Interwoven and wrapped around Sorrentino and Stewart’s dazzling visual imagery are Lemire’s often fragmented, hauntingly poetic words. Stewart’s tightly constrained color palette, deep shadowy blacks, and hazy background landscapes amplify the effect. Sorrentino’s gritty, wondrously stylized, cinéma verité style is the perfect complement to Lemire’s unnervingly stark, foreboding script. These are the kind of stories I want to read as a graphic novel and comics fan, and the kind of things I want to draw as an artist.” when we started discussing the project, I felt like I was finally home. “Jeff and I have been planning and plotting The Bone Orchard Mythos for over a year now,” said Sorrentino in Image’s original 2021 press release, “. Whether they come in the form of seemingly innocuous allusions or more overt references, you’re sure to have new understanding of certain plot points, words and phrases, and recurrent images that reverberate through each narrative. If you did read the first book, however, you’re sure to be damn glad you did. To be clear, you don’t need to read The Passageway to pick up and enjoy Ten Thousand Black Feathers #1.
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