There are pages that will satisfy readers while also setting up a larger dark mystery. If you grew up in New England you’ll relate to the visual feel of the story.Īs the story goes, more is revealed, and Sorrentino brings some of his most impressive double-page spreads to comics ever. There’s a freezing nature to the visuals that establish a dread and mood that’s unmistakably devoid of life. The sky is gloomy and its depressing grays never let up. Surrounding them is a cold dark ocean that may even send a shiver up your spine. It’s a desolate, isolated island that holds secrets. We soon meet our protagonist, John Reed, who is deathly white on a boat headed to an island with a lighthouse as its main feature. The Passageway opens in a kind of dream, with Sorrentino depicting a woman falling in green strokes as if dancing or maybe even drowning.

Similar to their previous works like Gideon Falls and Primordial–which are not part of this universe– The Passageway will reach into your amygdala, drawing out raw fear and unnerving dread.

Kicking things off is The Passageway, a 95-page graphic novel out June 15th introducing readers to a horror that blends reality with fantasy and extraordinary imagery that’s also very much grounded in reality. In 2023 Lemire and Sorrentino will follow up with a miniseries collection titled, Ten Thousand Black Feathers, and then another original graphic novel hardcover in 2023 titled Tenement.Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino are setting out to explore horror in a brand new way with the shared self-contained universe of the Bone Orchard.

In Summer 2022 the horrors begin with a hardcover graphic novel titled, The Passageway which follows a geologist sent to a remote lighthouse to investigate a strange phenomenon. The team plans to release at least two new titles each year, for the next several years. Each title will tell its own unique, self-contained tale some as stand-alone hardcover graphic novels, some as miniseries comics, and some as longer format maxiseries comics but they will all be set within the same world and add to the overall Bone Orchard mythology. But what lurks within and how will he escape its pull? THE PASSAGEWAY is the first of a dozen new interconnected projects making up THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS from LEMIRE and SORRENTINO! The Bone Orchard Mythos is an ambitious expansion for the powerhouse creative team and will span multiple books and across a variety of different storytelling formats. From the creative team of GIDEON FALLS and PRIMORDIAL comes the first book in a bold and ambitious new shared horror universe! When a geologist is sent to a remote lighthouse to investigate strange phenomenon he finds a seemingly endless pit in the rocks.

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