There is also some awesome colorwork happening, with nightly tones and rain effects add to the bleak depiction of a dark world, and changing lights of the dream world draws out the surreal. The panel layouts are either brilliantly inventive, or traditional with their sequence of events being inventive or both. There is violence, and nightmarish imagery, all brought to a strange order. The mix does that all to the extreme in Nameless. The exaggerated expressions, often mixed with a mix of human emotion and horror had me on edge at times (especially in #5 with post apocalyptic Gotham vision). This combination gave a unique storytelling vibe and feel to their earlier work in the second volume of Batman Incorporated. Not so much the usual complex storytelling I expect by Grant Morrison, but the style and sequential art pushed to its modern inventive form by this combination of Morrison and Burnham. Personal Thoughts (after reading the first issue): Abandon all hope and experience ultimate horror in NAMELESS.” But nothing is what it seems-a terrifying inhuman experiment is about to begin. And the malevolent asteroid Xibalba spins closer on a collision course with Earth. An occult hustler known only as ‘Nameless’ is recruited by a consortium of billionaire futurists for a desperate mission. A Veiled Lady hunts her victims through human nightmares. “An astronomer kills his family, then himself, leaving a cryptic warning.
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