The Cabinet: Constantine Meets Clarissa Explains It All in New Image Comics Series
Image Comics has announced The Cabinet, a new ’90s-set supernatural adventure series from Jordan Hart, David Ebeltoft, and Chiara Raimondi.
The Cabinet is a five-issue limited series set to launch under Image‘s Syzygy imprint in February 2024. According to the publisher, the comic “follows an Indian-American teen, Avani, and midwestern jock, Trent, on a teleporting mission across a post-Cold War landscape to collect bizarre relics.” Avani and Trent seek to “summon the arcane powers of a resplendent 17th-century cabinet to fix a teeny-tiny mistake the last time Avani used it … a gaffe that inadvertently unleashed an ancient evil from its prison and killed her parents.” Issue #1 features a main cover by series artist Raimondi, as well as variant covers by Marguerite Sauvage.
Check out the cover art and preview pages for The Cabinet #1 below:
The inspirations for Image Comics’ The Cabinet
“Equally beautiful and creepy, medieval Display Cabinets (Kabinettschranks) inspired David and I after seeing one in person at a local museum,” series writer Hart said. “We immediately knew we wanted to build a story around a baroque version with arcane power—but sidestepped a dark, gothic horror tale in favor of a vibrant supernatural adventure set in the early ’90s. The result is a world that combines Constantine with Clarissa Explains It All through a Lisa Frank-esque lens that only Chiara could deliver.” Image itself similarly describes The Cabinet as “Lumberjanes meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
“Jordan and I, while cooking up The Cabinet, had an underlying rule for our occult and character-driven adventure—always have fun,” co-writer Ebeltoft explained. “And that’s what we did. Even when Avani, our heroine, comes face to face with uber-dark moments and calamitous escapades, our emotional meter never dips into depressing. It swings dramatic for sure, but that just makes the levity before and after those tense moments more rewarding … for us at least … hopefully for y’all too.”
“Drawing The Cabinet truly took my art to another level,” Raimondi added. “I’ve never had the chance of drawing such fun, unhinged and vivid pages as the ones written by Jordan and David before. I really felt I could create without limits, and I wanted my colors to fully reflect the fun I had in putting this project together! You’ll never know what crazy and hilarious challenge Avani and Trent have to face next, so put on your best ’90s outfit and get ready to be hooked!”
The Cabinet goes on sale February 14, 2024 from Image Comics.
