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Review: “Revival” # 22
“Revival” #22 keeps the action and plot twists building as the story sticks to its new setting. The whodunit mystery continues to unravel as regulars become suspects and a new threat rears its ugly head. The death count keeps piling up in this exciting “Revival” installment.
WRITTEN BY: Tim Seeley
ART BY: Mike Norton
PUBLISHER: Image Comics
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: July 23, 2014
Reviewed By Jorge Solis
For an entire day, the dead of rural Wisconsin suddenly came back to life. An endless parade of government agents, reporters, and scientists hound the “Revivers,” asking them why they have returned. Sheriff Dana Cypress now has to visit New York because there is a reviver on the loose. Her masked murderer may have been resurrected while he was in the middle of being cremated. As the Big Apple faces a new zombie threat, Dana’s dead sister, Em, is about to discover how big of a douche bag her boyfriend really is.
Writer Tim Seeley knows how to mix sex and violence in his narrative. In the opening pages, Seeley builds on the sexual attraction between Em and Rhodey Rash. As the sexual innuendo builds to a climax, the reader really starts to feel like a voyeur. Rhodey was secretly taping his intimate moments with Em, just so that he could make money off of her. The story then moves elsewhere, showing a painful depiction of a zombie baby being beaten.
I am very much liking the interaction between Dana and her new partner, Enrique Puig. On one hand, Dana has met her intellectual match as they both have the skills to be great detectives. On the other, Enrique can sense a barrier between them. Notice how persistent Enrique is as he tries to get her to say his first name, but she won’t.
Artist Mike Norton delivers a nice twist to the police procedural part of the storyline. Usually in these detective tales, we have the mandatory police chase. Norton delivers on the chase, adding a bead body falling down from the sky. In a wide shot, Norton captures the dead body diving face-first into the car’s windshield.
Norton illustrates a very creepy and twisted scene between Em and Rhodey. In his web cam show, Rhodey wears a leathery bondage mask during his presentation. Because he is also a reviver like Em, Rhodey isn’t afraid to slice himself up. Norton highlights the squirm-inducing moment, without going overboard, as Rhodey cuts his own penis off.
“Revival” #22 delivers cringe-worthy material that will keep you up late at night. I can’t wait to see how the next issue tops all these crazy moments.
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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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