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.
Elvira Meets Vincent Price #5
By: David Avallone, Juan Samu, Anthony Marques, J. Bone, Dave Acosta
Type: Cover C – Marques & Bone; Cover B – Samu; Cover A – Acosta
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/
Summary: A famous ‘scream queen’ actress is missing, and Elvira and Vincent Price join forces again to find her even if it means literally breaking the fourth wall and entering the world of a slasher movie. Can the Mistress of the Dark save the Final Girl before a sadistic director trap her forever in a digital nightmare? Meta-thrills, chills, and bad puns from writer David Avallone (Bettie Page, Drawing Blood) and Juan Samu! And the mistress of the dark has never looked better under this busty bevy of covers: Acosta! Samu! Marques/Bone and a photo of the lady herself!
***** ***** *****
Human Remains #6
By: Peter Milligan, Sally Cantirino, Josh Hixson
Type: Cover A – Cantirino; Cover B – Hixson
Publisher: Vault Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.vaultcomics.com/
Summary: Certain that the life-forms are trying to communicate, General Sullivan turns to pseudoscience for a way to talk back. But has he awoken something real, something that makes them even more dangerous?
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Daisy #4
By: Joana Lafuente, Colin Lorimer
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: The town of Brimount has been purged by a judgment too hideous to imagine. And now transported and transfigured, Daisy has shed her broken and twisted form and now stands in beauty, power, and glory. But the children who shared her afflictions and heritage are not healed as Daisy was promised, and their own metamorphoses draw back the curtain on the monstrous lie hidden within Creation.
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Evil Ernie #4
By: Scott Lobdell, Ariel Medel, Arthur Suydam
Type: Cover A – Suydam
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/
Summary: Hell is Hot. Really, Really Hot. But Ernie is hotter. It’s also been said that Hell is cold. Really, Really Cold. Not Cool, but Cold. You know what else wasn’t cool? Ernest Gleckman. Our hero — fighting the very definition of a raging inner demon. These two are gonna have to work something out, especially in light of the fact that there’s a girl involved Evil Ernie first appeared in December 1991! Celebrate 30 years of CHAOS!
***** ***** *****
Draculina #2
By: Christopher Priest, Michael Sta. Maria, Collette Turner, Rose Besch, Guillem March, Rafael Kayanan
Type: Cover A – Turner; Cover B – Besch; Cover C – March; Cover D – Kayanan; Cover E – Cosplay
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/
Summary: Draculina’s secret origin begins in an ancient tower more than four centuries ago where her mother Lilith, desperate to free her people from ruthless oppressors, made a deal with the demon Belial to bear his children. Now, as Katie-Draculina’s human alter-ego-lays dying, the mystery of Draculina’s two lives is revealed as two sides of the same woman struggle for control. Meanwhile Belial, now retired from the demon business, has been alerted to Draculina’s presence in this prime reality, and seeks to regain control over his rebellious stepchild.
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Devil Tree #4
By: Keith Rommel, Wolfgang Schwandt
Summary: The killer is ramping up the fear, ready to give the tree what it wants: death. Meanwhile, Jim’s connection to the tree and the evil living within the branches calls to him and he’s the only one that can hear it.
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Devil Tree #1
Note: 2nd Printing
By: Keith Rommel, Wolfgang Schwandt
Summary: A ruthless serial killer brought his victims to an ancient oak tree. The torment the victims endured is said to have seeped into the grounds around the tree that still stands to this day, haunted and visited by thousands every year. Based on a true story.
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