Wytches - Bringing scary back, YEAH!

Wytches - Issue 1

Wytches written by Scott Snyder, ink by Jock, colours (which are amazing) by Matt Hollinsworth and published by Image Comics and let me tell you Wytches is bringing scary back in an amazing way. A family recently moved and begins a new life after the mother was in an accident leaving her a paraplegic and their daughter, Sailor, was being mercilessly tormented (not bullied I mean seriously tormented) by a girl called Annie. Sailor is concerned that the other students in the new town will "know about her" as it turns out people think that she murdered Annie but in reality Annie was violently taken by "something".

NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE!!

Now to say Wytches is scary is an understatement it is downright terrifying sometimes. everything about this comic is spooky, the story is spooky, the art is spooky, the atmosphere is spooky, its just all around spooktacular. As the story continues there is a foreboding sense of doom that grows with each page.

DOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!

You really feel for the characters in the story especially poor Sailor who suffers from anxiety issues and is just trying to put the traumatic events of the tormenting, death threats and assualts by Annie and the whispers and accusations that followed her disappearance behind her. The father and mother, Charlie and Lucy are just parents struggling to make life as normal as possible for their troubled daughter. You feel intensly for Charlie as he struggles with trying to keep Sailor from having panic attacks and make their new home accessible to Lucy in her wheelchair.

The art is amazing and has a hazey dream like quality using a lot of dark blues, purples and greens. What makes the art particularly creepy is the fantastic use of a splatter effect used over all the pages. With dark sketched backgrounds showing the forests around the houses give them a really evil look and you can tell that something very very bad is lurking within them.

Don't go out to the woods today

Wytches first issue is fantastic and really grabs you from page one with its frightening art. You really feel for the characters and hope that they do make it through whatever nasty thing is waiting for them as the story continues.

I give Wytches 4 out of 5 Deers vomiting up their own tongues

I'm not even taking this out of context

Get Wytches here at Image Comics.