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[Comic Review] “Nameless” #4 Will Shatter Your Hope
Reviewed by Brady Steele. You want horror? You want truly shocking? You want hope shattering storytelling? You should read The Nameless #4 right now so you can devoid yourself of all hope in the salvation of mankind. This is science-horror at its most disturbing and mind bending.
WRITTEN BY: Grant Morrison
ART BY: Chris Burnham
PUBLISHER: Image Comics
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE: 10 June 2015
Writer Grant Morrison is channeling some truly dark forces and ideas into this latest venture. Astronauts in space are sent to stop a meteor from destroying the Earth. What the meteor actually is is something much worse than a Michael Bay movie plot. Another dimension’s worst elements are invading our planet physically, mentally and spiritually all at the same time. Morrison layers on so many different ways beings more powerful than us can break us down. As usual for his work, there’s a lot to take in to truly grasp what is going on in this story.
Another great reason there is so much to follow in this issue is artist Chris Burnham. I thought their previous collaboration Batman Incorporated was impressive. This is another kind of impressive in the way horrible car accidents grab your attention and don’t let go of it. The artwork in this book will haunt you for a good long while. I don’t know who came up with these twisted ideas and I don’t want to know. Paradoxically, I can’t look away either.
Maybe that’s the magic spell Morrison and Burnham are casting with this series. Hope seems to have been stripped away already in this story. I’m not sure where this ship can be turned around but I have no doubt this uninhibited creative team will keep readers enthralled and horrified and captivated until the bloody and disgusting end.
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IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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