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Review: Hellraiser #11
“The Box of Sorrows” continues to emanate ghastly sighs in the latest issue of Hellraiser, and, once again, they hum a haunting symphony of pain and lust. Kirsty continues her reign as High Priestess of the Configuration, and Captain Elliot Spencer continues to seek its destruction. Except, now, protocol has become obsolete, and even the highest levels of intuition won’t help either of them. Read on for the skinny…
WRITTEN BY: Clive Barker, Robb Humphreys, Mark Miller
ART BY: Janusz Ordon, Stephen Thompson
PUBLISHER: BOOM!
RELEASE: Out Now
Witness Clive Barker’s long-awaited return to tell new chapters in the series’ official continuity—a trajectory that will forever change the Cenobites…and Pinhead! In this issue…the sense-shattering new reality of Hellraiser is here! It’s a fresh start for Kirsty Cotton and Pinhead. There are no rules! No one is safe! Clive Barker’s changing the way you look at HELLRAISER so don’t miss this new chapter in horror history!
Hellraiser #11 opens with a loud, brilliant CRASH!, and then immediately cuts to the quiet cityscape – the land of the Box, menacingly splattered black against a molten orange horizon. Here, in the darkness, Kirsty and the Cenobites are called by the box once again. Only this time, the Priestess makes an executive decision that angers the demonic forces who guide them all in their quest for pain and pleasure. Meanwhile, on a more earthly plane, Elliot Spencer recalls some crucial information about his previous life, leading his new comrades and himself to a distant land in pursuit of another box: the one that originally hurled him into the Configuration. Every page is fluidly tied together, yet they each stand out on their own. Stephen Thompson and Janusz Ordon continue to bring the story to life with their dimensional characters and meticulous attention to details on the page. As usual, the passion for this series shows on every page; there is not a single ink stroke out of place.
I can’t even begin to describe how absolutely brilliant this series is. Every month, this is the one comic that I look forward to the most. Every time I gaze at a new cover, or let a new book within millimeters of my fingertips, I am immediately brought back to the first time I experienced the world of the box. Clive Barker’s original novel on the Cenobites, The Hellbound Heart, was my first “grown-up” horror novel. Now that I look back on it, it was probably not something that the average 9-year-old should be reading. Then again, I wasn’t particularly average – well, I was, but I had a high reading level and an enduring love for literature that my peers could not fulfill. So, not giving a single shit, I sat on the stoop at school, reading about the Lament Configuration and indivisible pains and pleasures, while everyone else played kickball and derped out.
If you haven’t checked out this series yet, then you need to do so. Right now. Clive Barker has brought Hellraiser back to its glory days – before any of this Hellraiser: Revelations nonsense, when there was just Clive Barker, projecting his highly intelligent, compelling ideas to the masses through print and film. And now, we have a visually stunning, masterful continuation from BOOM! Studios, that I’m sure will continue to tickle our obsessive little fancies for a long time.
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‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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