The story is written by Scott Snyder and Jack Snyder, with art by Valeria Favoccia and Whitney Cogar.

Superstar comic book writer and Eisner Award winner, Scott Snyder, teams up with his son, Jack Snyder, for their first graphic novel, a meteorological adventure.

In By a Thread, thirteen years ago, a deadly and mysterious infection spread across the Earth's surface, forcing humanity to live in communities built above the ground.

Jo, growing up in Needle Three, hardly remembers a time before the world was shrouded in darkness. But when the hero's community is attacked by the tyrannical Charon and his forces, Jo and her friends must decide whether to traverse the wasteland in search of a safe haven as the world hangs by a thread.