Spooky Season is Back in Scott Snyder’s ‘Wytches: Bad Egg’

Writer: Scott Snyder / Artist: Jock / Image Comics Back in 2014, something strange and amazing went down. One of the best comic book writers in the biz dropped a spooky little graphic novel that took the comic industry by surprise. But don’t get it twisted, Wytches doesn’t feature women in pointy hats, reciting words over a cauldron, jumping on brooms, or waving wands. These wytches burrow deep down in the earth, make deals with humans, and change cures to diseases for ripe children to devour. Yeaaahhh, fam. Wytches is an updated take on the mythology, carefully crafted by Scott Snyder and Jock, who have been pleasing fans for years with their work on Batman and Detective Comics. However, this was a completely different medium for the duo. They are going full horror tilt. Yet, they somehow managed to find themselves in a genre that wasn’t completely entrenched in horror, but is still completely frightening and spooky. They managed to create a story that was just as psychologically taxing as it was horrifying. Wytches: Bad Egg is the perfect Halloween story for those that love a good scare and an even better mind fuck.

This new entry into the Wytches mythos was released in small doses over the last couple of years, and they finally decided to put all the pieces together and share it with the masses, properly. Bad Egg is a bit of a prequel to the origin of Wytches and follows a new character named Sebastian and his journey to evil enlightenment. Just like Sailor in Volume 1, S…