One of many go-to scary tales is the haunted home story; it is as simple to inform one sitting round a campfire as it’s to make a horror image out of 1. One current haunted home story that will have slipped underneath your radar — however should not have — is the 2021 comedian mini-series “The Me You Love In The Darkish.”
Artist Ro Meadows has a showcase deadline approaching. So, she rents an previous home within the midwest, considering she wants some isolation to create. Her actual property agent warns her that her chosen home is rumored to be haunted, however Ro feels too drawn in to move it up. As she nonetheless struggles to color, she learns the home wasn’t empty even earlier than she moved in.
“The Me You Love In The Darkish” is the work of author Skottie Younger and artist Jorge Corona (who’s presently killing it as artist on the best-selling “Transformers” comedian). The comedian is their second team-up, sandwiched between “Middlewest,” and their new Western, “Ain’t No Grave.” All three comics counsel they’re a brand new comic-making drive to look out for.
Talking to AIPT, Younger and Corona talked about they first plotted the story shortly earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic started. They felt like they’d been dealt an unwinnable hand, having conceived a comic book about somebody trapped in a home when their readers had simply gone by means of their very own horror story like that. As an alternative, it made their comedian much more resonant. It helps that “The Me You Love In The Darkish” captures essentially the most important a part of the cabin fever expertise: it has a sluggish onset.
The confined setting and Corona’s rhythmic paneling imply that “The Me You Love In The Darkish” is a breezy learn — the 5 points stream simply as one. Every of the 5 covers observe a sample; on the high of the web page, the home is sitting on high of a black void. Beneath that, there is a scene that includes the characters. In subject #1’s cowl, it is Ro together with her again changed into the darkness as two shadowed fingers stretch out in direction of her easel.
It is a e book you possibly can choose by its cowl. The comedian mixes true horror with a cartoony artwork type (take Ro’s impossibly large, blue sufficient to be opaque glasses), however is not any much less scary regardless of how unrealistic it appears.
“The Me You Love In The Darkish” invitations comparisons to horror author legend Stephen King. The collected version’s again cowl blurb mentions King (and Neil Gaiman, for there’s plenty of “Coraline” on this comedian too) and somebody within the e book name-checks “The Shining.” Like that e book, this one can also be a couple of artistic who tries to make use of isolation to get forward on work. (Although Jack Torrance was a author whereas Ro is a painter.) Their work-vacation goes awry after they meet one thing in the home that holds possessive ill-intent.
Regardless of the warranted “Shining” comparisons, the dynamic between Ro and the home finally turns into nearer to a different (nearly pretty much as good) Stephen King e book: “Distress,” which is about an writer held hostage by a deluded fan.
