Truth Lies At The Bottom Of A Mountain In BOOM! Studios’ ‘Blow Away’
by Brendan M. Allen
BOOM! Studios has announced Blow Away, coming April 17, 2024 from writer Zac Thompson and artist Nicola Izzo. The neo-noir crime thriller is styled in the tradition Fargo and Rear Window.
Isolated in the remote Baffin Island, wildlife videographer Brynne Brautigan sees something she can’t unsee, an argument followed by an instance of intense violence between two climbers…
Did she just witness a murder?
In a frantic search for the truth, Brynne discovers just what she’s looking for, but soon she will find that more than the silent white of winter is keeping her company…
Blow Away #1 features covers by Annie Wu, Tyler Boss, and Tula Lotay.
“Ever since I first watched Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation, I’ve dreamt of telling a paranoid thriller story. Blow Away is that dream made manifest through an incredible collaboration with Nicola,” said Thompson. “We’ve crafted a neo-noir mystery about obsession and the slippery and subjective nature of the truth. Really, it’s a big love letter to Brian De Palma and Alfred Hitchcock where suspense is the driving force on every page.
“But beyond all of that, Blow Away is the story of a wildlife videographer who may have recorded a murder. We’re arguably living in the most obsessive, post-truth era where regular people are routinely turned into subjects of collective scrutiny. So what happens when you explore those ideas in a place that is entirely removed from that culture? Does something still bleed through? Can a person whose job it is to see patterns really trust their eyes?”
