Steeple concludes, issue #5 out today
Today (Jan 15th) sees the release (in comic shops and on Comixology) of the final issue of Steeple from Dark Horse Comics, written and drawn by me, coloured by Sarah Stern, and lettered by Jim Campbell. A trade paperback collection is due in May.
This issue features another excellent variant cover, this time from Game of Thrones’ “Beautiful Deaths” artist Robert Ball.
I’d like to say thank you to everyone who’s been along for the ride on these five issues. Sorry to anyone who struggled to find later issues – if you’re in the UK, you can fill the gaps in your collection at Page 45.
And thank you too to everyone who has written to say they’d like to see the series continue. I would too! I have more Steeple stories ready to go, though I’m not yet sure when and where they’ll appear.
But as a thank-you to our loyal readers, all of whom were left with, let me be honest, a cruel cliffhanger, I’ve put together a four-page epilogue (that will also appear in the upcoming collection. Think of it both as a closing statement, and a bridge to future adventures. If you’ve not read the series, it’s a huge spoiler, so don’t click until you’ve read issues 1-5 first. But if you have… I hope you like it.
The best part of writing a series that feels like is works is the sudden opening up of new territory, like a video game map suddenly popping into view. I hope we get to go there eventually. So, without further ado…
Loved the epilogue! I don’t suppose there’s any simple way to release it on Comixology for completeness? Being in foreign climes, that’s my way of buying the old comic books these days.
Barring that – as an intro to a future series?
Cheers to your newest creation!
They’ll be included with the trade paperback collection on Comixology and in print. Glad you liked it!
The series was great, although 5 issues were way too short–they whooshed by too quickly. The epilogue was even better, and makes me wish for more. I hope we can return to the world of Steeple sometime soon. Thanks!
Excellent. Really excellent. Thanks, John.
I read the first issue, somehow forgot about it for a few months, and then binged the rest of it yesterday. Kind of glad that I did, becaust after the first two issues I couldn’t stop reading – so I avoided that frustrating wait between issues. But now I want more! More, sir, more!
I liked the epilogue, but felt empty at the book ending cliff hanger.
real depressing this ended so abruptly, really comfy cast and setting, sad it had no final issue but the epilogue is neat. but really she just converts to satanism forever?
Visit the new Steeple website, there’s a new 44-page story there and another to come in late August. Plenty of time for your questions to be answered.