Winterworld returns this Summer from IDW

The publisher brings Chuck Dixon’s Winterworld back to the racks, get ready to return to the post-apocalyptic snowball-Earth.

WINTERWORLD #1 picks up the story of a savvy trade rider, Scully, and Wynn, a young woman long separated from her family. Together they move through a bleak and frozen future in search of Wynn’s parents encountering the brutality of a world where the coldest place on Earth is the human heart.

Chances are, you don’t remember Winterworld. Don’t feel bad about it, because I don’t either and I was very much reading comics in the late ’80s when the book completed its three issue mini-series run. That said, from what I’ve seen while researching this news piece about it, I dig it.

The premise is super unique, with a frozen future-Earth being as much of a post-apocalyptic setting as anything after a nuclear bomb blast or an asteroid impact. Being a mini-series though, the book ran its course and that was that. Now fast-forward almost thirty years and author Chuck Dixon (who’s been a loooong time DC comics writer and also wrote some of the greatest Punisher stories on paper for Marvel) finds himself revisiting the characters and setting that he thought he’d left way behind.

“Returning to this story is something I never wanted to attempt unless it could be done right,” says Dixon, “IDW provided the conditions to continue Scully and Wynn’s story in a way that is true to Jorge’s (Zaffino, co-creator of Winterworld – ed) and my vision. Butch is just the start of a terrific slate of artists for the series.”

And speaking of Butch Guice, the artist has just about worked on every major character the superhero has in its pantheon including the likes of Captain America and the Man of Steel himself, Superman. He’s got nothing but praise for Dixon either, as his appreciation for the scribe’s penchant for hard-hitting tales is paramount.

“Chuck is one of my favorite collaborators,” says Guice, “I never turn down a chance to work with the guy. No one writes hard nosed brutal action tales like Chuck Dixon, and it doesn’t get more brutal than Winterworld.”

With that kind of setup, who wouldn’t be excited to have a look at Winterworld. The book sounds incredible original and is just the kind of thing to shake-up the usual superhero, mystical, and sci-fi tales that are the main bread and butter of the industry. Personally, I can’t wait to read it.

Look for Winterworld to hit comic shops this Summer from IDW. Now to see if I can find those old issues somewhere… think they’re available digitally?