{"id":58362,"date":"2026-06-05T23:37:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58362"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:37:46","slug":"image-comics-crowbound-1-exclusive-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=58362","title":{"rendered":"Image Comics&#8217; Crowbound #1 Exclusive Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen&#8217;s Descender is widely regarded as one of the best books to come out of Image Comics in the past couple of decades. We&#8217;re happy to report that the two are collaborating again on a new project called Crowbound, and it looks like another winner.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of Crowbound #1. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Crowbound #1 Preview Gallery<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Click through for an exclusive preview of the new Image Comics series Crowbound.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Here&#8217;s the official summary for Crowbound:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Margaret Atwood&#8217;s The Handmaid\u2019s Tale meets Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s The Road with echoes of Kill Bill and Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth when a noncompliant mother makes a dark pact with an ancient, violent Scarecrow Queen to stop a totalitarian government from taking her daughter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rose isn&#8217;t special. She works in the Factory just like everyone else\u2014a dark, sprawling monolithic structure that runs along the coast and cuts the world in two. All that&#8217;s left now are desolate settlements that exist in its shadow, made up of submerged villages, derelict woods, and deadly swamps. No one knows what&#8217;s left of the world on the other side&#8230;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>But when Rose&#8217;s young daughter Ava is violently taken from their shanty town home a year before she is meant to join the work force, Rose will come face-to-face with the surreal, harrowing forces outside the Factory&#8217;s walls\u2014including a terrifying figure called the Scarecrow Queen, who has an offer: one last chance to save her daughter, in exchange for her soul.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cCrowbound is the darkest book Dustin and I have done together but still filled with heart and hope,&#8221; Lemire tells IGN. &#8220;It\u2019s been rewarding building the expansive southern gothic sci-fi world of Crowbound and we can\u2019t wait to unleash it on readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Nguyen adds, &#8220;I&#8217;m very excited to explore this new world and new ways to tell a story with Jeff again, it&#8217;s always a great time when we get together like this. Hope everyone joins us for the adventures as they did on Descender and Little Monsters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Crowbound #1 will be released on September 2, 2026. You can preorder a copy at your local comic shop.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">For more, see our exclusive interview with Punisher vs. Spider-Man writer Dan Abnett and learn more about Batman&#8217;s mysterious new butler.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by<\/em><em> <\/em><u><em>following @jschedeen on BlueSky<\/em><\/u><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/image-comics-crowbound-reunites-the-beloved-creative-team-behind-descender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen&#8217;s Descender is widely regarded as one of the best books to come out of Image Comics in the past couple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[436,24232,4365,10395,3613],"class_list":["post-58362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-comics","tag-crowbound","tag-exclusive","tag-image","tag-preview","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}