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The new prequel to A Quiet Placeis a perfect addition to the franchise. It makes the most of the alien invasion horror story's potential. While the focus of Quiet Place stories is limited, the scope of the world they take place in is vast. Each new entry in the franchise is an opportunity to go somewhere new and fill out that world more, which is exactly what Storm Warning does.
Like A Quiet Place: Day One, Storm Warning is a prequel to the first two films. It takes fans to the Midwestern town Pearl, Iowa, and depicts the early days of the alien invasion from the perspective of its inhabitants. Complicating matters dramatically, in the best way, is the catastrophic storm that hits, flooding the town just as Pearl's citizens are learning to move in silence or be slaughtered by the monsters that have overtaken Earth.
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning is a miniseries from IDW Publishing, under their IDW Dark imprint. It is the first Quiet Place comic, and as it reaches its climax, it can certainly be called a success. Storm Warning has told a story as good as the franchise's film installments, and more crucially, managed to make the franchise's monstrous villains terrifying on the page, like they are on screen.
With A Quiet Place Part III delayed again, to 2027, Storm Warning is a perfect next chapter in the overall arc of the franchise. It is a prequel that makes the world of A Quiet Place deeper and more dynamic, proving the franchise fits seamlessly into the graphic medium.
The Midwestern "Quiet Place" Prequel Is A Refreshing New Angle On The Franchise
Storm Warning, Written By Phil Hester; Art By Hester & Ryan Kelly; Available Now In Full From IDW
Here's the synopsis for A Quiet Place: Storm Warning #1:
The world ended in a hush.
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.
It is a refreshing new angle on the franchise, which pays off issue by issue as the story progresses. As the synopsis alludes to, the cinematic Quiet Place prequel, Day One, took place in New York City. Storm Warning flips the geographical script, exploring how humanity would fight for survival in a place where there's much more potential for silence.
Pearl is a strong setting, but what really grounds the story of Storm Warning are its leading characters, including town Fire Chief Lonnie Fry and his sister, Mayor Terri Phair. In the manner of the best post-apocalyptic stories, the characters' harsh new reality brings the simmering ideological tensions between them to a boil. Except they can't have a good old-fashioned shouting match; this is A Quiet Place. And Storm Warning is more nuanced than that with its storytelling anyway.
"A Quite Place" Is Ripe For More Comic Book Expansion Of Its Universe
The truth is, there are more good ideas for Quiet Place stories than there ever will be Quiet Place movies or TV shows. That's true of every franchise. That's where comics come in. A Quiet Place, as a franchise, can and should become global. It is a worldwide alien invasion story. It is exciting to consider how different people and places would handle the civilization-ending calamity differently, or the same.
That growth is more likely to happen in comics and novels than on screen. That's the case for reading comics in general, for everything from Star Warsto Dune to Blade Runner, and so on. With Storm Warning, the Quiet Place franchise has confirmed just how much works on the page. In a medium with no sound. One of the fascinating aspects of Storm Warning, in fact, is how author/artist Phil Hester and co-penciller Ryan Kelly play with sound and silence.
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning ends its run with issue #5, available now from IDW. The trade paperback collection of the entire miniseries will be available in January 2027. For fans who are eager for more A Quiet Place, it is absolutely worth picking up in individual issues, or in its collected volume, ahead of the next cinematic installment of the franchise.
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning #5 is available now from IDW Publishing.
What do you say, Quiet Place fans. Are you willing to give Storm Warning a shot?
