James Tynion IV y Christian department They surprise with Spectregraph, a horror story in which internal ghosts are much more terrifying than those who live abroad

Editorial standard Dare with a new title of Dstlry which is added to those already published Fall asleep y Left. This time it is Spertregrapha terrorist work written by James Tynion IV And with the art of Christian department in which we enter with the two protagonists of the story in a house that is much more than it may seem …

Life after life

After a brief introduction that places us in the seventies and presents a strange sect linked to occultism (each pages will be included flashback Years ago that will build a topic that will reveal some aspects of the plot) we go to the present in which the story begins with a home on the Californian coast built by an industrial magnate obsessed with the paranormal. That house is not just a house; It is a mechanical and psychological trap made. The protagonist, JanieHe is a real estate agent who tries to combine his work with being a single mother. When the owner dies and leaves the house for sale, Janie sees the opportunity to make money … until the home decides that his tenant could forever.

The background of this character is very well built, showing from the beginning through a telephone conversation with a friend the complex of his situation in relation to the child who should be the center of his life and to whom perhaps he is not paying all the attention he should. When the events accelerate, this child will be the engine for Janie to have a reason to survive what he has in advance and to be able to return with him.

Next to him will be Vesper Quinn (Few names of suits of this), a young woman who initially presents us as a possible antagonist in history but soon out of necessity, will become Janie’s effort. Vesper works like an attachment to enigmatic Thanaatos groupA sect obsessed with the paranormal and reached the house to discover the origin of the hidden power that the building manifests. Vesper will also have its good dose of internal ghosts that you will have to face while you fight to leave the house.

The presence of Vesper brings a dark and fascinating counterpoint. Where Janie is vulnerable and is exhausted and terrified of what happens, Vesper remains cold, calculating and almost seduced by the idea of horror. It is that tension between the two that enriches the story: two women so opposite trapped in the same supernatural labyrinth, without knowing if they will be their destruction or their salvation. The plot is twisted and there is a bit of fright, but terror comes rather from an overwhelming atmosphere that accompanies the fact that the house is revealed as a living entity, with disconcerting machines and presences that seem torn from the nightmares of a nigromante.

With the Tynion seal

James Tynion IV is a teacher of psychological horror precisely for not having gone to simple. Instead of filling the pages of Gore e JumpscaresHere there is a prolonged tension, a lot of milk and bad characters that put the leg because they are human. Janie is not a perfect hero, but it is vulnerable and will really import the reader when the time comes. And against the whole prognosis, the same will end with Vesper …

And this is precisely the strong point of the work, the characters and the reasons that everyone had to reach the point where they are. But on the negative side of Tynion’s work, we should talk about what the plot itself is, which seems much more complicated than it really is. The truth is that if we forget the development of the main characters, Spectregraph is still a home story with ghosts that works, at most, as a simple excuse for the screenwriter to talk about what he really wants to talk, uncomfortable issues such as elitism, unlimited power, maternal pain and fault for the errors of the past …

Visually demanding

Christian Ward does an ambitious job as you would expect from this artist. Use the panoramic format to convert each page into a silent film of horror. Use impossible colors (intense blue, opulent purple, bloody red) that work beautifully well as a powerful narrative tool and therefore cut down the cartoons in the panels with demanding shapes to lengthen some sensations. However, the ambitious of your proposal can sometimes be harmful to have a clear narrative. Perhaps this is precisely its intention when the pages are made up as it does, but the result could end up exhausing the reader.

In short, with this work we do not find the typical story of ghosts, but the authors play with a further step forward, but because of what the Spencegraph ends, it is due to the brilliant of the construction of the two leading characters and their internal ghosts. This Escición Presented by Editorial standard It is available in a rigid cover format with a page size of 21.5 x 27.5 cm. and contains the translation of the original edition of the comic. The volume contains 216 pages color. The recommended sale price is 36 € And it was on sale in June 2025.

Spertregraph

Modern comedians James Tynion IV and Christian Ward come together to present what will be a new classic of the horror genre

For years, the home has remained strangely intact on the California coast, not far from Los Angeles. Voices say that its owner is a magnate of the American industry with a perverse charm for occultism and paranormal phenomena. For decades, the richest men and women in the country have tried among the whispers to find out what was building only in that home. And now, finally, with his death and his assets for sale … they want to find out once and for all.

Two of the most recognized authors of the ninth art, the winners several times of the ISNER Award James Tynion IV (The beautiful house on the lake, There is something that kills children, W0RLDTR33) Y Christian department (Batman: City of Madness, Invisible kingdom) Invites you to know the world of SpertregraphIn a work of disturbing and brain terror that strips of their opulent clothes for the rich Americans to show the putrefaction they hide. But be careful: if you enter, you may never go out.

Authors: James Tynion IV y Christian department