As a result, any high level discussion of the state of the world or what brought about the catastrophic drop in temparature is off the table. Like Walking Dead, this is the apocalypse on a micro level: Scully and Wynn are the readers’ point-of-view characters, and the story is told from their perspective. The first issue backs up that promise, ably introducing new readers to Scully and Wynn (and their pet badger Rah-Rah), and their relationship with one another (described as being somewhere between father/daughter and brother/sister). While the concept clearly speaks to the ongoing debate regarding climate change, Dixon is careful to point it in the introductory letters page (yes, this series has an old-fashioned letters page) that the concept of WinterWorld came about long before the current dialogue (it was more inspired by the 80s-era fear of post-war nuclear winter than the current climate change concerns), and while he will play with some elements of that dialogue in the course of the series, his chief concern is to write an entertaining, thrilling story and not a political diatribe.

It is a high concept story of a world overtaken by ice, in which the central characters, Scully and Wynn, must fight each day to survive as they cross the frozen Caribbean in search of Wynn’s homeland.

A sequel by Dixon and Zaffino was created for Eclipse, but while it saw print in Europe, it was never published in the US, and the concept languished until Dixon revived it for IDW. WinterWorld, is a continuation of a three issue series created by Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffino for Eclipse Comics, way back in 1987. Colors by Diego Rodriguez, Letters by Robbie Robbins

Winterworld by Chuck Dixon