Gideon Falls #25 Review

Writer: Jeff Lemire / Artist: Andrea Sorrentino / Image Are you feeling sinister? It’s been several issues since we last talked about Gideon Falls, largely because there is just such a wide array of comics out there on the market that deserve their due. However, Gideon Falls has quietly and consistently been one of the best titles out on the shelves, not just for horror fans, but for fans of comics in general. So as the series races towards its inevitable conclusion with this penultimate issue of the last arc before the entire series gets its 80 page conclusion in Gideon Falls #27, I wanted to revisit what is perhaps one of the wildest works of fiction and one of my favorites.

In the intervening issues that we haven’t covered here, Gideon Falls got progressively weirder as various alternate realities began to collide in increasingly wild ways and the various protagonists have tried several machinations to try and save their tenuous concept of the world only to have the destruction of the Black Barn unleash the Laughing Man in full force. I highly recommend catching up with the issues because it is a surrealistic trip that weave a compelling tale of intrigue and you definitely want to be prepared for the endgame. And as demonstrated with the images above and below, Sorrentino’s artwork alongside Stewart’s colors and Wands’s lettering and design, produce some of the most beautifully haunting artwork that capture the nightmarish landscape that is the converging of all of Gideon…