BOOM! Studios bring you a comic about some mysterious happenings at the airport with a powerful blizzard in The Approach the graphic novel. So there are some comics that can cause casualties of some powerful blizzards coming to town. Well, most of the comics that I read are just simple where it took places like Alaska, the North Pole, etc. But the weirdest thing about it is that this story focuses on a plane crash that was caused by a bad storm which is not enough, but now the airport is filled with monsters. The comic is created by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley and illustrated by Jesus Hervas and Lea Caballero. Jeremy is a freelance comic book artist who is best known on Berserker and Battle Hymn both on Image Comics, while Jason is the co-writer and co-creator of The Beauty on Image Comics, and he’s also a retailer. Jesus is a comic artist who lives in Madrid, Spain, and is best known for Penny Dreadful, and he also worked on Shades of Magic, The Empty Man, and Lucas Stand. While Lea is a comic artist who drew and wrote Go! Unbounder and Yo Nen which sounded like some manga series that he created in Argentina, but he also does some comic work for Boom! Studios since last month.
Now I’ve seen some eerie front cover comic art before but this one you would go for a color-blind test. This cover art shows anything but extraordinary, there you see a plane that is about to land across your face. But when you look at the background, you may believe that I’m seeing things because what I’m seeing is a monster chasing right behind the plane. I don’t know if it’s real because all I’m seeing is nothing but a blizzard that can blur your vision. If there was a powerful blizzard in real life, like in New York, you would never have the chance to see who’s coming behind all that blizzard. I’m not making this up, all I’m seeing is some monster with teeth on the background. On the back of the book, there’s a quote that I like the one by Comic Watch who wrote “If execution is the key to good storytelling, then this team has the keys to the entire damn neighborhood.” There’s one thing that I do get when I get some good storytelling from the other comics that I’ve read, but this claims that this comic is much more epic than any other horror comics ever combined.
So the story starts at a small town where a big guy named Mac got a call in the morning from work that there’s a plane incoming in the afternoon. However the storm is brewing very badly for this day, but he has no choice just to go to the airport and start working there to survive. Can you imagine if you work at the airport on a bad snow day? They might have to cancel the whole flight between departures and arrival at that airport and stay home all day. However, while they do all the work all day, they helped the passengers with some hospitality after arriving, there’s another plane right out of nowhere that is right about to crash at the airport. It’s quite mysterious really. Inside there are two pilots one is dead and one is barely alive because his face looks like someone who has eaten a jellyfish and got electrified all over his face and body.
What makes this situation more bizarre is that the plane that just crashed is that the man at the cockpit said to Mac that the plane has been disappeared 27 years ago. I don’t know how these pilots survived for that long, but I guess they got themselves mad and somehow threw their lives away just to become a monster, and they did. One of the workers discovered that the pilot’s body is missing, then after that, it turned into a monster that you saw in a horror movie, even trying to outrun that thing is a pain in the ass because it can chase a person with the smell of blood around. The whole airport is infested with a bloodthirsty monster in the form of a pilot’s dead body, everyone is trapped at the airport with no electricity, heat, or power. So all they have to do is to kill that monster and the whole nightmare will be over.
The storytelling is quite terrifying to know the fact that the plane that just crashed has disappeared for over 27 years which is mindblowing. But how did that plane appear in the first place, did the engines start running again, or did they just travel in time? I don’t know, but I do know one thing is that this comic is so fucked up that they have to make a monster with iron arms and tentacles that would make it more terrifying for the readers. The artwork of this comic is something else, and I mean the monster, I don’t know how they created that, but the design almost looks like something that a child would come up with. Imagine that you played DnD with your friends, and the first thing you get to your head is a Kraken with some mixed DNA of a human and a Mantis. I have never seen such a monster like this before and it makes very disturbing for the readers. I think that this comic would give the readers some experience of how life is on a bad snow day at the airport. It’s kinda like how you take a shit while watching the news if the storm is going bad. If you rather want to read something so eerie and strange around the airport, then this is for you.
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