By Zack Quaintance — Today it is our absolute honor to have an exclusive preview of The Blue Flame #4. Due out this Wednesday, August 25, this book marks the fourth chapter in what has so far been the best superhero comic book of the year. Although, as regular readers of the series well know, this is not your typical superhero story, far from it.

The Blue Flame is a melding of superhero and sci-fi tropes of the highest order with a stark story of a mass shooting and the subsequent survivors guilt. There’s a lot not said in this book, not yet anyway, and it’s all the better for it. Part of what makes this series so excellent and intriguing is the masterful use of tone, both within writer Christopher Cantwell’s scripting and artist Adam Gorham’s linework, colored here by Kurt Michael Russell and lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. Publisher Vault Comics has given us 10 exclusive pages from the book to unveil here.

You can find this full preview of The Blue Flame #4 below, with an easy-to-read gallery of all the pages at the bottom…enjoy!

Exclusive Preview: The Blue Flame #4 from Vault Comics

The Blue Flame #4
Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Adam Gorham
Colorist: Kurt Michael Russell
Letterer: Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Designer: Tim Daniel
Cover A: Adam Gorham
Cover B: Yoshi Yoshitani
On Sale: 8/25/2021
Synopsis: Sam spirals deeper into darkness while the Blue Flame chooses to finally face the tragedy of his life on Earth. It remains to be seen if either of them will ever recover, and if they can still be heroes. As they grapple with their identities, Sam searches his soul and seeks relief in the arms of someone who may in fact be an adversary, while the Flame finds an ally in someone he thought was working against him.
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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.