Shadow Roads

Shadow Roads is an ongoing comics series created by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt with artist A.C. Zamudio and published by Oni Press.

Conception
Shadow Roads had been in development several years before it's debut, going back at least as far as the release of The Sixth Gun: Valley of Death miniseries in 2015 (also drawn by A.C. Zamudio). Co-creator Brian Hurtt described the series as a reaction to an abundance of characters and ideas he and Cullen Bunn didn't have time to explore in The Sixth Gun. Shadow Roads gave them an opportunity to return to the sandbox of the Sixth Gun world without being constrained by the mythology of the Six. It also opened up the possibility of telling stories set outside the American West—Shadow Roads is meant to be more globe-trotting than its predecessor.

Unlike The Sixth Gun, Shadow Roads was not designed with a long-term story in mind. Bunn and Hurtt are purposefully tackling the series one or two arcs at a time. They want to leave the series open to go any direction.

Shadow Roads has some stylistic differences from its predecessor, most notably the series does not have a narrator. Since the series jumps around from place to place much more, Shadow Roads uses location boxes to establish scenes. While The Sixth Gun had been primarily focused on Drake Sinclair and Becky Montcrief, Shadow Roads is much more of an ensemble story. As the series progresses, the aim is juggle around the characters into different configurations and explore how they play off of one another.

Stories

 * The Crossroads (#1–5, 2018)
 * The New World (#6–7, 2019)
 * Birthright (#8–10, 2019–2020)