A Quiet Place Unleashes Storm Warning, Bringing the Franchise’s Terror to Comics
A Quiet Place breaks its silence on the page as the franchise storms into comics with Storm Warning from IDW Dark.
IDW is turning the volume down and the creep factor up. The publisher behind comics for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Trek, and Godzilla just launched IDW Dark, a new horror-focused imprint that is already lining up some serious genre IP. And yes, A Quiet Place is next.
What IDW Dark is rolling out
IDW Dark is built around Paramount horror brands, with books tied to Smile, A Quiet Place, Event Horizon, The Twilight Zone, Sleepy Hollow, and more. The release cadence looks like this:
- Event Horizon: Dark Descent — launched in August
- Smile: For the Camera — lands in February
- A Quiet Place: Storm Warning — hits shelves in March
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning
This one comes from writer and layout artist Phil Hester (Gotham City: Year One, Swamp Thing) and artist Ryan Kelly (Lucifer, Stranger Things). The setup is pure A Quiet Place: sound-seeking monsters have taken over the planet, and a tiny Midwestern island community is trying to survive without making a peep. Yes, a Midwestern island — think Mississippi River territory — specifically the town of Pearl, Iowa.
Hester and Kelly both live along the Mississippi, which makes the choice of setting feel deliberate, not random. They are also leaning into one of the franchise’s defining tricks: telling story with as little dialogue as possible. Doing that in comics is a different beast, which is exactly why Hester sounds excited about it. He points to the films’ combination of relentless tension and surprisingly human drama, and says they aimed to capture both on the page by letting the visuals carry the weight.
"Just remember to flip those pages quietly. Something unwanted might be listening."
Why this makes sense
A Quiet Place works because it’s simple and brutal: make noise, die. Translating that to a mostly wordless comic is a smart flex, and the Mississippi river-island setting gives it a fresh wrinkle that doesn’t mess with the core idea. Also, the timing helps fill the gap while we wait for John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Part III, which is currently dated for July 30, 2027.