Horror writers, filmmakers and friends of FANGORIA David Ian McKendry (Glorious, All the Creatures Were Stirring) and Rebekah McKendry (Glorious, All the Creatures Were Stirring) are teaming up with Dark Horse Comics for their comic debut, Barstow.
Eisner Award-winner Tyler Jenkins (Hairball, Apache Delivery Service) will illustrate and color the series with Justin Birch (Heartpiercer, Dead Mall) lettering. Down below you can see the gloriously gory front cover of the first issue.
In Barstow:
At the center of the Mojave Desert, at the crossroads between hell and gone, lies Barstow. Agent Miranda Diaz is in this godforsaken land on the trail of a missing agent. He’s a man she’s never met, and yet her name was the only clue he left behind. Something dark…something demonic…lurks beneath this oddball town, but can Miranda unravel the mystery before all hell breaks loose?
An official statement from the McKendrys expresses their sheer excitement for the project (and ours too!):
“As avid horror comic book readers, we are elated to be working on our first comic book series with the legendary Dark Horse Comics! This whole experience has been a dream come true! We first had the idea for Barstow while traveling very late on Sunday evening from Las Vegas to Los Angeles.
We fell in love with the wild stretch of road between the two cities, especially the area surrounding the Mojave Desert and all the towns in between.
Though we used the name Barstow, our town in the series is an amalgam of all the quirky desert ‘burgs we have encountered in that area.Barstow gave us a chance to blend several of our favorite sub-genres including cosmic horror, dark comedy, religious horror, and neo-noir crime thrillers.”
Issue #1 (of 4) of Barstow hits stores on November 20, and is now available to pre-order from your local comic shop for $4.99!
