PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:

A killer is leaving a trail of bodies across the country… bodies without skin. The murders started on a Navajo reservation and lead all the way to Washington DC. Can reservation Officer Anne Adakai and FBI Agent Gregory Haworth stop the killer before it's too late?

(preview | official Skinwalker website)


AUTHORS' COMMENTS:

[Nunzio] This was the first thing we wrote in comics together - I wrote my issue of Detective Comics without Christina (though she did read it first and gave me plenty of notes). It wasn't supposed to be a comic when we first came up with the idea. It was going to be a feature script. We had the idea for Skinwalker as the first feature we'd write together, and Greg Rucka, one of our dearest friends in the world and a frequent collaborator with Oni Press, suggested instead that we pitch the story to Oni as a miniseries. We'd met Jamie Rich and Joe Nozemack at various cons (through Greg, of course) and had always thought we'd try to pitch them something someday. So we took a look at the concept we had and realized it would make a better miniseries than a film - the structure worked really well for comics, and the scares and creepiness translated exceptionally well to a black and white page. Once we wrote it, we then tried adapting it to film. But because we'd used a comics-only narrative device like dual narration, it proved much trickier as a film script. Guess it goes to show - never doubt Greg Rucka's instincts!

[Christina] I didn't grow up reading comics. I was in my twenties the first time I entered this new and strange world and it was because our friend Greg Rucka had just written Whiteout. I wanted to be supportive and so I read. And it was good. So I asked my husband what else I should read. You could see the excitement bubbling in his eyes as he handed me The Watchmen and the Giffen/DeMatteis run on the Justice League. Meanwhile, a friend of mine handed me Astro City and before I knew it I was hooked. So when the opportunity arose for us to do Skinwalker as a comic I was both excited and nervous. Excited to further explore this new medium I had discovered and nervous because I'd never done it before. The process was amazing. There were similarities to writing for television as they're both visual mediums. But I also learned that you got to play a bit of director as you described what the audience was seeing in each panel. I learned the importance of the page break which is something you never have to think about in film or TV. It was a challenge, but a good one. And I'm pleased to say that I can look back now on Skinwalker as the first thing we wrote in comics and say that I'm still very happy with how it came out even though we've learned so much since then. The one thing that makes me laugh is when I look at it now and realize how much text there is compared to the way we write now. We were so verbose! But we've learned how to work with the artist more and let the pictures do a lot of the talking.