As editor of the ground-breaking Kramers Ergot and cartoonist behind the acclaimed Poor Sailor, Sammy Harkham is one of the most exciting new talents to have emerged in recent years. With Crickets, Harkham begins a new regular comic book series with Drawn & Quarterly: this debut issue features Black Death, a new ongoing serial about a man shot full of arrows who's curiously not dead. With this first chapter, he finds himself lost in the woods, and becomes bound to a mysterious Golem. Together they encounter a father and son engaged in a grim task. Also offered in Previews is Drawn & Quarterly Showcase #3, featuring a major 30 page story by Harkham, an excellent companion to Crickets # 1.