Marble Hornets Comic Series
There are, at present, 4.5 Marble Hornets comic issues that have been released, following Jessica Locke several years after the original Marble Hornets series' end. Written by Troy Wagner and illustrated by Jackie Reynolds, they are available for purchase through the Gramp Co store front in both print and digital format! I highly recommend that you read them, but I will not be posting/sharing any of the materials beyond these brief summaries/overviews - supporting artists (especially individual/self-published ones) is extremely important in this day and age.
Issue One
Several years after the events of Marble Hornets, Jessica Locke is now working as a driver for a mail delivery service. The slow Summer season means that she's taking few packages out, often on long drives out to isolated houses, and she passes the time between deliveries listening to podcasts. Despite the slow, monotonous work, Jessica seems chronically on edge - anxious, experiencing minor hallucinations, and losing patches of time. While out on her final delivery for the day, she arrives at the address on the package to find a derelict house, and when she glances at the box's label, she realizes it's addressed to Her name. While processing this, she's confronted by a masked figure - a person dressed in a hooded bomber jacket, wearing a skull mask - who says, "It's you." Jessica's hilarious first instinct to this interaction is to grab a nearby pipe and immediately swing directly at them. However, just as she's about to make contact, we cut to her running, lost in the middle of the woods - hallucinating and on the verge of passing out. The B plot of the comic follows two amateur filmmakers - Adam and David - about to enter Rosswood Park, spurred on by the (perceived as fictional) original Marble Hornets project.
Issue Two
After her breakdown in the previous issue, Jessica is attempting to follow-up with a doctor's appointment - helped by the lovely Dr. Taylor who presumably helped Jessica out of the forest while she was still having an episode. Meanwhile, Adam and David are clearly having issues with interpersonal conflict as they work on their Documentary on Rosswood Park and the Marble Hornets series. Jessica reveals that she was diagnosed with Narcolepsy after sustaining a concussion in Rosswood Park years earlier, and lies about her experiences with hallucinations since then. Despite Taylor's concern about the danger Jessica's Narcolepsy poses to her due to her job as a driver, Jessica insists that this is the only job that she's been able to maintain in years, and Taylor reluctantly backs down - breaking down into her own coughing fit after Jessica leaves. The Masked Figure follows Jessica home, knocking at her door and seeming to spark another episode - after Jessica recovers, she realizes they've left the box addressed to her on her doorstep. It contains a note reading "You can be fixed; Tell no one" and a harddrive containing all of the original Marble Hornets entry files.
Issue Three
Panicked by the sight of her own face in the Marble Hornets videos, Jessica frantically calls Taylor, who offers to come by her apartment to help. Taylor attempts to rationalize Jessica's panic over the contents of the harddrive, but Jessica doesn't seem reassured, and Taylor decides to take the harddrive in an attempt to keep Jessica from obsessing over its contents, although she agrees to spend the night when Jessica expresses fear over having to be alone. The next morning, they head off to work separately, and although Jessica seems to have a very good day, she finds herself returning to the abandoned house after she finishes her deliveries. She encounters the Masked Figure again - and although she's frightened, they clearly don't pose a threat, even allowing her to pause their confrontation to accept a phone call from Taylor, who is experiencing terrifying new symptoms of her own. The Masked Figure reveals that they aren't human - they're a collective of all the souls it pulled from the Ark - it wants to "Help all that I carry. And those that are broken". It identifies Jessica as broken, but assures her that she Can be fixed - all she needs to do is kill the Operator.
In the B Plot, after going off to Rosswood on his own in the middle of the night, Adam returns to the hotel he's sharing with David, but all the footage he'd recorded has been corrupted, so he forces David back out to accompany him back to the park. David is clearly irritated and upset with Adam's obsessive behavior, but Adam is angry and aggressive in their confrontation over the direction of the project, leaving David sullen and reluctantly following.
Issue 3.5
This issue is a brief interlude - cutting back to the original Marble Hornets timeline immediately after Brian's death. He awakes in the Ark, hurt and wandering to try and find his way out. He stumbles across Jay's corpse, half lost to the Ark, and refocuses on his attempt to leave - although Jay appears as if he's being digested by the setting, Brian is able to wander it more or less freely, saying that he's escaped many times before and will do so again. Each time he escapes, it seems that part of him is left behind in the Ark, but even though he feels he has nothing left to leave, he refuses to surrender and resolves to wander lost forever if that's what it takes. The Masked Figure approaches him, telling him that even though he's broken, the Figure is unbroken, and it can carry the broken away - leaving the Ark to starve. Brian seems tempted, and then regains his old resolve - demanding to be brought out and taken to Alex. But Alex is already inside of the Ark, and Brian rushes at him, threatening to feed him to the Ark - like Jay, Alex seems insensate - but the Masked Figure intervenes, refusing to allow Brian to feed the Ark anything. Brian hesitates, asking if Tim is part of the Figure's collective, and when they deny this, he acquiesces, allowing himself and Alex to be taken in.
Issue Four
The Masked Figure informs Jessica about what the Operator is - a parasite that crawls into the cracks of your mind, consuming until there's nothing left, and swallowing your empty shell through the Ark. The Figure confirms that it's contagious, but admits that some people are unaffected while others catch it very easily, and it isn't sure how or why. When Jessica mentions that Taylor is also experiencing symptoms now, it tells her to bring Taylor to the abandoned house, since its isolation means there's little risk of spread. Adam and David seem to have reached a more affable resolution to their arguement, but on their way out of the forest, they spot the abandoned house and more importantly, the masked figure - which Adam recognizes from its brief inclusion in an entry of Marble Hornets. Still thinking it's nothing more than a fictional series (And the subject of his documentary), Adam insists on sticking around to try and get an interview with them, certain that they're back in costume in order to film a follow up to the orignal MH series. When Jessica and Taylor return to the house, he tries to introduce himself and schedule an interview, but Jessica reacts with bewildered fear, and when David tries to convince Adam to back off and let it go, Adam lashes out at him, and the two begin to have a violent brawl. The Masked Figure attempts to lead Taylor and Jessica out of this conflict, but the Operator shows up and all five of them are brought into the Ark. Adam and David continue to fight, and although David attempts to stop and hear the Masked Figure out, Adam refuses, shoving David off the ledge into the Ark's gut and chasing after the Masked Figure when it angrily admonishes him for feeding it. Taylor manages to find Jessica and tries to calm her down, but they are interrupted by the Operator once again - this time, Taylor stands up to have her own stand-off with it, just like Alex and Tim had in the original series.