The Spire | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Boom! Studios |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
No. of issues | 8 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Simon Spurrier |
Artist(s) | Jeff Stokely |
Letterer(s) | Steve Wands |
Colorist(s) | André May |
The Spire is an American weird fantasy / mystery [1] comics series written by Simon Spurrier and drawn by Jeff Stokely. The eight-issue limited series [2] has been published since 2015 by Boom! Studios. The series was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2016 for “Best Limited Series”.
It is set in the titular Spire, a vast city in the middle of a deadly wasteland, locked in war with religious zealots and riven by the tension between its rulers and the underclass of "Sculpted", humans who have been hybridized with nonhuman biology. [3] The protagonist is Shå, the city's captain of police, who investigates a series of murders of aristocrats at a time when a new Baroness is crowned and the city's internal and external conflicts are about to come to a head.
Spurrier described the recipe for the series as "one part ' Mad Max,' one part ' Bladerunner,' one part ' Dark Crystal,' one part nutfuck insanity". [3] Paste Magazine characterized the "beguiling" comic as inspired by China Miéville's Bas-Lag and Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris in creating a world where "the fantastical aspects don’t mitigate the worst aspects of human nature". [4]
The Spire | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | Boom! Studios |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
No. of issues | 8 |
Creative team | |
Written by | Simon Spurrier |
Artist(s) | Jeff Stokely |
Letterer(s) | Steve Wands |
Colorist(s) | André May |
The Spire is an American weird fantasy / mystery [1] comics series written by Simon Spurrier and drawn by Jeff Stokely. The eight-issue limited series [2] has been published since 2015 by Boom! Studios. The series was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2016 for “Best Limited Series”.
It is set in the titular Spire, a vast city in the middle of a deadly wasteland, locked in war with religious zealots and riven by the tension between its rulers and the underclass of "Sculpted", humans who have been hybridized with nonhuman biology. [3] The protagonist is Shå, the city's captain of police, who investigates a series of murders of aristocrats at a time when a new Baroness is crowned and the city's internal and external conflicts are about to come to a head.
Spurrier described the recipe for the series as "one part ' Mad Max,' one part ' Bladerunner,' one part ' Dark Crystal,' one part nutfuck insanity". [3] Paste Magazine characterized the "beguiling" comic as inspired by China Miéville's Bas-Lag and Jeff VanderMeer's Ambergris in creating a world where "the fantastical aspects don’t mitigate the worst aspects of human nature". [4]