The world descends into chaos and the astronauts stranded in the Tunnels of Xibalba must endure unspeakable tortures when their captors finally reveal themselves. As all human hopes, fears, doubts, and dreams are subjected to the cruel and merciless scrutiny of an inhuman, sadistic intelligence, is reality collapsing? Or sanity?
Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, they have also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
The “malevolent” asteroid Xibalba remains on a crash course to Earth and our planet’s saviours have FAILED to stop the threat! Nameless and the rest of his crew are being picked off by unseen Lovecraftian creatures in the asteroid’s shadows. What is happening – are we really doomed? What is human?
WHAT IS HUMAN? WHAT IS HUMAN? WHAT IS HUMAN? WHAT IS HUMAN? WHAT IS HUMAN?
Over and over and over again, the rock asks. WHAT IS HUMAN? And Nameless doesn't have an answer. I must admit, caught up in the throes of the horror happening, I'm not sure I know What is Human either? But polemics aside, this issue is vintage Grant Morrison, that psychotic touch of not knowing what the fuck is going on but sticking around just to prove a point to yourself that you're not a slow witted gorm who can't follow the plot of a comic book through to the end, even if it's a Grant Morrison comic. Cool to see that Sofia survived, think there's a cool potential for love between her and Nameless. She definitely feels like the strongest character there, well, Nameless is pretty obvious, but its cool to see how Grant plays around with Sofia's psyche while maintaining a requisite amount of vulnerability apt for a girl who knows her father wanted a boy child instead of her. Looking forward to next couple of issues, see how it plays out...
If you have trypophobia (fear of tiny holes in irregular patterns), think careful before reading this - it has some pretty strong triggers. Otherwise, this is a great chapter in the series. The artwork and writing are the usual top-notch stuff, and the nightmare imagery is pretty intense.
Cuarta entrega de la saga de Nameless (Sin nombre). La trama se torna mas y mas compleja, al fracasar la misión de rescate patrocinada por el millonario Darius. Nameless queda solo enfrentando a los incomprensibles y crueles seres milenarios prisioneros dentro de la prisión de Xibalba. Imperdible.
The less sense this comic makes, the more I enjoy it? I have no idea how to summarize what happened here, what's going on, but I'm excited to try and figure out what is real in the next issue.
Still not 100% sold on it, but enough to keep it on my pull list.
I think that Nameless will be terrific as a whole, or at least when a story arc closes a bit. For now I, as well as everyone else, have no idea what's going on.