The folks at AfterShock Comics have put together another series that will be coming out in 2020 with Undone by Blood or the Shadow of a Wanted Man. The series is set to launch on February 12th, 2020 and comes from writers Lonnie Nadler and Zac Thompson and artist Sami Kivela along with colorist Jason Wordie and letterr Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. The book will also come with a main cover by Sami Kivela with Jason Wordie that you can see to the right and an incentive cover by Andrew Robinson that you can see below with some preview pages.
“Lonnie and I are both huge fans of Spaghetti Westerns,” said Zact Thompson. “Visually they’re some of the most wonderfully shot and dynamic films out there. They rely on visual storytelling first and foremost and often feature leads who speak seldomly. We were dying to bring that energy to comics. Beyond that, we both adore the fiction of Cormac McCarthy and wanted to do a book about the mythologization of violence in America. The Western has always been a genre that flirts with explosive bursts of horrible violence and we wanted to explore the very real cost of that violence and how it often creates a cycle. So we looked to one of the most brutal storytellers out there. This book will cut your heart out and eat it by the end.”
Check out the incentive cover and some preview pages below!
Plot Concept: In the early 1970s, Ethel Grady Lane returns to her hometown of Sweetheart, Arizona with one thing on her mind: killing the man who murdered her family. But first, she’ll have to find him.
As Ethel navigates the eccentric town and its inhabitants, she learns that the quaint veneer hides a brewing darkness. She has no choice but to descend into a ring of depravity and violence, with her only ally an Old West novel that follows famed gunslinger Solomon Eaton. As both stories unfold simultaneously, a love of fiction informs choices in reality, for better or worse.
