Image Comics has announced Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen will reunite on Crowbound, a dark, ongoing fantasy series beginning March 2026.
The comic follows Rose, a mother who embarks on a quest to rescue her kidnapped daughter, forcing her to brave “a haunted, post-apocalyptic dreamscape crawling with strange creatures, forgotten gods, and the twisted remains of the old world.”
The official synopsis reads,
At thirteen, every child begins their life inside The Factory—a vast, monolithic superstructure that cleaves the world in two—pulling levers, pushing buttons, and never knowing why. But Ava is a beautiful girl, and the sinister Factory Men decide hers will be a fate of ‘special service’ up the coast. Left reeling from their violent separation, her mother, Rose, embarks on a desperate rescue attempt when she strikes an uncertain bargain with the eerie, otherworldly Scarecrow Queen…
Lemire states, “Crowbound has been a project Dustin and I have been developing for several years, and we are incredibly excited to finally unleash it. This is our next major collaboration, something huge in scope like Descender was, but this story will also break uncharted territory for us creatively.
“If Descender was a sprawling space opera, then Crowbound is a sprawling dark fantasy revenge saga filled with heart, emotion, and rage, all rendered in the way only Dustin Nguyen can,” he continues.
The book marks Lemire’s fourth project with Nguyen at Image, following Descender (2015-18), Ascender (2019-21), and Little Monsters (2022-23); the pair also worked together on Black Hammer: Giant-Sized Annual (2017), and at DC on two Robin & Batman series (2022-25).
“Not only am I excited to explore this entirely new world with Jeff, but also excited to discover entirely new ways to tell stories and an exciting new direction for my art on this next book as well—this happens every time I collaborate with Jeff,” says Nguyen.
The creative team will have more to say about the series at Image’s New York Comic Con panel “The Future of Comics” on Thursday at 2 p.m. ET in North-Room 408.
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