![]() ![]() What follows is a tale of remarkably visceral terror, helped along by Jock’s talent for drawing unsettlingly amorphous figures and by Snyder’s deeply personal connection to the story. ![]() They move to a small town and stumble upon the town’s history with tall, grotesque, forest-dwelling creatures called wytches (the y being crucial - it turns out that witches are merely humans who have involved themselves with wytches, though I won’t spoil the details). It follows the travails of the Rooks, a family struggling with alcohol abuse, disability, and - in the case of their daughter, Sailor - crippling anxiety issues. Wytches is a creator-owned horror series Snyder began alongside the mononymous artist Jock last year for indie publisher Image Comics, and its first volume comes out in a collected edition this week. But he’s never done anything quite like Wytches. He only started writing in the medium in 2009, after a few years of publishing prose fiction, and is now one of its biggest stars: He’s been writing Batman since 2011 and regularly topping sales charts with it he’s won the industry’s top awards for his series American Vampire and he’s garnered massive acclaim for everything from superhero titles like Superman Unchained to sci-fi thrillers like The Wake. Scott Snyder has had one of the faster rises to fame in recent comics history, and he shows no sign of slowing down. Photo: Courtesy of Scott Snyder Jock/Image Comics ![]()
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