Given the glut of post apocalyptic tales littering the comic landscape, it takes something decidedly different to stand apart. The dead are up and walking? Seen it. Humanity is decimated and all hope is lost? Got the T-shirt. An ancient evil is resurrected and turning people into their own personal meat puppets? That’s…new. Creators Justin Jordan and Kyle Strahm look to put an end to your once peaceful slumber as they unleash their absolutely terrifying and totally awesome debut, Spread.
Issue #1 introduces is to the Spread and posits a humanity scattered and it’s future bleak. The Spread, vicious red monstrosities laden with more teeth than you can shake a toothbrush at, have taken over, infecting large swaths of the population and leaving a literal trail of bodies in their wake. The surviving humans aren’t exactly singing Kumbaya by the fire either, making the world of Spread a dangerous one. It takes a hard kind of person to survive such conditions, and such a man is No, the enigmatic and soft spoken protagonist. Looking a bit like Wolverine gone Super-Saiyan, No is a man of action–it’s immediately apparent that he’s well accustomed to his world and it’s horrors. A chance encounter ends with an intriguing (and perhaps world altering) find.
