Sweet Tooth and Black Hammer creator Jeff Lemire is taking on family grief in a new Dark Horse Comics series titled Mazebook, and a preview of the first issue examines how quickly memories can fade away.
CBR has the exclusive preview of Mazebook #1 by Jeff Lemire, who handles the writing and art duties on the miniseries. It follows a lonely building inspector who has lost his puzzle-loving daughter, and how he can still count every thread of her favorite sweater, but can no longer remember his daughter's face. The father has these thoughts as he attempts to go through his normal workday.
Mazebook #1 goes on sale Sept. 8 from Dark Horse Comics.
Mazebook #1 (of 5)
- Written by JEFF LEMIRE
- Art by JEFF LEMIRE
- Cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO
- On sale Sept. 8
- From Jeff Lemire, the creator of Sweet Tooth and New York Times bestselling and Eisner award-winning Black Hammer, comes Mazebook, an ambitious and haunting comic series about family, grief, and loss.
- A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a mysterious phone call one night from a girl claiming to be her, trapped in the middle of a labyrinth. Convinced that his child is contacting him from beyond this world, he uses an unfinished maze from one of her journals and a map of the city to trace an intricate path through a different plane of reality, and embarks on an intense and melancholic adventure to bring his daughter back home.
