IDW Publishing kick𝐆s off its new line of origina🧸l content in July, starting with the anthology series Dark Spacesܫ. Writer Scott Snyder is spearheading the project, which will explore the choices people make when they're placed in impossible sit💝uations. First in the series is Dark Spaces: Wildfire, a five-part heist story with art by Hayden Sherman, colors by Ronda Pattison, and letters by Deron Bennett.
Dark Spaces: Wildfire is set six weeks into the historic Arroyo fire in California, as it's being fought by a crew of women inmates from a local prison. The newest recruit, who's serving time for white-collar crime, convinces the rest of the squad to raid a former associate's nearby abandoned mansion for cash and pawnable items. Each character is then faced with a moral dilemm🌜a: stay the course or risk everything.
"I hope [readers] gain a❀n appreciation for the real people that spend time in this real-life Dark Space. Inmate firefighters are out there doing incredible work helping keep wildfires at bay as best they can, and I didn’t have any idea that was the case until Scott brought this story to me," artist Hayden Sherman tells Newsarama. "I've learned a lot about it all since then and I hope readers will be moved to leaꦇrn more as well. And to any wildfire firefighters who may read it, I hope I'll have done a worthy job of depicting your day-to-day!"
Ahead of the release of Dark Spaces: Wildfire #1 in July, Newsarama readers can take a sneak peek at unlet💖tered pages from the issue, seen below.
"There’s a two-pag🦩e spread where I break down a character's routine into incrementally smaller and smaller panels, and then blow it back up again that I'm very pleased with. It's two pages of seemingly hundreds of panels that I hope come together to tell the reader something interesting about the character and the seemingly endless nature of routine," Sherman says.
They also note their favorite moment: "Early on there's a page where our main character coughs that I really love! It's not the biggest moment, but that's the page where the style and approach of this book fully clicked into pla💛ce for me. I still feel it when I see the page: 'This is it, this is the book!'"
Dark Spaces: Wildfire #1 will go on sale July 13.
IDW Publishing will release eight additional titles in its first wave of creator-owned books, including this summer's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:TRVE KVLT.
Samantha Puc (she/they) is an editor at Newsarama and an avid comics fan. Their writing has been featured on Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., The Beat, The Mary Sue, and elsewhere. She is currently pursuing a Master 🙈of Fine Arts degree in creative noꦆnfiction at The New School.
