This is a new column, for the horror comics fans, as often heard on the Baron’s Crypt podcast shows, which are changing formats for our eighth season, and we do more comic reviews on this site hence the best place to have them presented.
Last Book You’ll Ever Read #5
By: Cullen Bunn, Leila Leiz
Type: Cover A – Leiz; Cover B – Hickman
Publisher: Vault Comics
Summary: As the Wilding continues to change the world, enemies close in on Olivia and Conner. Given sanctuary by believers who hang on her every word, Olivia gets a glimpse of what humanity is truly becoming. Her fans, though, might prove every bit as dangerous as the people who want her dead.
***** ***** *****
Purgatori #4
By: Ray Fawkes, Alvaro Sarraseca, Cosplay
Type: Cover A – Fuso; Cover C – Fox; Cover D – Cosplay
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/
Summary: Purgatori! She’s got the memories of thousands of people in her head! But who is she, really? She might be able to figure it out if only people would stop trying to kill her, eat her, become her, conquer her, feed themselves to her, die in entertaining ways, all of the above… literally all the time. But maybe that’s someone’s plan? Maybe if she stops and thinks, everyone’s in real trouble. Let’s find out!
***** ***** *****
Kiss Phantom Obsession #5
By: Ian Edginton, Celor, Photo: Stuart Sayger
Type: Cover B – Sayger Cover E – Photo; Cover D – Celor
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/
Summary: KISS has faced it all: megalomaniacs, giant monsters and robots, killer android, and that’s all in the first 4 issues of this series! Now, as it all comes to a cymbal-smashing conclusion, can the greatest Rock N’ Roll band in the world survive the final showdown the mastermind behind it all? Led by Jae Lee, this issue also features amazing covers by Tim Seeley, Series artist Celor and another glorious photo of the bad itself – KISS!
***** ***** *****
Mega #2
By: Salvador Sanz
Publisher: Red 5 Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.red5comics.com/
Summary: The gigantic creature known as ‘The Salamander’ has taken the city of Montevideo by storm, destroying everything in its path. A little girl, advised by her apparently dead grandfather invoked ‘Mega,’ another giant creature to stop the menace. Now the two monsters will clash, and the battle will bring the world to its knees.
***** ***** *****
Out #4
By: Rob Williams, Will Conrad, Tim Bradstreet, Marco Lesko
Publisher: Fallout 4 Magazines
Summary: In the waning days of World War Two, with the Allies advancing, a desperate Nazi officer unearths an ancient force of evil that he hopes will turn the tide of battle: a vampire. To test the power of his secret weapon, he unleashes the monster on an unsuspecting group of Allied POWs. It’s up to Nocona, a Comanche language expert, to communicate with the vampire to find out what it really wants
***** ***** *****
Heathens #3
By: Cullen Bunn, Sami Kivela, Heath Amodio
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: The Heathens threaten to return to their villainous ways, destroying any chance to kill the Ripper and force him back to hell in the process.
***** ***** *****
My Date With Monsters #3
By: Paul Tobin, Andy Macdonald
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: Machi is being strangled. Croak meets a fox woman. Risa goes on a string of terrible dates, and Genka finally manages to have a good idea. Meanwhile, all the horrors of the world of nightmares are creeping closer, more than a few people are going to die and someone’s going to end up bald, but, hey: at least there’s a dog.
***** ***** *****
Maw #5 (of 5)
By: Jude Ellison S. Doyle, A. L. Kaplan, Leila Del Duca
Type: Cover A – Kristantina; Cover B – Del Duca
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Diana, the ethereal, larger-than-life feminist commune leader, prepares Marion to become the vessel for all of the rage and suffering of the commune – and of women everywhere. * Marion and the other women on the commune take their revenge on Chuck and Howie as scapegoats for the sins of mankind? * But will their brutal justice resolve the seemingly endless cycle of violence, or will it continue until it devours the entire island-and perhaps even the entire world?
***** ***** *****
Walking Dead Deluxe #31
By: Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, David Finch, Dave Mccaig, Julian Totino Tedesco
Type: Cover A – Finch & McCaig; Cover B – Adlard & McCaig; Cover C – Del Mundo; Cover D – Tedesco
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Michonne enters the arena, while Rick is offered a way out of Woodbury.
***** ***** *****
Silver Coin #8
By: Matthew Rosenberg, Michael Walsh
Type: Cover A – Walsh; Cover B – Boss
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: When an executive at a 1960s stock brokerage acquires a collection of antiquities, the gap between the haves and the have-nots becomes painfully clear. The price of THE SILVER COIN keeps going up, even as the fortune of its owner plummets. The next chapter in the hit horror anthology.
***** ***** *****
Home Sick Pilots #11
By: Dan Watters, Caspar Wijngaard, David Romero
Type: Cover B – Romero
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: NEW STORY ARC The Old James House might turn out to be Ami’s only hope but it’s still missing a piece. And if anyone’s going to survive, that final ghost must be found.
***** ***** *****
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