Via CBR, comiXology have announced “The Panic,” a five-issue thriller by writer/letterer Neil Kleid (“Savor,” “The Big Kahn”), and artist Andrea Mutti (“Maniac of New York”). The book follows ten strangers, who become trapped beneath the Hudson River when their PATH train car comes to a halt. They must work together to survive and climb to safety, but “their own individual fears and paranoia — along with cultural, racial, and political biases,” soon threatens to tear them apart. “It’ll be a long road to the end of the tunnel,” says the synopsis, “that is if they don’t kill each other before they get there.”
Kleid, who lives in New Jersey, described the series as “not only my first real stab at a horror comic, but a brutal love letter to New York and New Jersey. ‘The Panic’ is a story about the loss of security and control of one’s surroundings… about emotionally navigating the moment after something terrible happens, especially if you don’t know what caused it. The specifics of the inciting incident — why a train crashed, who is shooting, what exploded — become less important than the sinking feeling in the pit of one’s belly, that sense of dread and unease when your personal world is upended and tossed into terrible conditions via unknown means… that panic inside which drives all decisions to come, logical or ill-advised.”
In more comiXology Originals news today, Dark Horse Comics announced the past series “Funny Creek” and “Double Walker” will be released respectively in print on December 6, and December 20, 2022. In the meantime, “The Panic” #1 will be released on Amazon on May 3, and the whole comic will be collected by Dark Horse in paperback on November 8; you can read a preview of the first issue right now, here.
