Sleeping Beauty takes on the horror genre with Boom! Studios new release Briar. Post-apocalyptic backdrop with many horrifying elements makes this the perfect book for the Halloween season.
Written by Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, The United States of Captain America, Halt and Catch Fire) and illustrated by rising artist Germán Garcia (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land), Briar #1 hit your local comic book shop on September 21, 2022.
What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after… and instead had to save herself? Set in a brutal fantasy world that time forgot, this isn’t the fairy tale you know! A reimagining of a classic tale as an epic dark fantasy adventure.
Cantwell is man behind an amazing Iron Man run at Marvel Comics and brings his outstanding talent to the horror side of things with his co-creation with Garcia. The creative team does a wonderful job with fantasy world-building and mixing just the right about to horror into the story.
Garcia art style in Briar gives you the feel of a vintage fairytale, but kicks it up a notch. Taking happily ever after story and makes it dark and gritty. Garcia’s work on Briar Rose, this version of the fable’s cursed princess, reminds us of Erica Slaughter of Something Is Killing The Children. Cantwell and Garcia take what was once familiar and pushes it to the unfamiliar.
In a world of new horror books hitting the shelves, Briar will stand out amongst the titles and is definitely worth the read.
Keep an eye out for the second issue in this series coming to your local comic book shop on November 30, 2022.
