Crowbound Volume 1 - by Jeff Lemire (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan's Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.

ALL IS DARK. BUT ALL IS NOT LOST...

Rose isn't special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else -- a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that's left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what's left of the world on the other side...

But when Rose's young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face to face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory's walls -- including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.

Part post-apocalyptic neo-Western, part southern gothic, part dark fantasy, Crowbound spins a heart-wrenching and violent story about mortality, holding onto hope in the darkest of worlds and the bonds that make us human.

Collects issues #1-5.

About the Author

Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.

Dustin Nguyen has worked in the comic industry since 2000, providing concept art and character design in addition to being a talented sequential artist in his own right. His projects include Descender and Ascender with Jeff Lemire.