First Look: Image’s New Dark Fantasy ‘Crowbound’ From Jeff Lemire And Dustin Nguyen

Announced by IGN earlier this month, it would seem enough tine has passed for the erst of us to feed of the scraps. And what tasty scraps they are, as writer Jeff Lemire and artist Dustin Nyugen reunite for this new ongoing dark fantasy series, Crowbound.

Here’s what both Lemnire and Nguyen said to IGN at the time:

“Crowbound is the darkest book Dustin and I have done together but still filled with heart and hope. It’s been rewarding building the expansive southern gothic sci-fi world of Crowbound and we can’t wait to unleash it on readers.” — Lemire

Nguyen added:

“I’m very excited to explore this new world and new ways to tell a story with Jeff again, it’s always a great time when we get together like this. Hope everyone joins us for the adventures as they did on Descender and Little Monsters.”

And here’s the plot and preview:

“Rose isn’t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else — a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that’s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what’s left of the world on the other side …

But when Rose’s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory’s walls.”

Described as “Margaret Atwood‘s The Handmaid’s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy‘s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan’s Labyrinth,” Crowbound #1 is out on Wednesday, 2nd September from Image Comics.