Zac Thompson and artist Nicola Izzo are teaming up for an arctic neo-noir crime thriller from BOOM! Studios. The Beat can completely reveal Blow Away, which follows wildlife videographer Brynne within the aftermath of seeing a heated argument between two climbers finish in homicide. Set on Canada’s largest island, the distant Bafflin Island within the northeast, this cinematic page-turner options sweeping landscapes and terrifying twists.
“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,” mentioned Thompson in an announcement. “We’ve crafted a neo-noir thriller about obsession and the slippery and subjective nature of the reality. Really, it’s an enormous love letter to Brian De Palma and Alfred Hitchcock the place suspense is the driving pressure on each web page.
“But beyond all of that, Blow Away is the story of a wildlife videographer who may have recorded a murder,” Thompson continued. “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?”
Izzo added, “It’s great to work on a project that allows me to explore the comic book medium in such a cinematic way. I owe this to Zac’s multi-layered writing that creates suspense and interest at a FANTASTIC pace. I have always been fascinated by movies and comics where the direction is used in a three-dimensional way that focuses on storytelling and where the environment is an active part of the narrative. I hope all my passion for it translates to the page.”
Blow Away is slated to debut in April, with difficulty #1 covers by Annie Wu, Tyler Boss, and Tula Lotay and Dee Cunniffe, seen beneath.
“Isolation, paranoia, misinformation. These are important benchmarks of a good noir story, and are the core pillars of Blow Away,” mentioned sequence editor Elizabeth Brei. “Zac and Nicola are telling such an engaging, tight story. They are a team made for each other and are bringing something very different to crime comics with this one.”
Blow Away #1 can be obtainable in print and digital on April 17. Pre-order at your native comedian store.
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