This isn’t b-movie slasher material, this is horror that effs with your mind and haunts you in your sleep. Nameless #1 is a dark horror story reminiscent of Scanners, They Live, Videodrome, and the like. Even the asteroid Xibalba has a cryptic symbol on it, one that’s showing up on Earth as well. I scoured Nameless #1 for hidden messages, one less obvious of which is the chilling line, “Zirom trian ipam ipamis” which I’m pretty sure is an anagram for something that some interweb geek has already figured out.

Background words, signs, and creatures don’t exactly make sense, something I’d expect if I were dreaming. He shows it’s a place where anything can and does happen, colors span from glowing pinks to worldly blues. I particularly like the dream sequences, something Chris Burnham has penciled up perfectly. We are only a few short weeks away from the release of Nameless, the new six-issue Image Comics series from Grant Morrison, Chris Burnham and Nathan Fairbairn, described by Morrison as a straight-up horror comic about the worst that humanity has to offer.

Grant Morrison has created a frightening world, one that exists on multiple plains. Nameless is a horror story through and through, one you want to dig deeper and deeper in to. The story is quite unique but strangely isn’t the highlight of Nameless #1. Nameless, a 2015 Image Comics miniseries by Chris Burnham and Grant. This makes him particularly valuable to some and a menace to others. 1 Film, television and comics 2 Music 3 Places. “Nameless”, while he points out is still a name, has the unique ability to transcend dream states. Nameless #1 explores the dark worlds of the occult and the doomed distant future. Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham team up again for something a little more cryptic and messed up than the Batman and Robin we’ve seen in the past. Buy Cover price: 24.

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