New comic day is only a few days away and with a number of titles releasing it can be difficult to decide which comics you should pickup. So we are here to help. This week we preview Dread the Halls #1, Christmas 365 #1, and more.
While we are not the official voice of your decision, we want to help guide you in the right direction for comics releasing December 4, 2024.
Dread the Halls #1
Writer: Jordan Hart, Chris Ryall
Artist: Various
Publisher: Image Comics
The perfect holiday stocking stuffer-a collection of horror tales to read curled up by the light of the Yule log “Be of Good Fear!” Long before Americans celebrated horror on Halloween, the Victorians did it gathered around a fireplace on Christmas Eve. Dread the Halls honors this macabre tradition by wishing you and yours “Happy Holidays” with stories of ghosts, ghastly abominations, and vile creatures.
Covers by red-hot artists Maria Wolf, Marguerite Sauvage, wrapping-paper variant by Jordan Hart, and a holiday homage cover by Lee Ferguson, will allow you to spread the dread this season in horrifically festive style!
Christmas 365 #1
Writer: Mikey Way, Jonathan Rivera
Artist: Piotr Kowalski
Publisher: Dark Horse
From creators Mikey Way (My Chemical Romance) and Jonathan Rivera (Cave Carson has an Interstellar Eye) comes the most bizarre holiday comic yet! The holidays weren’t always so tough for Peter Rockwell and his family, but a tragic and challenging year finds them stressed out and drifting apart when they should be pulling together. After accepting the wisdom of a Santa Claus at his local mall, Peter hatches a plan to give his family the best year ever, one Christmas at a time!
Marvel Holiday Tales to Astonish #1
Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Publisher: Marvel
First, you’re invited to the Fantastic Four’s Holiday Party! But who are the uninvited guests? Then, in a tale of Hanukkahs past, can Kitty Pryde scramble to save the day while struggling to shop for gifts for her merry X-Men? And ring in the New Year, with Peter Parker and Miles Morales, as only Spider-Men can!
Long Cold Winter #1
Writer: Francesca Perillo
Artist: Stefano Cardoselli
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
In the not-too-distant future, the air on Earth has become unbreathable. However, a multinational company called Air Co. has constructed generators that provide oxygen for those who can afford it. Peace Dog, a desperate ex-soldier, who has been willing to do anything to obtain breathable air is haunted by his past and hunted by bounty hunters, though, he may have found a way out of his current predicament by helping a mysterious robot child escape the dangerous and congested city. But, someone from his past has no intention of letting him leave…alive.
Drive Like Hell TP
Writer: Rich Douek
Artist: Alex Cormack
Publisher: Dark Horse
Bobby Ray and Dahlia planned the perfect bank heist, and even stole the perfect getaway car. There’s just one little problem-it belongs to the devil himself, and he wants it back. Bad. When the job goes wrong, Bobby Ray and Dahlia find themselves embroiled in a high-octane chase across the highways, on the run from demonic cops, satanic bikers, and psychotic religious freaks, all of them after the car, and the mysterious artifact in its trunk. With all the forces of evil on their trail, there’s only one thing Bobby Ray and Dahlia can do-Drive Like Hell.
Masterpiece TP
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis
Artist: Alex Maleev
Publisher: Dark Horse
Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal’s criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, And they took the world’s most famous billionaire for a cool billion… before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again.
Ain’t No Grave TP
Writer: Skottie Young
Artist: Jorge Corona
Publisher: Image Comics
Eisner Award-winning writer Skottie Young and Transformers artist Jorge Corona – the team behind the hit series Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark – are back with a brand-new genre-bending tale of love, loss, bullets, and death: Ain’t No Grave!
This Unforgiven-style journey is an original macabre Western/fantasy tale for mature readers, told through a Guillermo Del Toro-esque lens. Ryder put her violent past behind her when she fell in love and became a mother. But that was before she learned it was all going to be taken away. It’s not the first time Ryder has been wanted. She picks her guns back up and rides to the city at the edge of the world to kill the one trying to rob her of her life… death.
Cemetery Kids Don’t Die TP
Writer: Zac Thompson
Artist: Daniel Irizarri
Publisher: Oni Press
The twenty-first century sucks hard, but it’s been made somewhat tolerable by the latest media innovation to finally unseat the iPhone. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep.
Now the obsession of millions around the globe, it’s also the one point of solace for four friends whose lives have been marred by trauma and dysfunction. Together, this group of ultra-online “Cemetery Kids” spend their nights roaming the open world of the most immersive and brutal horror game ever created: “Nightmare Cemetery.” Together they seek to dethrone an enigmatic humanoid monster known only as the “The King of Sleep.”
Which was fun-until one of them doesn’t wake up . . . and finds their consciousness locked inside a horror game that is anything but imaginary. Now, the three remaining Cemetery Kids must navigate the game’s forbidden landscape to rescue their friend . . . and pray that the secret lurking at its center doesn’t follow them home.
The Displaced TP
Writer: Ed Brisson
Artist: Luca Casalanguida
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
The city of Oshawa, Ontario is gone. Without a trace.
No one remembers it or the 170,000 missing people that also disappeared. The survivors who were lucky enough to be out of town when it happened are few, and strangely, their memories are fading fast. The only way to survive is to seek each other out and work together.
While being forgotten can have its upsides when it comes to less-than-legal means of making ends meet, the dwindling survivors will have to deal with the moral conflicts between them, along with the baseline of hopelessness in a world that left them behind.
As the variety of skills left between the remaining Displaced shrinks, what ends will they go to for their own survival?
Art of Something is Killing the Children HC
Writer: James Tynion IV
Artist: Werther Dell’Edera
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Since 2019, Something is Killing the Children has captivated comic fans, becoming a global phenomenon of the horror genre.
With over four and a half million units sold along with numerous award recognitions, Something Is Killing The Children has birthed an entire Slaughterverse with its unique visual language.
Take a closer look than ever at the bloody, moody, and soul-changing details of artist Werther Dell’Edera‘s amazing and often homaged art, delving deep into the development process of this landmark series!
This prestige, hardcover artbook features new commentary from James Tynion IV and Dell’Edera, as well as rare sketches and a collection of pages and covers, all curated by Dell’Edera.
