Comics
[Comic Book Review] “Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Bestiary” #3 Will Send Chills Down Your Spine
An impressive installment, “Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Bestiary” #3 delivers disturbing sights that will bring chills down your spine. Each story in the horror anthology is a knockout when it comes to scares. The “Hellraiser” series have taken the comic book medium by storm, making me wish the movie sequels were more like this.
WRITTEN BY: Ben Meares, Ed Brisson, Mark Miller,
ART BY: Akiel Guzman, Alexis Ziritt, Carlos Magno
PUBLISHER: Boom! Studios
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: October 14, 2014
Reviewed By Jorge Solis
“Puzzled” follows a little boy who becomes obsessed with solving the ultimate puzzle. In order to make his son happy, a desperate father gives him the Lemarchand’s Box to play with. In “Conduit,” a cenobite is twisting a young man’s mind as he dreams about murder and demons. In “The Hunted: Part Three,” Pinhead realizes he has lost the battle against the gangsters who savagely destroyed his face. The ruler of Hell actually feels like a laughingstock after being defeated by mere mortals.
“Puzzled” is a frightening piece of what measures fathers will take to make their children happy. Writer Ben Meares takes readers inside the mind of a lonely father who has lost faith in himself and being a good parent. Artist Akiel Guzman has done a great job capturing the anguish and turmoil of a young man who can’t solve how to fix his own broken mind and put the pieces back together.
Writer Ed Brisson plays around with storytelling in “Conduit,” by starting with the ending first. We know what’s going to happen but we have to see how this murder actually takes place. Artist Aexis Ziritt delivers the insanity of a mentally disturbed mind in an impressive splash page. We get all the information we need through panel breaks and random images.
Saving the best for last, I love what Mark Miller and Meares have done with Pinhead in “TheHunted.” We see Pinhead at his worst, after having just lost everything. Pinhead is on a self-destructive path, leading to suicidal intentions. Carlos Magno illustrates the ruler of Hell surrounded by religious symbols.
Horror fans should not miss out on “Clive Barker’s Hellraiser Bestiary” #3. I cannot wait to read the next compilation of shorts in the next issue.
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.
You must be logged in to post a comment.