Currently funding on Kickstarter until Thursday April 4th, Wail is a horror comic from writer/artist Richard Fairgray, set to be published by the fine folks at Blue Fox Comics.

We’ve been lucky enough to take an early look at the 32-page full colour offering, and can comfortably say that you definitely need to be checking this one out.

The story is based around two friends, Beth and Jane, and features several key moments of their friendship over the course of their lives. I’m not going to delve too deeply into the specifics as I feel this is very much a comic that needs to be experienced firsthand, but the synopsis below from Blue Fox should tell you pretty much all you need to know:

People wonder why ghosts wail, but Beth knows the answer. It’s because she never told her friend how she felt. At the funeral, she whispered it to the casket, but knew it was too little too late.

One of the most striking parts of this comic is Fairgray’s artwork. In addition to being wonderfully expressive in terms of capturing the various emotional beats of Beth and Jane’s lives together, it also possesses a wonderfully ethereal quality that Fairgray describes as wanting to feel like a “double exposure”.

Themes of memory, grief and regret flow through the story, leading to a conclusion that, while perhaps not wholly unexpected, hits home powerfully and is likely to linger with the reader long after they’ve put this comic book down.

Blue Fox have a stellar track record on Kickstarter, with over 60 funded and fulfilled campaigns to their name so far. Backers have a variety of tiers and add-on options available to them, from physical and digital copies of Wail to offerings from their extensive back catalogue .

The campaign (CLICK HERE) will run until Thursday April 4th 2024, and is only a few quid away from being fully funded at the time this article was posted.

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