Primordial #1 Review

Writer: Jeff Lemire / Artist: Andrea Sorrentino / Image After Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, and Dave Stewart finished their incredible run on Gideon Falls at the tail end of 2020, I was left in a state of awe of how the creative team came together to tell one of the most intriguing genre bending horror stories in any medium. The interwoven story of Father Fred and Norton Sinclair was an expertly crafted comic that kept readers guessing arc after arc while being visually captivating and enthralling in the best way possible. As such, it’s very hard not to be excited for the band to come back together for something that is both similar and very much not similar to the original. Primordial is an alternate history sci-fi comic that opens with a simple year marker of 1959 and the image of the vast cosmos. A chimpanzee stares at the vast cosmos before Sorrentino decides to get incredibly weird with the visual images off the get. Here, Stewart flexes his ability to create a spot-on recreation of a retro-futurist color palette. The story then jumps forward two years and introduces us to our first human point of view character, Doctor Pembrook, a man with an impressive list of credentials who was expecting to work on building up the space shuttle program and has instead been ordered to shut it down and salvage any equipment.

Of course, Pembrook quickly discovers that not everything is as it seems in Cape Canaveral and has a lingering sensation of existential dread that is somehow …