Bone Orchard Mythos, Vol. 1: The Passageway

by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino (Artist)

Overview

"The Passageway creates an intensity that’s unnerving and hard to turn away from." – AIPT

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. 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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534322240
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	06/21/2022
Series:	Bone Orchard Mythos , #1
Pages:	96
Sales rank:	399,025
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.

Andrea Sorrentino is an Italian artist who got his professional start illustrating licensed projects at Wildstorm before its closure in 2010. He's worked for many publications since then, and is the artist on Image Comics' GIDEON FALLS.

Editorial Reviews

05/09/2022

Lemire and Sorrentino, the writer-artist team behind the horror hit Gideon Falls, reunite for another series that builds a chilling sense of dread, but have trouble anchoring it to a story. John Reed, a geologist, ventures to a remote coastal spot to study a possibly bottomless pit that’s recently formed near a lighthouse. While gauging its depths, he’s haunted by unsettling dreams about his mother, disturbing waking visions of crows and eyes, and the increasingly suspicious behavior of Sally Yandle, the stoic, antisocial lighthouse keeper. Could the pit be an opening into Hell itself, or an even more unthinkable horror? Sorrentino’s hyperrealistic, heavily photo-referenced art creates an eerie sense of heightened reality in which the crashing waves, looming lighthouse, and craggy faces of locals are as menacing as John’s blood-drenched hallucinations. The page layouts disorient effectively, with panels forming concentric circles, or toppling vertiginously down the page, with the icy landscape perpetually hovering at the close of a fog-shrouded day. Unfortunately, the truncated first installment cuts out just as the story picks up momentum, leaving questions unanswered and characters undeveloped. There’s more to come, and hopefully the next titles will build on the nihilistic horror chills set up in this opening salvo. (June)

Publishers Weekly

"The Passageway will reach into your amygdala, drawing out raw fear and unnerving dread."

AIPT

One of the year's essential horror stories.

Screen Rant

Sorrentino exhibits a mastery of illustrative technique, conveying creeping dread through oddly angular or looping layouts of overlapping panels, depicting unexpected details in the first half of this volume and later expressing cosmic terror with starkly realistic double-page depictions of inexplicable landscapes.” -Library Journal

“One of the year's essential horror stories.” -ScreenRant

“Sorrentino's hyperrealistic, heavily photo-referenced art creates an eerie sense of heightened reality in which the crashing waves, looming lighthouse, and craggy faces of locals are as menacing as John's blood-drenched hallucinations. The page layouts disorient effectively, with panels forming concentric circles, or toppling vertiginously down the page, with the icy landscape perpetually hovering at the close of a fog-shrouded day.” -Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

06/01/2022

This first volume in a new series of interconnected horror tales from collaborators Lemire and Sorrentino (whose work together includes Gideon Falls and Primordial) opens as John Reed of the Canadian Geological Society arrives upon a small, remote island, where he has travelled to investigate the appearance of a seemingly bottomless pit. The island's only inhabitant, Sal, is a gruff lighthouse keeper who hasn't ventured to the mainland in more than two decades. Sal seems to know more about the pit than she's willing to share, and she's pretty much unwilling to share anything at all, aside from where on the island it's located. Soon after surveying the area, Reed is stricken by intense dreams about his mother's death in an accident, years earlier. When these dreams evolve into visions of a vast, apparently uninhabited landscape covered with enormous stone carvings of nightmarish creatures, Reed questions whether he's losing his mind or under the sway of a malevolent supernatural force. VERDICT Sorrentino exhibits a mastery of illustrative technique, conveying creeping dread through oddly angular or looping layouts of overlapping panels, depicting unexpected details in the first half of this volume and later expressing cosmic terror with starkly realistic double-page depictions of inexplicable landscapes.

Library Journal