The story ( spoiler alert) culminates in the idea that every human remembers, on a genetic level, the intergalactic war between good and evil which took place millions of years ago. Readers were spellbound and disturbed by Morrison’s story, moved enough to create fan art, gifs and even a soundtrack, which the comic creators shared on Twitter. If that wasn’t trouble enough, the asteroid has an enormous magical symbol carved into its side and is revealed to be a fragment of our solar system’s lost fifth planet, Marduk, destroyed sixty-five million years ago at the end of an epic cosmic war between the inhabitants of Marduk and immensely powerful, life-hating, extra-dimensional “gods.” One of those beings is still alive, imprisoned on Xibalba, dreaming of its ultimate revenge on all that exists.”įaces are ripped off, astronauts are torn limb from limb, and multiple characters kill and eat their own families, all in the name of the malevolent entity living in Xibalba.

The plot, which is almost incomprehensible in the first two issues, is as follows, according to Image: “A massive asteroid named Xibalba-the “Place of Fear” in Mayan mythology-is on collision course with the planet Earth. The nameless protagonist, like the reader, is never able to tell nightmare from reality, and the comic’s effect is disorienting, even bordering on uncomfortable. As it approaches, Xibalba demonstrates a psychic hold over those on earth and over the astronauts who explore it. The story follows a nameless occult hustler brought on to analyze a huge asteroid, Xibalba, hurtling toward the earth. It’s a non-linear, trippy comic fully indebted to its form, frightening because of the way comics are: silent, private, and full of small spaces between panels in which anything could happen.

What’s more, Nameless is not a horror comic in the same vein as The Walking Dead or Outcast.

Nameless by grant morrison