Hello Darkness #17
By: Robert Hack, Rebeca Puebla, Jenny Frison, Jeehyung Lee, Michael Dialynas
Type: Cover A – Puebla, Cover B – Frison Variant, Cover C – Full Art Lee Variant, Cover D – Boom 20th Anniversary Variant, Cover E – Puebla Full Art Variant, Cover F – Dialynas Boom 20th Anniversary Full Art Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Tis the season for fearsome frights! Get ready for a gruesome stocking stuffer of Ho-Ho-Horror with these tooth-gnashing tales! Witness a dark hunger that can never be sated in The Pothole by award-winning cartoonist Tyler Crooke. Then, take a walk down memory lane with Recollect by Zack Kaplan and Dennis Menheree as they unfurl a crime that cannot be forgotten and cannot be forgiven.
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I Saw Santa: A Spawn Universe Christmas Story #2
By: Chris Killian, Andrew Sanders, Thomas Nachlik, Brett Booth, Jonathan Wayshak, Daniel Henriques
Type: Cover A – Booth, Cover B – Wayshak Variant, Cover C – Henriques Variant
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Santa is still tormented by the scenes set for him by a deranged serial killer. He knows there is only one course of action. A showdown between Father Christmas and a soul so twisted it would make the Devil weep.
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Creepshow: Volume 4 #4
By: Sina Grace, Joel Farrelly, Arif Prianto, Ryusei Yamada, Lee Loughridge, Lorenzo De Felici, Ramon Villalobos
Type: Cover A – De Felici, Cover B – Villalobos Variant
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: First, GLAAD award-nominated writer Sina Grace (Superman: The Harvests of Youth) and Ramon Villalobos hit the road for a tale about what it means to literally spin your wheels at work! Then, Joel Farrelly and Ryusei Yamada take you to Japan to experience falling in love, a disapproving dad, and the monstrous cost of being yourself!
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Sleep #7
By: Zander Cannon
Type: Cover A – Cannon, Cover B – Cannon Variant
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: When Jonathan Reason falls asleep, he becomes… something terrible. Captured by scientists at a lab after inadvertently weakening his alter ego, Jon begins hatching a plan to escape, only to hear about a possible cure.
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Ice Cream Man #45
By: W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, Alison Sampson
Type: Cover A – Morazzo & O’Halloran, Cover B – Sampson Variant
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: A voyeuristic, Hitchcockian homage wherein we watch as a wheelchaired watch-man watches the windows of a weary world of wahoos, wackos, and wannabes.
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Gunpowder Prophets #3
By: Justin Jordan, Patrick Piazzalunga
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: Huck and Marley killed the bikers and rescued America (the kid, not the country)… only to run right into the long arm of the law. That’s a problem. But not as big a problem as the bikers coming back from the dead. And boy, are they mad.
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Flow #4
By: Paula Sevenbergen, Claudia Balboni
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: Desperate to end their suffering, Moe, Conley, and Alister finally reach the house of Dara, the girl they once tormented, but she’s gone. So, they head to the scene of their childhood crimes, the now-eerie old campgrounds, where they’re hit with searing pain and loss of bodily control. Just when it seems things can’t get any worse in this penultimate issue, they do, a lot worse!
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Far Down Below #1
By: Christopher Condon, Jacob Phillips, Gegê Schall, Nathan Kempf
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER…OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA
In the muggy Pennsylvania summer of 1983, teen friends Jeff and Brian seek escape from rainy day boredom by exploring Brian’s abandoned – and apparently haunted – family home on the other side of town. What they find instead is a secret that will unlock the doors to adventure and danger as they descend beneath the surface, encounter terrifyingly strange creatures, and journey far, far down below to discover a strange new world…and themselves.
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The Pale Knight #1
By: Peter Milligan, Val Rodrigues, Nick Marinkovich
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: England, 1349. Sir Hugh de Grey, the Pale Knight, returns from war to find a land ravaged by the Black Death, and his son dying of the plague. When he prays to God to save his son’s life, it is not God who answers‚ but Death himself. And Death is willing to cut a deal. The Pale Knight is a horrifying descent into a phantasmagorical Hell.
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Orla #5
By: John Lees, Sally Cantirino
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: You are cordially invited to the Valentine’s Day wedding of Harriet and Josh. Should anyone present know of any reason that this couple should not be joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace. Orla Bard might have a few things to say. As her two lives collide, can Orla protect those she cares about from the carnage of The Ick? Can true love prevail? Or is a Valentine’s Day massacre on the cards? All will be revealed in this heart-stopping conclusion.
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T.A.M.A. #5
By: Adam Schlagman, Doug Pasko, Daniel HDR, Ashley Witter, Agnes Garbowska
Type: Cover A – Witter, Cover B – Garbowska Labubu Homage Variant
Publisher: Panick Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://panickentertainment.threadless.com/
Summary: The penultimate issue of the sold out hit mini-series of the summer arrives as Kit, his friends and frenemies are on the run from the digital pet that’s gotta kill ‘em all TAMA. How many will perish at the claws of the deadly virtual Companimal and will anyone live to tell the tale? Plus, what happens when TAMA EVOLVES?! Featuring stunning interior art from recent Ringo-nominated superstar artist Daniel HDR (Masters of the Universe: Revolution).
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Roots Of Madness #3
By: Stephanie Williams, Letizia Cadonici, Juliet Nneka
Type: Cover A – Nneka, Cover B – Cadonici
Publisher: Ignition Press
Publisher Link: https://ignitionpress.com/
Summary: Etta’s research is taking her to some strange places, but she’s also starting to see results, even if it’s not always the results she expected or even hoped for. Part of this could be down to that even though she is seeking a connection to the women in her family who preceded her, the land that they once worked and that she now finds herself exploring, has a much darker history it would rather stay a secret than allow to be celebrated or exposed. The only trouble is, the more Etta uncovers, the more she is determined to find out. And just what is happening with those rabbits?! The mystery of Roots of Madness goes deeper and deeper, as writer Stephanie Williams (Street Sharks; Nubia & the Amazons) and artist Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter) dig further into their tale of cosmic horror! Look for the gorgeous cover by fine artist Juliet Nneka, a regular variant cover artist at DC Comics.
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Event Horizon: Dark Descent #4
By: Christian Ward, Tristan Jones, Jeffrey Love, Aaron Campbell
Type: Cover A – Love, Cover B – Campbell
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publisher Link: https://www.idwpublishing.com/
Summary: With nearly all the Event Horizon’s crew dead or consumed by Paimon’s servant—a demonic wheel that grows larger as it adds humans to its writhing body—the King of Hell finally turns his attention to Captain Kilpack! The ship’s God-fearing captain will learn fear of something far more sinister than his Creator. And he will experience things no one should ever live to see…This issue: Learn the truth of the film’s infamous blood orgy!
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Return To Sleepy Hollow #2
By: Casey Gilly, Savanna Mayer, Audrey Estok
Type: Cover A – Mayer, Cover B – Estok
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Publisher Link: https://www.idwpublishing.com/
Summary: Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow (1999) continues in Return to Sleepy Hollow!
The Van Tassel mortuary is overflowing with bodies–—residents of Sleepy Hollow who died tangled in roots, decorated in flowers, or blanketed in soil. The constables insist that the deaths are accidents, but Ichabod and Katrina suspect that evil has returned to plague the town. As their investigation leads them deeper into the Western Woods, Lotte, Katrina’s daughter, begins an investigation of her own by communicating with the spirits of the dead. Screaming to be heard, the lingering souls may hold the answers the living is looking for.
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