With Crickets, Sammy Harkham begins a new regular comic book series with D+Q. This debut issue features Black Death, a new ongoing serial about a man shot full of arrows who is curiously not dead. With this first chapter, he finds himself lost in the woods, and becomes bound to a mysterious Golem. Together they encounter a father and son engaged in a grim task. Sammy Harkham is one of the most exciting new talents to have emerged in recent years, listed among "L.A.'s hottest names in comics" by the L.A. Times, as well as one of Utne's "comic book artists to watch out for." Crickets is being published simultaneously in several languages.
D&Q sent me #2, and I didn't get it. After reading #1, it makes more sense. It's about a guy who dies, comes back when near a golem, and now wanders through a forest. Issue 1 has them meeting a father and son who are going to bury the son's younger brother. Awkward relations and violence ensues. Not sure where it's going, and not interested enough to follow it in serial, but I might pick up a collection later.