This neat trick adds urgency to the plight, as does the fact that the scientists hit the asteroid with a missile in this issue in order to alter its trajectory. This is another great example of Morrison being Morrison-we could introduce all of these characters now, or we can dive deeper into the meat of the mythology. Nameless’ tells us, he forgot their names as soon as he heard them. This issue introduces us to the moon and the team who is already there, but their names aren’t even shared with us because, as ‘Mr. “Bring down death…bring down terror and wisdom”

My favorite theory so far is that the asteroid is a leftover relic of the war between Heaven and Hell, but I’m convinced everything is more complicated than that.

The scene with Nameless putting symbols on all of the spacesuits was great because we know why he’s doing that, but as readers we have no context for what sort of entity may be attacking our misfit group of heroes. Suffice to say, everything is connected in Nameless and I have no idea what will occur next. This book is so chock full of sci-fi, horror, and occult references that I would be doing a disservice to Morrison if I even tried explaining them here. Unfortunately, it looks like the last occult expert on the team went absolutely insane while studying the asteroid…and the Earth has about 30 days before that same asteroid slams into it. Nameless lands on the moon at the beginning of this issue, hoping to finally understand what the mission is and how close to obliteration the Earth is. I mean all of that with the upmost respect and admiration. Nameless #2 is a really weird, spooky, gory, beautiful, “Morrisony” book.

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