Winter City
Written by Patrick Purcell and Carl Purcell
Art and Color by Pablo Verdugo Munoz and David Aravena Riquelme
Winter City Productions
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Cover Price: $1.99

Winter City is the physical representation of the word “gritty.” When comics like Spawn and Preacher were hitting shelves, they were always described as “dark,” “violent,” and of course “gritty.” Winter City is a love letter to those comics that set the bar for the dark places comics could take us. For their time, Spawn and Preacher shocked readers with their darkness. Now in 2012, as readers, we have become desensitized to acts of violence carried out on comic panels. It takes completely atrocious brutality to provoke a reaction from Generation Y. Winter City‘s need to emulate classic “gritty” comics, is its biggest flaw. For a comic that clearly wants to be seen as hyper-violent and shocking, Winter City is surprisingly tame.