Umbrella Academy, Stillwater and the Other Best Horror Comics for Halloween at Home
Rounding up some of the best spooky stories to pick up before the holiday if you’re spending Halloween at home.
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WARNING: The following contains minor spoilers for Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death, Stillwater, Spy Island, We Only Find Them When They’re Dead, and Razorblades: The Horror Magazine, all on sale now.
Halloween is just around the corner, and while it might be necessary to celebrate a little differently, that doesn’t mean the holiday is cancelled. Even if celebrating from home, there are plenty of scary movies to watch, and just as many horror comics. Here are five of the best horror comics sure to deliver chills and thrills this Halloween.
Tales from the Umbrella Academy: You Look Like Death
From Gerard Way, Shaun Simon, I.N.J. Culbard, and Nate Piekos of Blambot, a ghostly fan-favorite character arc from Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy makes its way to the comic book page in this telling of Klaus’ journey out into the world. While the Netflix adaptation saw Klaus down on his luck just before stumbling into the open arms of a very wealthy sugar mama only to accidentally start a cult, what the book has to up the ante can be summed up with exactly four words: Monkey vampire crime lord. Between that and the ghosts, there are more than enough scares on hand to classify this book as a Halloween all-star.
Stillwater
Stillwaters is a trip into the horrors of small-town life, by Chip Zdarsky, Ramon K Perez, Mike Spicer, and Rus Wooton starts with a thud more than a bang. After Daniel loses his job and gets into a fight with a bouncer, more than just his ego is bruised. His friend Tony is in the midst of trying to cheer him up when Daniel receives a strange delivery at his home. He’s been summoned to the sleepy town of Stillwater to deal with the estate of a distant relative he didn’t know he had. Daniel and Tony don’t get to enjoy their stay in Stillwater, unfortunately, when they witness a child fall to his death. When the citizens of Stillwater show little to no concern, it becomes clear that something sinister is going on, and the friends know entirely too much.
Spy Island
The Bermuda Triangle has something of a reputation, to say the least. This reputation is embraced, twisted, and warped into something scary and hilarious in Spy Island by Chelsea Cain, Lia Miternique, Elise McCall, Rachelle Rosenberg, Joe Caramagna, and Stella Greenvoss. In a world where carnivorous mermaids are an endangered species, everyone is somebody else, and that mime you smoked a cigarette with might just be your long lost father, nothing is considered too much. Reading like a mash-up of Archer and Ugly Americans, this series really is its own island. Aside from the phenomenal and fantastic world-building, the supplemental art and mixed media compositions by Stella Greenvoss bring the series to life in a way that major comics rarely are.
We Only Find Them When They’re Dead
In the 24th century, man has embraced the stars, not unlike many other science fiction tales before this one. We Only Find Them When They’re Dead by Al Ewing, Simone di Meo, Mariasara Miotti, and AndWorld Design creates a vision of the future that is both serene and sensational in its horrors. “The Gods are always beautiful. And the Gods are always dead,” sums up the heart of this series best. The economy of the future is in harvesting the corpses of massive, interstellar space gods. Their armor, flesh, and bone are dissected and sold, all under the watchful eye of a governing body with a very itchy trigger finger for any who might try and skim off the top. But this isn’t enough for Captain Georges Malik, and he is determined to do what none have ever done before. He’s going to take his crew into the void and find himself a living god.
Razorblades: The Horror Magazine
Razorblades is a new quarterly horror anthology created and curated by James Tynion IV and Steve Fox of Tiny Onion Studios. Featuring haunting stories and art from creators such as Andy Belanger, Aaron Campbell and Jock, Razorblades is sure to scratch any demented itch being felt this holiday season. The best part is that it’s pay what you can on Tiny Onion Studios’ website, with print copies still available in multiple formats.
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