Image Comics has announced that Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen will reunite for Crowbound, a dark ongoing fantasy series beginning in March 2026.
The comic tells the story of a mother, Rose, who goes on a journey to rescue her kidnapped daughter, forcing her to confront “a haunted, post-apocalyptic dream world crawling with strange creatures, forgotten gods, and the twisted remains of the old world.”
The official synopsis reads:
At the age of 13, every child begins a life in The Factory, a vast monolithic superstructure that splits the world in two, pulling levers and pushing buttons without knowing why. But Eva is a beautiful girl, and the evil factory guys decided that she would be destined for “special service” on the coast. Reeling from a violent separation, mother Rose embarks on a desperate rescue mission, making a shady deal with the creepy, otherworldly Scarecrow Queen…
“Crowbound has been a project that Dustin and I have been developing for several years, and we’re so excited to finally unleash it,” said Lemire. “This is our next big collaboration, and while it’s huge on the scale of Descender, this story also opens up uncharted territory for us creatively.”
“If ‘Descenders’ was a vast space opera, ‘Crowbound’ is a vast dark fantasy revenge story filled with heart, emotion and anger, all of which is expressed in a way that only Dustin Nguyen can.”
The book is Lemire’s fourth project with Image’s Nguyen, following Descender (2015-18), Ascender (2019-21), and Little Monsters (2022-23). The two also co-starred in “Black Hammer: Giant-Size Annual” (2017) and two DC “Robin & Batman” series (2022-25).
“I’m not only excited to explore this whole new world with Jeff, but I’m also excited to discover entirely new ways to tell stories and exciting new directions for my art in my next book, which happens every time I collaborate with Jeff,” says Nguyen.
The creative team will talk more about the series at Image’s New York Comic Con panel “The Future of Comics” on Thursday at 2pm ET in North Room 408.
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