Dark Horse Announces Jeff Lemire’s “Mazebook”

Via IGN, Dark Horse Comics have announced “Mazebook,” a new five-part mystery series by writer/artist Jeff Lemire. The book revolves around “a lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter,” who “receives a mysterious phone call one night from a girl claiming to be her, trapped in the middle of a labyrinth.”

The synopsis continues that the protagonist, “convinced that his child is contacting him from beyond this world, 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.”

Little else was said about the book, although IGN commented it should “appeal to fans” of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth because of its similar subject matter. Lemire commented on Twitter that each issue of the series will be 48 pages long. “Mazebook” #1 will be released in comic book shops and online on September 8. The book has already received advance praise from some of Lemire’s contemporaries, including James Tynion IV, who said it “is a deeply haunting and powerfully human work by one of the greatest living masters of the comic medium. You do not want to miss this book.”