WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for We Have Demons #1, on sale now from ComiXology Originals.

One of the most celebrated comic book creator collaborative teams in the industry today is Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, with the duo having steadily worked together for the past decade on various, high-profile projects for DC Comics. The two have since reunited for their first creator-owned collaboration together with the new ComiXology Originals series We Have Demons, effectively bringing Snyder's creator-owned publishing imprint Best Jackett Press to the digital comics platform. And while certainly a wholly original story in its own right, blending hidden history and small-town theology with supernatural terror, the new series has more than passing thematic similarities to Snyder and Capullo's previous collaborations, the DC crossover events Dark Nights: Metal and its recently concluded follow-up Dark Nights: Death Metal.

We Have Demons follows a young woman named Lam whose father was a small-town preacher deep in Florida, with some dark, deep secrets of his own. Returning home after the death of her father, Lam discovers he secretly took part in a shadow war against humans and demons on Earth that ultimately cost him his life against the hellish monsters. And at the heart of this brutal conflict with apocalyptic stakes are two primordial substances that embody the light and dark, dubbed Halo and Horn, respectively, that has been scattered throughout the Earth, empowering the monsters and those that would oppose them.

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Metal and Death Metal revolved around the idea that mythical metals had existed in the DC Universe all along, such as the legendary Nth Metal that Hawkman and Hawkwoman used to power their weapons and high-flying wings. Combined, these metals opened a portal to the Dark Multiverse, a raw, primordial realm where universes were forged and the villainous Batman Who Laughs lurked, seizing the opportunity to invade the DCU and reshape it in his fiendish image. And just as Death Metal involved an antagonist who appeared to be darkness personified, so did Snyder's inaugural Best Jackett title, Nocterra, co-created with Tony S. Daniel in the form of the sinister Blacktop Bill.

While Death Metal and Nocterra placed the primordial elements and darkness-empowered antagonist front and center, We Have Demons appears to be more focused on keeping this conflict to the shadows, at least for now. According to Snyder, the substances in We Have Demons are the first elements ever created, on a subatomic level and bearing the atomic number of zero after being formed by the Big Bang at the birth of the universe. And with the secret society that Lam's father belonged to waging war for centuries, Lamassu may have stumbled in an ancient conspiracy on par with Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque's Vassals of the Morning Star in their American Vampire but with decidedly more body horror and gruesome mayhem at hand.

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We Have Demons weaves in a lot of familiar elements from Snyder's past work but with the insidious suggestion that evil is not only hiding among us but hiding in plain sight as the Horn-empowered demons prey upon humanity.

The idea of secret, ancient materials fueling the battle between good and evil is a theme prevalent in Snyder's work since Metal, and We Have Demons sets up another albeit gruesome meditation on the eternal conflict between Heaven and Hell.

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