When Chase Blaine's estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes guardian to McKenzie and Zach, the niece and nephew he hardly knows. Seeking stability for the children, Chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in Cape Augusta—which overlooks a deep, black bogland teeming with family secrets. Mixing the chilling atmosphere of The Haunting of Hill House with the gripping terror of The Conjuring, THE PLOT is your next horror addiction.
The art on this one really isn't for me. I bought the first 4 books in a bundle so now I must read them, but I kind of don't want to. Something really ominous is going on in this family's home and the plot of land it is standing on. This is pretty quick-paced and a bunch of stuff happens on the first issue. The art makes it had to make out what exactly happens at times. I might have liked the story more with a different art style.
This first issue looks gorgeous. Pencils by Joshua Hixson and colored by Jordan Boyd, each page oozes vintage creepiness. The story revolves around Chase, the troubled (criminal past? Financial problems? We aren't sure yet) brother of Charles, a giant in the pharmaceutical industry. Circumstances happen where Chase has to take in Charles's kids at the long empty family estate which looks like it came out of Psycho or The Innocents maybe. Will be interesting to see what secrets the family past holds and how they will play into what happens next.