Image Comics Blends Supernatural Horror With Real Problems in New Series
Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Closet #1!
A new series called The Closet from Image Comics successfully blends supernatural horror with nuanced real-life adult problems in a satisfying way. Image has produced more than a few great horror comics like the perfectly titled F*** This Place, and they knock it out of the park once again with The Closet
New American comic books always enter the market at a major disadvantage as opposed to more established series due to a lack of name recognition. As a result, creators face the daunting dilemma of having to capture readers' attention immediately to keep them from drifting to a superhero comic, causing writers to come up with something outlandish or eye-grabbing within the first few panels or, at least, the first page. A comic like The Closet that does in fact incorporate supernatural horror would be expected to push that aspect of the story immediately, but that's not the case.
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Instead, the first thing readers see is a normal-looking guy in a regular bar talking about ordinary problems in The Closet #1 by writer James Tynion IV (who also wrote the acclaimed The Department of Truth), artist Gavin Fullerton, colorist Chris O'Halloran and letterer Tom Napolitano. Of course, Gavin's eerie cover art promises that the inside pages will delve into the well-known «monster in the closet» trope, so even more skittish readers who may have been initially thrown by the ordinariness of the opening scene are more likely to tough it out until that creepiness finally finds its way into the story. But the perfect execution of dialogue during this bar scene is enough to make the wait for this eventual transition actually
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