"The Serpent of the Sea," is a new comic by writer Finlay Miles and illustrator Lyndon White. It's a highly enjoyable one-shot story with a delightfully unreliable narrator who might be suffering from madness or could have simply stumbled into knowledge no human should learn of, and found the Universe prefers anything he discovered be rendered forgotten. Set in 1882, we read the diaries of Captain Edward Bartholomew Pierce as a seemingly straightforward search for missing shipping vessels morphs into a fight for his life against all manner of strange creatures and beings.
Miles does a superb job of filling readers with dread and White's illustrations are imposing and scary without a doubt. They cram a lot of impressive storytelling into their comic, and I do wonder if we'll someday get a sequel exploring how much of what Captain Pierce believes occurred is real or imagined. If you desire a good serving of horror, "The Serpent of the Sea," should help satisfy that craving! You can buy it on White's website, and I rate it...
5 out of 5 Stars.
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