Comic Review: Sea of Sorrows #2 (IDW Publishers)

I’m happy to say that the second issue of Sea of Sorrows is a murky, mid-ocean melodrama. This title, from IDW, is the definition of a ‘dark and stormy night’ indeed.

The prose is not purple here, in this saga of adventurers aboard a small ship off the coast of Newfoundland. Their aim is to retrieve gold, contained in a craft sunken many leagues below in the inky darkness. Precariously poised on an undersea shelf.

Writer Rich Douek captures the mood and mist, and foreshadows the rhythm with a full deck of players. The divers get down deep, but trouble lurks in the ice-cold Atlantic. Deep memories, ghosts, menacing sharks, and loads more drama unwrinkle.

Alex Cormack illustrates and colours, with letters by Justin Birch. The drawings are hard-edged, and the underwater scenes do indeed capture a suffocating, disorienting sensation.

It’s a strong and mysterious thriller, chiller, with darkness above and beyond the sirens’ call to action.

IDW, Sea Of Sorrows #2, $3.99 for 25 pages of content. Rated Mature for horror