Dark Places: Wildfire #1 Review: Scott Snyder Makes Readers Feel the Burn
Warning: Spoilers for Dark Places: Wildfire #1!
Award-winning writer Scott Snyder has worked on numerous unique and inventive comic projects outside of his many critically acclaimed superhero runs at DC Comics, and now he’s truly outdone himself with IDW Publishing's Dark Places: Wildfire #1, the first issue in a chilling anthology series focusing on self-contained stories about characters committing dark deeds with even darker motives.
The first issue to release under IDW Publishing’s IDW Originals banner, Dark Places: Wildfire #1, written by Scott Snyder and illustrated by Hayden Sherman, follows Crew 513, a group of five female convicts from California’s Forestry Firefighter Program, as they work towards eliminate a raging fire that, after six weeks of burning, shows no signs of stopping. Set against the backdrop of the smoldering hills of California, Dark Places: Wildfire #1 immediately hits the ground running with a story that expertly pulls readers along in a way that’s classic Scott Snyder.
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Full of rich character-driven moments, short glimpses of scarred pasts, and the ever-looming threat that is the wildfire, Snyder not only gives readers a unique setting in which to tell a story but along with a quintet of realistic and intriguing characters, delivers one doozy of a hook on top of it. Detailing a plan that would see Crew 513 abandon their firefighting duties to hunt riches within a nearby mansion set to burn up in the encroaching flames, Snyder sets up a ticking time bomb of a heist story that will either break Crew 513 free from their shackled lives or damn them to the very flames they’re trying to fight.
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