East of West #1 Sells Out
EAST OF WEST #1 SELLS OUT
First issue of Hickman/Dragotta series gets new printing
EAST OF WEST #1, the premiere issue of the apocalyptic Western by Jonathan Hickman (THE MANHATTAN PROJECTS) andNick Dragotta, has sold out the same day as its release on March 27. It will receive a second printing (Diamond Comics code FEB138443), going on shelves in stores on April 24, the same day as EAST OF WEST #2.
The best-selling debut of Hickman-penned Image Comics series to date, EAST OF WEST #1 introduces readers to a world on the verge of collapse where incarnations of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse roam a sprawling landscape and all signs point to an inglorious end.
In contrast to the spiraling fate of humankind depicted in its pages, the beginning of EAST OF WEST has been a critical triumph:
"East of West is astonishing. Something that may reset the bar by which all other comics are tested.”
- Crave Online (10/10 review)
"Hickman accomplishes here what other writers might spend a whole series building up, which leaves the door wide open for this imaginative story to go east and west and then north and south, to boot.”
- IGN
"The series is still new, but I wonder whether it's a glimpse at our nation's sins made manifest. A bald depiction of the scarlet letter forever branded on America, not for adultery, but for human bondage and derision. Or maybe it's just a cool, nihilistic revenge saga.”
- iFanboy (Pick of the Week)
"...this is a comic that could just possibly blow your mind.”
- Comic Vine (5/5-star review)