It’s been great to see some of my favorite horror movies adapted into comics over the past few years. This goes the same for A Quiet Place: Storm Warning which brings the world of A Quiet Place to comics by veteran comic creator Phil Hester and artist Ryan Kelly.
The creatures came for the cities first. But in Pearl, Iowa — a tiny island town on the Mississippi — the mayor and townsfolk believe that’s someone else’s problem. Cut off from the chaos of the coasts, they think they can ride out the storm. But fire chief Lonnie Fry knows better. The creatures that hunt by sound are coming west, and unless the people of Pearl take drastic action, silence won’t save them — it’ll bury them.
A Quiet Place was one of those horror films that uses silence and suspense to scare the crap out of you. The first film sees a family attempt to survive in the midst of the alien invasion, while the next two films figure out what to do in the moments of the meteor’s impact with no knowledge of what’s about to come. Hester gives us a glimpse of what happens to a small town with knowledge of the alien invasion but fails to prepare for the attack.
Storm Warning takes us to a new location in the middle of the United States where the benefits of a being a small town on an island in the center of the Mississippi River also become the towns downfall. Small enough to make decision quickly, but also small enough to make the wrong decision. They have the power to survive, but fall to take action. The town knowing what they are up against with the hope to survive and to make all the wrong choices personally gave me anxiety.
Kelly brings a gritty horror vibe to Storm Warning, adding to the unsettling horrors on each and every page.
Phil Hester and Ryan Kelly seamlessly bring a new suspenseful and horrify story into the A Quiet Place franchise with A Quiet Place: Storm Warning. While we don’t get much of what horrors lie within the alien invasion, we do get the horrors of any town USA’s inner politics and a families fight for survival.
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning #1 hits local comic shops on March 11, 2026 from the IDW Dark imprint at IDW Publishing.
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