Image Collects Brian K. Vaughan And Niko Henrichon’s Substack Comic ‘Spectator’

With so many creators offering special content for a price on Substack, it can be difficult to stretch my already finite money to cover everything I would like, so it’s great to hear that Brian K. Vaughan (Saga, We Stand on Guard, Paper Girls) and Niko Henrichon (Fang, Pride of Baghdad) are collecting their fully-painted Substack serialised comic strip into one graphic novel: Spectators. And it’s out now from Image Comics!

“Set hundreds of years in the future, New York City is haunted by many ghosts, including a voyeuristic woman who died in our present day and a mysterious gun-toting man from the distant past. Normally solo travelers, these two specters meet each other just in time to observe what might be the end of the (living) world.

Spectators is a shockingly graphic, gripping story exploring themes of life, death, regret, and voyeurism as two souls travel the world together bearing witness to society’s forward march toward decay. Readers won’t be able to look away as they watch with dark fascination as Spectators explores the fine line between living and watching-others-live in a world that increasingly veers toward sitting on the sidelines. Fully painted by the immensely talented Henrichon, and written by the bestselling and multiple award-winning Vaughan, this is an adult project — explicitly sexy, yet a deeply contemplative and bittersweet story of existential awakening.”

Adding to the synopsis, Vaughan said:

“Niko and I are so proud of every panel of this 344-page graphic novel, which took us over three years to complete, and which we hope will be a one-of-a-kind experience for mature readers ready for an uncensored exploration of the very different ways we all watch sex and violence.”