Jeff Lemire And Andrea Sorrentino Expand The Bone Orchard Mythos Horrorverse With New Series, ‘Tenement’
by Olly MacNamee
Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino are expanding their horror line at Image Comics with new series Tenement. A ten issue miniseries that’s set to launch with an oversized first issue this June.
In Tenement, Lemire and Sorrentino bring fans the story of seven residents in a building and the dark secrets that bind them together…beginning with a death that feels much more sinister than natural.
Lemire spoke exclusively with Popverse:
“Tenement is the first book I started developing in the early days of planning The Bone Orchard Mythos with Andrea Sorrentino. In many ways it will be the centerpiece of our new horror universe up to this point. It will be our longest story so far and, like Gideon Falls, this new series will follow an ensemble of characters and the readers will really be able to spend time with them and invest in their stories. This will also be a book that starts to connect all the threads of our previous Bone Orchard books and begins to reveal the larger mythology we have been building. Andrea’s work on this one is even more mind-blowing than usual (if that’s possible).”
Sorrentino added:
“Tenement has it all, honestly. It’s at the same time a tense dark thriller, a deep dive into The Bone Orchard Mythos (the deepest we’ve got till now) and a long awaited first connection to the many threads we showed till now in the previous Bone Orchard entries, showing things Jeff and I are eager to show to readers since day one of this project. Everything is told through the stories of seven characters—which will all be equally important tales—and penned by Jeff with his trademark care for the human side. Are you wondering what the Bone Orchard is supposed to be…? Tenement has the answer.”
Described as “Dario Argento’s Inferno meets Rosemary’s Baby in a claustrophobic tale of terror” this newest addition to the expanding The Bone Orchard Mythos will be out on Wednesday, June 21st featuring cover art by Sorrentino, Christian Ward, Martin Simmonds, and Tradd Moore.
