After reading the Scott Snyder-penned Canary mini-series, I thought I’d check out another one of his creator owned, original series.

Though best known for an excellent run on Batman, which introduced The Court of Owls and made Joker more horrifying than he’d been in years (perhaps scarier than ever before), for me, Snyder’s work on numerous original series is of far greater interest.

It’s also the case that I like to check out non-mainstream, original series, not just Snyder’s but those by any creators, with as little information going in as possible, so as to be surprised by the story.

It’s definitely fair to say that Duck and Cover #1 surprised me quite a bit.

I knew absolutely nothing about it beyond the cover and title that suggested a story about, perhaps, a survivor of an atomic bomb explosion.

It’s an awful lot more than that, though, kicking off with a pretty intense, emotionally charged coming of age drama (albeit one with its own horror and a not insignificant amount of political and social commentary), before becoming something else entirely as the central group of kids grow up.

Yes, a bomb drops, as the title and cover do give away.

To say more would be too much, however, suffice to say that you won’t predict where this story ends up.

After reading this issue, it’s fair to say that I don’t know where this story is necessarily going, either.

Which is great; I’m truly compelled to keep reading and will definitely be checking out the second issue as soon as I can; so yes, that’s a big recommendation for me that you should absolutely check out Duck and Cover #1.

Handily, Duck and Cover #1 is free if you have Amazon Prime, as it’s part of their Prime Reading offering. So it’s easily accessible and, in the right circumstances, won’t cost you any extra cash to get your hands on it.

Can’t say fairer than that, right?