Down

In the mid-2000s, Warren Ellis teamed with artists Cully Hamner and Tony Harris for this four-issue Image Comics series, a taut, character-driven thriller set in the claustrophobic confines of a high-tech elevator. When a routine descent becomes a waking nightmare, the story peels back the layers of its trapped passengers, revealing secrets and tensions as the car plummets toward an uncertain fate. With Ellis's sharp, economical dialogue and the artists' grounded, expressive visuals, Down delivers a compact, high-concept shock of suspense that lingers long after the doors open.