There are few creative teams in comics as dependable as writer Jeff Lemire and artist Andrea Sorrentino. The two are stepping up their collaboration in a big way this year, as they launch an entire shared universe dubbed The Bone Orchard Mythos.
IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of The Passageway, a graphic novel from Image Comics that kicks off this Bone Orchard universe. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Image Comics' official description for The Passageway teases, "In The Passageway, readers meet a geologist who is sent to a remote lighthouse to investigate strange phenomena, he finds a seemingly endless pit in the rocks. What lurks within—and how will he escape its pull?"
“The Passageway may be the most complete collaboration between Andrea and I yet," Lemire tells IGN. "It not only tells a complete, dark and mysterious story, it also opens the doors to the larger universe of The Bone Orchard Mythos. We’re setting out to make smart, evocative and emotional horror stories that take readers to places they never could have imagined."
"The Passageway also coincidentally comes with a title that has both a meaning in the story itself (as our unfortunate John will find out) and acts as a gate for the readers to this brand-new, exciting horror universe," adds Sorrentino. "Jeff and I have carefully built a complex mythology and lore for this new world for months now and I can't wait for all this world-building to slowly unfold before the reader's eyes in the coming years. It will be huge."
The Passageway is available to preorder now and will hit comic shops on June 15 and bookstores on June 22.
Lemire and Sorrentino have several more Bone Orchard Mythos releases planned for 2022 and 2023. Readers will get their first taste of this shared universe on Free Comic Book Day 2022 (May 7) in the form of The Bone Orchard Mythos Prelude. After the release of The Passageway, a limited series called Ten Thousand Black Feathers will debut in September 2022, followed by the original graphic novel Tenement in 2023.
Lemire and Sorrentino's previous collaborations include their heavily influential Green Arrow run during DC's New 52, the Comixology Originals series Snow Angels and the Image Comics series Gideon Falls, the last of which is now being adapted for television. Lemire is also expanding his creator-owned superhero series Black Hammer onto Substack in 2022.
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IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of The Passageway, a graphic novel from Image Comics that kicks off this Bone Orchard universe. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Image Comics' official description for The Passageway teases, "In The Passageway, readers meet a geologist who is sent to a remote lighthouse to investigate strange phenomena, he finds a seemingly endless pit in the rocks. What lurks within—and how will he escape its pull?"
“The Passageway may be the most complete collaboration between Andrea and I yet," Lemire tells IGN. "It not only tells a complete, dark and mysterious story, it also opens the doors to the larger universe of The Bone Orchard Mythos. We’re setting out to make smart, evocative and emotional horror stories that take readers to places they never could have imagined."
"The Passageway also coincidentally comes with a title that has both a meaning in the story itself (as our unfortunate John will find out) and acts as a gate for the readers to this brand-new, exciting horror universe," adds Sorrentino. "Jeff and I have carefully built a complex mythology and lore for this new world for months now and I can't wait for all this world-building to slowly unfold before the reader's eyes in the coming years. It will be huge."
The Passageway is available to preorder now and will hit comic shops on June 15 and bookstores on June 22.
Lemire and Sorrentino have several more Bone Orchard Mythos releases planned for 2022 and 2023. Readers will get their first taste of this shared universe on Free Comic Book Day 2022 (May 7) in the form of The Bone Orchard Mythos Prelude. After the release of The Passageway, a limited series called Ten Thousand Black Feathers will debut in September 2022, followed by the original graphic novel Tenement in 2023.
Lemire and Sorrentino's previous collaborations include their heavily influential Green Arrow run during DC's New 52, the Comixology Originals series Snow Angels and the Image Comics series Gideon Falls, the last of which is now being adapted for television. Lemire is also expanding his creator-owned superhero series Black Hammer onto Substack in 2022.
Jesse is a mild-mannered staff writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter.
Continue reading...