Snow Angels

Milliken and Mae have never left The Trench — it’s all they’ve ever known. Carved into the surface of a frozen, seemingly endless wasteland, The Trench is home to the Trenchfolk, a sprawling community of survivors who cling to life inside its massive ice walls. For generations they have lived by the Three Testaments: You must never leave the Trench. The Trench provides. The Trench is endless. To question the rules is to question everything — and when twelve-year-old Milli and her younger sister Mae venture beyond the borders their people have never crossed, they awaken something that has been waiting in the dark for a very long time: the Snowman.

What follows is an action-packed story of survival, loss, and redemption as the sisters’ village is destroyed, their beliefs shattered, and their family forced to flee across the frozen river and into the Snowman’s hunting grounds. Jeff Lemire and Jock — two of the most acclaimed creators of their generation, collaborating for the very first time — turn the coming-of-age tale into a brutal, breathless chase across an eternal winter. Lemire’s gift for wounded, deeply human family drama meets Jock’s snow-spattered, cinematic page in a story that Publishers Weekly called “an appropriately chilling, action-packed, and stunningly drawn dystopian icecapade.”

Debuting in February 2021 as part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital comics, the 10-part series was an immediate sensation, earning the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic — the highest honor in the industry, as recognized by Comic-Con International. It later came to print through Dark Horse Comics, which released it in two acclaimed trade paperbacks before collecting the complete saga in an oversized Library Edition hardcover.

Jock handles art and colors with a signature shift from his usual shadows and grit to a blinding white palette of ice, wind, and fur, while veteran letterer Steve Wands shapes the story’s hushed dread and desperate screams. The result is a survival horror saga that reads like a great winter survival film crossed with a dark fable — perfect for fans of Lemire’s Sweet Tooth and Jock’s Batman: The Black Mirror, or anyone who loved The Thing, Snowpiercer, and The Road.

Pick up Snow Angels Volume 1 and Volume 2 from Dark Horse, or go straight for the complete Library Edition — one of the finest oversized hardcovers any publisher has put out, and the definitive way to experience Jock’s art at full scale.

Created by Jeff Lemire, Jock, and Steve Wands.