they haven’t been to before. A Western is familiar to most of us – but taking that style and twisting, ever so slightly, presents a certain unease that helps shape this experience. We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we have enjoyed creating it.”
We can all dig deeper into Canary #1(of 3) on November 1, 2023. It is now available to pre-order for $4.99 at your LCS.
The Canary TPB will also be available for pre-order starting September 12, 2023, at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore.
Until next time, when the guy who runs your comic shop gives you Scott Snyder books to read prepare for the rest of your life to change. I’m not saying it will happen, but it happened for me.
