Will Briar Go Ongoing? Stephanie Hans’ Variant Drives #1 Orders

Born and bred within the briar patch? James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera‘s Something Is Killing The Children put writer Boom Studios on the map in 2019 and remodeled into the business’s successor to The Walking Dead briefly order. Then this 12 months, they launched one other quickly rising, darkish, female-led hit with Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano‘s Grim.

Well, it seems just like the Big Four writer may need one other hit within the making in that very same Erica Slaughter/Jessica Harrow vein with the upcoming Briar #1 by Halt & Catch Fire‘s Christopher Cantwell and Germán García. The brutal fantasy collection guarantees to reply the query, “What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after… and instead had to save herself?”

And past Briar’s large eyes that remind us of Erica Slaughter and the signature weapon that evoke shades of Jessica Harrow, Briar additionally shares some similarities with one other best-selling Boom authentic collection, Dan Panosian and Giorgio Spalletta‘s Alice Ever After, which additionally took a well-recognized fairy story a reinvented it by persevering with the story in new and darkish methods.

Apparently, we’re not the one ones getting the identical vibes, as a result of we’re listening to that retailers have already positioned preliminary orders for Briar #1 which can be greater than their preliminary orders for Grim #1… and everyone knows what that led to.

And identical to Alice Ever After #1 and Grim #1, Boom dropped a shock variant cowl forward of Final Order Cutoff subsequent Monday, September fifth by Die artist Stephanie Hans alongside the beforehand unseen variant by Mercy‘s Mirka Andolfo. If Briar follows in its sister collection’ footsteps (which we predict it’s going to), count on orders to leap significantly forward of FOC and for Boom to have one other hit on their palms.

The questions that stay are whether or not or not Briar may also want a number of printings to fulfill demand, and whether or not or not Boom will promote the present four-issue collection to an ongoing like they did with Something Is Killing The Children?

If, or when, these questions are answered affirmatively, depend on Bleeding Cool to be the primary to report the information. Until then, it’s possible you’ll need to pre-order your copy of Briar #1 at your native comedian store so you are not chasing it later.