Nominated for "Best New Series" at the 2024 Eisners, PHANTOM ROAD continues in "THE HORRORMEN," a thrilling new arc by JEFF LEMIRE and GABRIEL HERNÁNDEZ WALTA!!!In the middle of a shoot-out, Agent Donald Weaver is transported to "The Other Place," and a bit of the epic power in play is revealed. And back in Wisconsin, Hugo Hamm launches an insidious plan to regain control of the artifact...with no regard to the human lives it may destroy.
Lemire and Walta have conjured a big, sweeping story thats going to work a lot better in collected editions than it does in any single issue of the series. While it IS impressive to see such wide-open spaces of horror bound into a comics pamphlet, the story playing-out in individual issues feels sluggish and spastic as it restlessly jolts through 30 pages or so before settling-down for another month until its next narrative spasm. Its just...weird to see something the moves with such slow, deliberate beauty fragmented into a series of single issues. Read Full Review
Walta delivers beautiful art throughout the issue. The visuals give the reader a wonderful sense of space, time and the visual transition between the two worlds. Read Full Review
I continue to like this series much better when we follow this story. Hopefully, when we switch back to the truck driver, we continue to get story progression.