Geekscape Comics Reviews: ‘House In The Wall’ Chapter One

Thrillbent is addicting. The subscription service is an all-you-can read offering for creator-owned comic books. Basically, you pay a $3.99 per month subscription, and have access to Thrillbent‘s entire library via your web browser or the Thrillbent iPhone app.

The service currently offers over 260 creator-owned comics, including the second volume of Mark Waid’s Empire. Tomorrow, the catalogue grows again with the first chapter of House In The Wall, which is co-written by Batman Eternal‘s James Tynion and Noah J. Yuenkel with art by Eryk Donovan, colors by Fred C. Stressing, and letters by Troy Peteri.

The book “tells the story of Ariel Carpenter who has been sleep-walking through life for as long as she can remember. Nothing, not her boyfriend, her job or her friends… none of it seems to bring her any closer to reality. The only thing that seems solid, seems real, is a spectral house she visits every night in her dreams. But when she discovers a door to that impossible dream house in the wall of her run-down Brooklyn apartment, she’ll unlock an ancient horror that has the potential to destroy her life forever.”

The first chapter of the book doesn’t reveal a lot about what’s to come, but it does play off as a stellar introduction to Arial Carpenter and the world that she lives in. The first few panels purposefully play off a drab and boring, standard life before everything quickly goes to hell (quite literally). Eryk Donovan’s artwork expertly mixes the mundane with the supernatural, and an interesting reveal at the end of the 36 pages ensures that I’ll return for more.

The first issue of House In The Wall may only act as a preface to the true tale that’s still to come, but it’s a damn good one, and it’s more than worth your $3.99 subscription. House In The Wall begins on Thrillbent tomorrow!