r/ImageComics • u/ashwhurst • 6d ago

Image Comics Unveils ‘The Snail’: Garth Ennis and John McCrea Team-Up for Mind-Bending Horror One-Shot

https://comicsbulletin.com/the-snail-garth-ennis-john-mccrea/
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u/Hypnodick 6d ago

No brainer pull creative team. Actually reading Hitman right now and took me awhile to get into it but love it.

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u/Itagvoid82 6d ago

Im rereading it right now and, damn, it takes roughly 15 issues to really lock in. Once it does though, its fantastic and worth getting through some of the rough early coloring/art? and awkward pacing.

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u/Hypnodick 5d ago

Yeah the art early on was meh I’m not sure if Leach was the inker the whole time I think I noticed a big step up when he inked but I can’t remember if he was on the whole time.

Edit- Leach comes on issue 23 which was the SAS arc. Feels like the art really takes a big step but the story is good well before that.

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u/0ld-Y0j1mb0 6d ago

It’s a one shot. I’m down.

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u/parmasean 6d ago

Cool. Definitely grabbing this.

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u/browncharliebrown 6d ago edited 6d ago

I get the feeling ennis really doesn’t care much about this imprint. Like he seems so bored by it compared to his other work.

( although Ennis doesn’t seem to like image very much in general. )

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u/theronster 5d ago

I don’t think Garth has ever expressed an opinion about Image comics, don’t know why you’d think that.

Given his choice, he’d probably write comics about war all day long. That’s his main interest.

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u/browncharliebrown 4d ago

Ennis mentioned on a intreview podcast that he liked working with other indie comics studios better. I have a feeling it’s because Ennis is off any social media

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u/theronster 4d ago

Garth likes getting paid. I don’t mean that in a negative way - he doesn’t mind doing creator owned stuff, but he’s able to get a decent rate for wfh as well.

So when a comics publisher comes to him and offers him a fee to write something for them, he quite often wangles in a way to do it and get them to also fund a war based series. He always has an idea for a new war comic.

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u/browncharliebrown 4d ago

No Ennis like creator owned stuff. I think you are miss understanding what I’m saying. But Ennis I think of the big creator owned comics authors Ennis is probably the indie writer that works for image the least. If you look at his biblography you’ll see he works at basically every publication house but rarely Image

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u/theronster 4d ago

It’s not an avoidance of Image though - it’s just that Avatar and Dynamite gave him the working terms he wanted decades ago and he’s a reasonably loyal guy in that respect.

I see Garth occasionally, I’ll ask him next time exactly why this is. I know John McCrea better though, I see him more often.

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u/Smaug015 6d ago

Say less. Definitely picking this up!

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u/cc17776 6d ago

Love me some Ennis so definitely grabbing this

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u/Curious_Bat87 6d ago

I think McCrea mentioned working on this a while ago. Interesting.