Evil All Along: In the book's third act, Sal and Doug suddenly turn on John and attempt to sacrifice him to the hole.And that's not even getting into whatever's going on with that shrine at the bottom of the hole. Eldritch Location: The hole itself - it appeared out of nowhere, it's seemingly deeper than the island itself, and there's no indication of where it came from or why it's there.The last panels of the story are of the hole, reminding us that what lies beneath it is still real.

Downer Ending: With Sal and Doug both dead, John crawls off a cliff and falls into the sea, seeing his mother before he dies.Disturbed Doves: When John is pushed into the hole, he is beset upon by a flock of birds that fly past him.Haunted by memories of a traumatic childhood incident, John examines the hole and discovers something truly shocking.

It was published in 2022 by Image Comics and is the first full-length entry in Lemire and Sorrentino's Bone Orchard Mythos.Ī geologist, John Reed, is sent out for an investigation to a small island with a lighthouse when the keeper, Sally 'Sal' Yandle, reports that a seemingly bottomless sinkhole appeared in the middle of the island overnight. The Passageway is a horror graphic novel note Written and published as a single book written by Jeff Lemire, illustrated by Andrea Sorrentino and inked by Dave Stewart, the creative team behind Gideon Falls and Primordial.

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