Joe Hill knows his way around a comic book. So do the folks at IDW. The two have famously collaborated on a number of projects, past, present, and future, including the acclaimed Locke & Key. Now, the acclaimed author and the maverick comics publisher are teaming up once again for an all new series: Dying Is Easy. And they've done a bang-up job so far. Decidedly different from the magical mayhem of Locke & Key, Dying Is Easy centers on Syd “Shit-Talk” Homes, a disgraced ex-cop, bitter stand-up comic and wanted felon who finds himself …

Joe Hill has a murder mystery for you to solve in his new IDW comic, Dying Is Easy. The first issue in the five-part miniseries arrives this Wednesday, December 11th with a story that follows Syd “Shit-Talk” Homes, a disgraced ex-cop, bitter stand-up comic and wanted felon. And it's our pleasure to not only give you an exclusive look at an atmospheric page from the comic's first issue--with illustrations provided by the visually dynamic Martin Simmonds--but insight from Hill himself! We had a chance to chat with Hill about the inception of …