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.
Count Crowley: Amateur Midnight Monster Hunter #3
By: Lukas Ketner, Lauren Affe, David Dastmalchian, Frank Cvetkovic
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: If sobriety is supposed to bring some kind of “serenity,” Jerri Bartman certainly ain’t feeling it yet! Desperate to help her new werewolf friend, Jerri learns some startling history about Vincent Frights and his time in the trenches of WWII. Meanwhile, the lunar clock is ticking as an inquisitive vampire grows increasingly curious about the new host of the Count Crowley show.
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She Bites #1
By: Hedwig Hale, Alberto Hernandez R.
Type: Cover A – Hernandez R
Publisher: Scout Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.scoutcomics.com/
Summary: Elsie Baker is a 134-year-old vampire in the body of a 9-year-old girl. Sick and tired of stupid adults treating her like a lost little girl and not letting her buy cigarettes, Elsie decides to hire a babysitter to be her chaperone. Enter Brenda Zielinski, a suicidal teenager in search of some quick cash so she can buy a one-way ticket to Scotland to jump off a cliff. Despite the generous payday, it turns out that babysitting a vampire might be more trouble than it’s worth.
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Locust Ballad of Men #1
By: Massimo Rosi, Alex Nieto
Publisher: Scout Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.scoutcomics.com/
Summary: Are you ready to return to the world of locusts? Max’s journey, revealed in a series of flashes between past and present, brings us closer and closer to Ford’s lair. However, proximity to Ford is the very antithesis of safety as the fanatical cult leader now seems increasingly ready to devastate everything in the name of his insane religious vision.
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Faithless III #6 (of 6)
By: Brian Azzarello, Maria Llovet, Cathy Kwan
Type: Cover A – Llovet; Cover C – 25 Copy Kwan
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Three years in the making, the finale of Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet’s unprecedented erotic thriller trilogy arrives! What fate will await Faith and a familiar friend, as everything comes to a head?
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Grim #3
By: Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano, Christian Ward, Jenny Frison
Type: Cover D – 10 Copy Ward Variant; Cover C – Frison; Cover B – Foil Flaviano; Cover B – Foil Flaviano; Cover F – FOC Reveal Lee Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Jess’s excursion to the world of the living yields grave consequences when her boss imposes some intense penalties. However, it will take more than that to keep Jess from breaking the rules, especially with the mystery of why she alone can travel between worlds motivating her
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Silver Coin #12
By: Stephanie Phillips, Michael Walsh, Cully Hamner
Type: Cover A – Walsh; Cover B – Hamner
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: It’s early 1945 and the end of World War II is still months away. A small unit of American soldiers faces a contingent of German troops in the Italian Alps. When a fierce snowstorm traps the Americans, THE SILVER COIN asks the soldiers to pay a steep toll if they want to survive the night. A new chapter in the acclaimed horror anthology from STEPHANIE PHILLIPS, JAMES TYNION IV, JOHNNIE CHRISTMAS, PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE, and MICHAEL WALSH is out this month.
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Rad Wraith #2
By: Tristan Gallagher, Christian Dibari
Publisher: n/a
Summary: Grom has been feeling a bit odd since he died. He isn’t sleeping well, his skateboard is talking to him, and his killers seem to be dropping like flies. Can he shake this curse or is he damned forever and what the *%$# is a Rad Wraith?
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Nyx #8
By: Christos Gage, Marc Borstel, Geebo Vigonte, Alvaro Lopez
Type: Cover C – Vigonte; Cover D – Lopez
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: Nyx has been trying to save her siblings from the genetic curse of their demonic and human sides -a curse that could cause their utter destruction! But now a crisis looms as her brother, Unison, comes into his cosmic powers and threatens to consume all of reality! Nyx must team up with her partners from the swinging ’70s – the Vampirella and Pantha of that far-out era – to stop the end of everything. But if it comes down to it, can she kill her own brother? She’ll have to if she’s going to save the universe itself!
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Skybound Presents Afterschool #2 (of 4)
By: Kate Herron, Leila Leiz, Veronica Fish, Briony Redman
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Skybound’s new horror anthology returns to teach those teens a lesson with another chilling standalone story. In this issue, KATE HERRON (Marvel Studios’ Loki), BRIONY REDMAN, and LEILA LEIZ present a horrifying tale soaked in blood and feathers? ‘Scratches to mark you, a feather to warn you, then it comes ’ According to urban legend, if you try to get rid of your baby, a monstrous stork will force you to keep it. But surely that can’t be true, can it? Leah and her friends are about to find out about just how true it is in The Storkening!
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Alice Ever After #4 (of 5)
By: Dan Panosian, Giorgio Spalletta, Stephanie Hans
Type: Cover A – Panosian; Cover B – Hans
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com
Summary: Alice, at the mercy of her father and Dr. Madsen, faces a terrifying danger, as well as a ghoulish truth that is finally revealed. The secrets she carries would be too much for her family’s reputation, and Dr. Madsen could do the unthinkable to silence her forever. Will someone who’s helped Alice in the past once again come to her aid? Or will her mind be lost forever?
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Bunny Mask Hollow Inside #3
By: Paul Tobin, Andrea Mutti
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: Bee Foster and Bunny Mask, together at last! But even as they meet, the Hollow is on the hunt, and with Bee staggered by a loss of identity, there’s no-one more hollow, more worthy to hunt, than Bee herself! Even Bunny Mask will be challenged when this new sickness comes calling! Each issue of BUNNY MASK: THE HOLLOW INSIDE features 24 pages of story and art with a cardstock cover!
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Ocean Will Take Us #4
By: Rich Douek, Carlos Olivares
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: Elizabeth has gone missing, and the gang will stop at nothing to find her – even if it means facing down the swim team on their own. But, as they uncover the sinister motives driving the cult’s activities, they learn that they, and the entire town, are in deeper danger than they ever imagined.
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Monstrous Book of the Dead #2 (of 4)
By: Gregory Wright, A. Shay Hahn
Publisher: Source Point Press
Publisher Link: https://sourcepointpress.com/
Summary: How far would you go to bring back a loved one? Two mummies, armed with the Book of the Dead, plan to resurrect the missing member of their family. But a rogue archaeologist wants the secrets of life and death for himself, and he has an army of robots programmed to defeat our bandaged heroes. Throw in desperate battles on a moving train, an ancient Egyptian phoenix, and the Forbidden Library, and you’ve got a monstrous story full of action
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Nook #2 (of 3)
By: Caleb Thusat, Marcelo Biott, Martha Webby
Publisher: Source Point Press
Publisher Link: https://sourcepointpress.com/
Summary: A young girl and her family escape WWII Germany only to find that their new home is haunted by a dark past and a cat named Nook. Avery’s new friend revealed the history of the old house and how the past just might be the key to saving her future
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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: Time is a River
By: Dave Stewart, Mike Mignola, Mark Laszlo
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: When Hellboy accidentally left eclectic academic Lajos in a ghostly version of Budapest in The Miser’s Gift, he didn’t realize how far-reaching the consequences would be! As timelines get crossed, reality starts to crumble and Hellboy must return to the ghostly city to recover Lajos before it’s too late.
Mike Mignola and Márk László, along with colorist Dave Stewart, return with an explosive one-shot to continue the story they began in The Miser’s Gift, part of the Hellboy Winter Special from January 2020.
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Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death #1
By: Tonci Zonjic, Craig Rousseau, Dave Stewart, Thomas Sniegoski, Mike Mignola
Type: Tonci Zonjic Variant Cover
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: Returned from their adventures on a secret island, Hellboy and the Professor move with the B.P.R.D. from New Mexico to Connecticut. The relocation is tough on Hellboy: is he just homesick, or have scrambled memories from the island gripped the supernatural whippersnapper? Meanwhile, word of Hellboy’s survival has also reached an unknown enemy, who failed to kill him once before but is determined not be fooled again . . .
It’s a roaring start to the second Young Hellboy series, from Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and cowriter Thomas Sniegoski, with art by Craig Rousseau and colors by Dave Stewart.
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Grim #1
By: Stephanie Phillips, Flaviano
Type: 4th Printing
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Jessica Harrow is dead. But her journey has only just begun! Discover the world of the afterlife, where Jessica has been recruited as a Reaper, tasked with ferrying countless souls to their final destination. But unlike the rest of the Reapers, she has no memory of what killed her and put her into this predicament. In order to unravel the mystery of her own demise, she’ll have to solve an even bigger one – where is the actual GRIM REAPER? From acclaimed writer Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn) and fan favorite artist Flaviano (New Mutants) comes a bold new vision of what comes after, and the nature of death itself!
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