When you’ve had the success that writer Scott Snyder has had in his career, it would be easy to rest on your laurels and take it easy. But that’s not Snyder’s style apparently. For the first publication under his Best Jackett Press Label, Snyder along with fan favorite artist Tony S. Daniel bring us Nocturnal. This will be an ongoing series on Image Comics but Snyder and Daniel have decided to premier the new creator owned book in style. They recently created a KickStarter for a special edition collectors book in advance of their new series.
Press Release
A recent press release gives a synopsis for their story:
(August 17, 2020) Imagine that tomorrow the sun simply doesn’t rise. You wait. And you wait, but night just continues. You can still feel the sun’s warmth – it must be there – but for some reason, light no longer reaches the earth. There’s only darkness. But this new darkness, there’s something strange about it, something terrifying. Because anything – or anyone – that stays in it too long starts to change…
NOCTERNAL takes place ten years after the world is plunged into an everlasting night that turns all living creatures into monstrous “shades.” Enter Valentina “Val” Riggs, a skilled “ferryman” who transports people and goods along deadly unlit roads with her heavily illuminated eighteen-wheeler. When an old man promising sanctuary offers Val a job to drive him and his granddaughter up through the Rocky Mountains, she takes it. Hoping there might be some truth to his claim. What she finds in the end, though, is something much more horrifying than any shade…
Snyder himself is quite excited to share this creator owned project with the fans, especially after all the trials and tribulations that have come this year.
2020 has put a lot of things into perspective, for comics fans, pros, and businesses–and for me. With everything going on right now, I wanted to return to creator-owned work in an even more dedicated way. NOCTERNAL is the first release under my new Best Jackett Press label and will be released by Image Comics as a monthly series, starting early next year.
But with conventions shut down for the foreseeable future, the creative team and I wanted to find a direct way to build meaningful relationship with our fans. Even before issue one drops to give them a unique experience. We decided to create a behind-the-scenes collector’s edition of the first issue that provides a different reading process. It looks at how a comic like this gets made, and highlights Tony’s phenomenal line work.
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