Where Black Stars Rise

In Where Black Stars Rise, a 2022 one-shot from Tor Books, a woman named Nadia returns to her hometown in Nova Scotia to confront a past she left behind, only to find that the town's myths and her own fractured memories are bleeding into one another. Written by Jordan Hart and illustrated by David Boller, this single issue uses folk horror and quiet, coastal dread to explore grief, identity, and the stories we tell ourselves. It matters as a compact, atmospheric debut that proves a complete narrative can be told in a single comic.