Will Briar Go Ongoing? Stephanie Hans’ Variant Drives #1 Orders

Born and bred within the briar patch? James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera‘s One thing Is Killing The Youngsters put writer Growth Studios on the map in 2019 and remodeled into the trade’s successor to The Strolling Lifeless in brief order. Then this yr, they launched one other quickly rising, darkish, female-led hit with Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano‘s Grim.

Properly, it seems to be just like the Large 4 writer might need one other hit within the making in that very same Erica Slaughter/Jessica Harrow vein with the upcoming Briar #1 by Halt & Catch Fireplace‘s Christopher Cantwell and Germán García. The brutal fantasy collection guarantees to reply the query, “What if Sleeping Magnificence by no means acquired her fortunately ever after… and as a substitute needed to save herself?”

And past Briar’s large eyes that remind us of Erica Slaughter and the signature weapon that evoke shades of Jessica Harrow, Briar additionally shares some similarities with one other best-selling Growth authentic collection, Dan Panosian and Giorgio Spalletta‘s Alice Ever After, which additionally took a well-known fairy story a reinvented it by persevering with the story in new and darkish methods.

Apparently, we’re not the one ones getting the identical vibes, as a result of we’re listening to that retailers have already positioned preliminary orders for Briar #1 which are greater than their preliminary orders for Grim #1… and everyone knows what that led to.

And identical to Alice Ever After #1 and Grim #1, Growth dropped a shock variant cowl forward of Last Order Cutoff subsequent Monday, September fifth by Die artist Stephanie Hans alongside the beforehand unseen variant by Mercy‘s Mirka Andolfo. If Briar follows in its sister collection’ footsteps (which we predict it is going to), anticipate orders to leap significantly forward of FOC and for Growth to have one other hit on their arms.

The questions that stay are whether or not or not Briar can even want a number of printings to satisfy demand, and whether or not or not Growth will promote the present four-issue collection to an ongoing like they did with One thing Is Killing The Youngsters?

If, or when, these questions are answered affirmatively, rely on Bleeding Cool to be the primary to report the information. Till then, you could wish to pre-order your copy of Briar #1 at your native comedian store so you are not chasing it later.