Via CBR, Vault Comics have announced a new horror-western series called “The Rush,” by writer Si Spurrier (“Way of X”), artist Nathan Gooden and colorist Addison Duke (who worked together on “Barbaric”), letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (“The Blue Flame”), and designer Tim Daniel. The variant covers for the series will be provided by Martin Simmonds (“Department of Truth”).
The series will be set during the Klondike Gold Rush, and follow men traveling to a “blighted valley [in the “lawless wastes” of the northern Yukon territory], where giant spidertracks mark the snow and impossible guns roar in the night,” and a woman searching the haunted forests of Brokehoof for her child.
In the announcement, Spurrier stated that the project “lets me fuse together my most persistent preoccupations — myths, the horrors of human desire and the power of stories — with my hitherto unexplored geekiness for history.” Spurrier continued that there has been “hundreds of hours of research” put into the project, and this has allowed the team to use “the slang and syntax of the era, [reference] hundreds of photographs and first-hand accounts, [borrow] lives and names and faces, all to build a truly faithful picture of this astonishing time and place.”
Gooden stated that “I’m always drawn to the [western] genre, so when I first read the outline for ‘The Rush,’ I knew I had to be a part of it,” describing how he was “blown away by the amount of research” Spurrier had done, which made him realize the Gold Rush is “a time and place you think you know so well, until you start to dig deeper and realize there are worlds of information to uncover.”
“The Rush” #1’s release date has yet to be specified, though it is expected before the end of 2021. You can check out the full solicitation and Simmonds and Daniel’s variant covers for the first issue here.
