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Review: ‘Creepy’ #12
As each story gets better and better, readers will simply enjoy Creepy #12 and its collection of short horror tales. You will definitely get your dose of the macabre from the ghoulish host, Uncle Creepy. With a bit of scares, comedy, and gore added in each morality tale, there is definitely something here for everyone.
WRITTEN BY: Richard Corben, John Arcudi, Ron Marz, Dan Braun, Peter Bagge
ART BY: Richard Corben, Peter Bagge, Julian Totino Tedesco, Richard P. Clark
PUBLISHER: Dark Horse Comics
PRICE: $4.99
RELEASE: May 8th, 2013
In “Uncle Magnus,” a widow demands that her dead husband tell her where he stole their money. If his wife wants the money so badly, he will gladly make her wish come true and rise from the grave. In “Fishing, ” two brothers realize they are being used as bait by a magical creature. In “Role Models,” an evil cat and a talking dog are fighting each other while their human masters are looking on. In “Local Talent,” a director unknowingly hires a real-life monster for his horror movie. In “Pack Leader” an traumatized ex-soldier must deal with the numbing coldness and hunger wolves after his plane crashed in the snowy mountains.
My personal favorite in the collection is writer/artist Richard Corben’s “Uncle Magnus.” Corben provides a grim atmosphere with his excellent use of shadows. In just a few lines of dialogue, we know the greedy nephews are thieves who intend on stealing their dead uncle’s money. The nephews, who are rotten to the core, will learn a moral lesson when their dead uncle rises from the grave.
I really liked the supernatural twist in writer/artist Matthew Allison’s “Local Talent.” In a tribute to indie filmmaking, Allison narrates what a typical day is for a director. While becoming frustrated with budget and technical issues, the director has to deal with a diva who won’t stop complaining. In a big panel, Allison doesn’t hold back on the gore when the Horror Monster rips out the diva’s heart. Allison captures a caricature of the legendary Robert Evans as the producer.
Writer Ron Marz and artist Richard P. Clark craft a sinister tale about the survival of the fittest in “Fishing.” Marz uses fishing as the metaphor for “Are we the bait or the hook in life?” Clark illustrates the magical fairy as a provocative seductress in her introduction. The fairy catches the two brothers by surprise when she suddenly turns into a vicious monster with sharp fangs. Through wide shots, Clark creates an enchanting background with bright stars and the moon in the night sky.
Writer John Arcudi steers for the heart while artist Julian Totino Tedesco goes straight for the jugular in the incredibly somber, “Pack Leader.” Through captions, Arcudi keeps the readers inside the mind of a lost ex-soldier, who is trying to survive in the snowy mountains. In wide shots, Totino brushes the panels in white, as if the snow never ends. In a close-up, Totino wants readers to see the wolf with its one eye missing.
With tons of horror and wicked humor, “Creepy ” #12 has all that for readers and so much more. The “Creepy” anthology series always has such great storytellers to match with its wonderful black and white artwork.
4/5 Skulls
Reviewed by – Jorge Solis
Comics
‘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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