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Briar #1 Orders Doubled At FOC To 58,000 After Creator Praise

Published Sun, 11 Sep 2022 08:58:12 -0500

As Bleeding Cool reported, Boom Studios latest creator-owned project, Briar #1, had considerable momentum heading into Final Order Cutoff last Monday, in large part thanks to the chorus of praise from comic creators. Excitement and accolades for Christopher Cantwell and Gérman García's apocalyptic fantasy continued to roll in even after our article ran including the trio of Image creators – What's The Furthest Place From Here? writer Matthew Rosenberg, That Texas Blood writer Chris Cordon, and Radiant Red's David LaFuente.

Also on FOC today is the first issue of BRIAR from the brilliant @ifyoucantwell and one of my current favorite artists in comics @GermanGarciaArt. A smart, gorgeous, & gritty take on a familiar story. Don't sleep on this one.

Call your local comic shop today and reserve a copy. pic.twitter.com/gN1oFTDHaB

— Matthew Rosenberg (@AshcanPress) September 5, 2022

BRIAR by @ifyoucantwell, @GermanGarciaArt, Matheus Lopes, & @andworlddesign is a gorgeously rendered fairy tale. Well, it's a fairy tale, sure, but one that's gone to HELL. FOC is TOMORROW so make sure to call your LCS & order it so I can read it forever. Please. And thank you. pic.twitter.com/2WNnJ9ALqX

— Chris Condon (@ChristophCondon) September 5, 2022

Fanart WIP
Today is the final order cutoff for @GermanGarciaArt 's new book BRIAR and I can't recommend it enough.
It's written by @ifyoucantwell and colored by @_matlopes_ , and published by @boomstudios pic.twitter.com/svzShWVIXL

— David Lafuente 💀 (@Lafuente_RIP) September 5, 2022

From what we're hearing, that positive buzz turned into retailer orders doubling from their initial quantities at FOC and made the recently revealed Stephanie Hans variant the top advanced-reordered comic of the week according to Comichron.

A variant of @boomstudios' BRIAR #1 by @ifyoucantwell and @GermanGarciaArt was the #1 advance-reordered comic book from Diamond last week. NIGHT OF THE GHOUL #1 from @DarkHorseComics placed second. BERSERK VOL. 1 was the top reorder item.
September charts: https://t.co/wQti9c4QZK pic.twitter.com/Nhq3MS09RB

— Comichron.com (@comichron) September 7, 2022

Fittingly, the top advance-reordered softcover was the first collection of the Boom series whose footsteps Briar is trying to follow in, Stephanie Phillips and Flaviano's Grim. Will Briar continue to do so with a rapid sellout and multiple printings to meet demand? Or perhaps get promoted to an ongoing series?

Only time will tell, and in the meantime, Boom's next creator-owned launch, The Approach by Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley, and Jesús Hervás is up on FOC this coming Monday, 12th of September . And not too far after that the series that may well eclipse both Grim and Briar, Simon Spurrier and Charlie Adlard's Damn Them All…

BRIAR #1 (OF 4) CVR A GARCIA
BOOM! STUDIOS
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(W) Christopher Cantwell (A/CA) German Garcia
What if Sleeping Beauty never got her happily ever after… and instead had to save herself? Set in a brutal fantasy world that time forgot, this isn't the fairy tale you know! Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man, The United States of Captain America, Halt and Catch Fire) and rising artist Germán Garc a (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land) reimagine the classic tale as an epic dark fantasy adventure.In Shops: Sep 28, 2022
SRP: $4.99

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