EVENT HORIZON To MONSTERS IN LOVE: 31 New Horror Comics To Read This Spring

The Marvel Comics miniseries set in the Alien franchise continues with this five-issue story from writer Saladin Ahmed (Wolverine) and artist Carlos Nieto (Ultimate Black Panther). It’s set on a world overrun by Xenomorphs, where the remnants of humanity are protected by a trio of warlords known as the Three Kings.

When the series begins, a mysterious wanderer has targeted the Three Kings for elimination, and he’s ready to go through the hordes of monsters waiting at their gates in order to obtain his revenge.

The press release for this Image Comics one-shot, written by Joe Pruett (Viking Moon) and illustrated by Dalibor Talajić (Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe), describes it as a timeless tale of horror.

Its titular character is a being cursed to wander the Earth and avenge the innocent. He marks his deeds with a tag of “Kilroy was here.” In this story, on the eve of the “war to end all wars,” he’ll discover his entire life has been a lie.

In this five-issue Mad Cave Studios miniseries, co-writers Tim Seeley (Godzilla) and writer/actor Ryan O’Nan (Fargo, Tracker) team with artist Paolo Armitano (Heavy Metal Magazine) for a story that takes the setup of Shakespeare’s immortal classic, Hamlet, and adds some horrific flavor.

That spice comes in the form of a malevolent, shark-toothed and knife-fingered entity, named Luther, out to manipulate an angry and grieving teenager who has some serious questions about his father’s death. And yes, the title is a deliberate reference to Nine Inch Nails’ classic album.

Do you enjoy classic literature and giant monsters? Then IDW has the perfect book for you! Each issue of this four-issue miniseries is a one-shot that places the titular King of the Monsters into a different literary classic.
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The series kicks off with a tale written in iambic pentameter by Adam Tierney and featuring art by Sean Peacock (Blood Honey), where it’s not just Shakespeare’s titular lovers who are doomed. Everyone in Verona is at Godzilla’s mercy as he rampages through the Italian city.

The issue also features a backup story by Tom Scioli (Writer/artist of the original Godzilla: Monsterpiece Theater mini-series) titled “Robin Hood and the Monster of Nottingham.”

This four-issue miniseries from writers Tim Daniel & David “D.B.” Andry (Crush Depth), artist Maan House (The Cemetarians), and Oni Press brings together two horror subgenres, perfect for the imaginative, budget-free medium of comics: the haunted house story and aquatic horror.

It’s the tale of a centuries-old Spanish mission, a nun hunting for a secret, and a marine archaeologist excavating a shipwreck that lies beneath the mission’s waters.

A billionaire doomsday prepper’s meticulous plans go horribly awry in this five-issue mini series from writer Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier), artists David Lapham (Stray Bullets) and Bill Sienkiewicz (New Mutants), and Bad Idea Comics.

That’s because Tuttle Barrows planned for everything when he constructed a massive, sealed habitat atop a protected, ancient, freshwater, glacial cave, except for the thing that lurked beneath the layers of ice in the freshwater vault.

In this Image Comics series from writer/artist Lorenzo De Felici (Void Rivals), the lives of a professional killer and a high school teacher become entwined by a terrifying, mysterious force.

One of the cool things about the IDW Dark line of comics is that it’s able to do prequels and sequels to some of your favorite horror films. They did the former for Event Horizon with Dark Descent, a miniseries set to be collected in a single volume on July 28.

The latter kicks off in Event Horizon: Inferno, a miniseries from Dark Descent writer Christian Ward and artist Rob Carey (Aliens: Resistance), which FANGORIA readers recently got a preview of.
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The story is set 200 years after the events of the film. It follows the exploits of a billionaire and the hapless fleet he’s recruited to uncover the secrets of the titular wrecked ship.

Michael Chaves, the director of the last several installments of The Conjuring franchise, makes his comics writing debut in this six-issue, Image Comics miniseries, featuring art by Matthew Roberts (Universal Monsters: Creature From the Black Lagoon Lives).

The story is set in medieval, war-torn France and follows a young girl who seemingly receives a miracle when her father returns to life as the undead titular protector. Together, they’ll confront murderers, black magic, wandering armies, wild animals, and the fact that her father might have been a monster even before he came back from the dead.

Body horror goes Bollywood in this four-issue miniseries from debut writer Aditya Bidikar and artist SOM (Crocodile Black). It follows an obsessed Bollywood super fan who, after her idol announces her retirement from films, decides to take over the actress’s life. The press release describes the book as perfect for fans of The Substance and David Cronenberg.

DC Comics’ mistress of magic graduates to her first ongoing series from writer/artist Jamal Campbell, who worked on the character’s mini-series from last year. This book follows the titular, newly minted, fishnet stockings-clad Prime Magus as she travels the country and battles supernatural entities.

This one-shot spin-off from Boom! Studios’ horror anthology, Hello Darkness, collects some of that publication's more disturbing tales as well as some brand new stomach churning stories.

It features work by Mark Bouchard (It took Luke), Rye Hickman (SFSX(Safe Sex)), Derick Jones (Nose Bleed), Michael W. Conrad (Plague House), Martín Morazzo (Ice Cream Man), Jeremy Bastian (Cursed Pirate Girl), Ziyan Qiu (Hello Darkness), Jenna Cha (Black Stars Above), and Robert Hack (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina).

This Dark Horse Comics series, which chronicles the time Mike Mignola’s paranormal investigator, Hellboy, and globetrotting archeologist, Anastasia Bransfield, spent together as partners in romance and fighting evil, returns with a one-shot designed as the perfect jumping on point for new readers. It’s co-written by Mignola and his frequent collaborator Christopher Golden and features art by Alex Nieto (Locust).
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When the story begins, Hellboy and Anastasia have come to a cozy village to visit with friends, where they’ll be forced to investigate a local ghost who’s begun to urgently wail.

In this four-issue supernatural horror series from novelist and comic writer Jeremy Robinson (30Seven, Godzilla: Rage Across Time), artist Tiago Palma (X-Men: United), and Vault Comics, an unlikely partnership is formed between a demon kicked out of hell and a nun banished from her order over a botched exorcism. The duo must work together to uncover a conspiracy that threatens all creation.
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IDW Dark’s recently concluded Return to Sleepy Hollow miniseries gave readers a comic book sequel to the 1999 Tim Burton film. For this five-issue miniseries, the publishing line has tapped novelist and comic writer Delilah S. Dawson (The X-Files Case Files-Florida Man, House of Idyll) and artist Jose Jaro (Dungeons & Dragons: Fortune Finder) to do a prequel that fleshes out two stories alluded to in the film.

Find out how the twin Archer sisters learned their arcane powers, and how the vicious killer known as The Hessian became the decapitated, phantasmal revenant known as The Headless Horseman.

The press release for this new series from writer Rob Guillory and artist Sam Lotfi (The creative team of the sci-fi comic Mosely) and Ignition Press describes it as a terrifying thrill ride for fans of Event Horizon and The Abyss.

It’s set in a dystopian future where humanity’s last energy resource is a mineral located deep underground in a subterranean maze of tunnels. The story follows a rookie miner who cracks open a corporate secret that awakens the inner demons of his fellow miners in the underground depths.

This four-issue, horror-comedy series from writer Rob Williams (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D: The Ghost Ships of Labrador), artist Nil Vendrell Pallach (Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins), and Dark Horse Comics is a great example of comics giving you combinations you never knew you needed.

It’s essentially the 1985 senior-citizens-and-sci-fi movie Cocoon meets a creature feature. It follows a group of aging former Hollywood stars from a retirement community on a field trip who decide to help a baby kaiju find its way home and evade the military agents pursuing it.

Writer Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) and artist Lewis LaRosa (Punisher Max) combine cosmic horror and pulse pounding action in this four-issue series from Bad Idea Comics. In it, the titular massive object crashes from deep space into the heart of Baltimore, obliterating 16 square blocks.
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Three law enforcement teams are tasked with penetrating and neutralizing the megalith. Right as they began their ascent, though, the alien object transforms into a massive, mechanical monstrosity that begins marching toward Washington.

The remnants of the breach teams have to destroy the alien robot from the inside before the government unleashes a nuclear response and a second, bigger monolith hits Earth.

In this six-issue Image Comics miniseries, co-writers Chris Condon (News From the Fall Out) and Andrew Ehrich team with artist Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) for a story that blends eco-horror with neo-noir.

The press release describes it as the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple meets John Carpenter’s The Thing. It follows a woman who escapes a sordid life and flees back to her Gramma’s home in a small Texas town. There, she discovers the town isn’t what it once was— and neither is Gramma.

Do you love Hallmark holiday films and Stephen King style supernatural horror? Then this five-issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios, writer Rafer Roberts (Grumble) and artist Joe Eisma (Jughead: The Hunger) is for you.

It’s the story of a no-nonsense, career woman who returns to her charming, New England hometown for a funeral where she’ll encounter the all-American dreamboat who broke her heart in high school, the late blooming, shy boy whom she never gave the time of day, and a vicious demon out to devour everyone in town.

In this nine-issue miniseries that Image Comics’ press materials describe as Green Room meets Midsommar, co-writers James Tynion IV (The Deviant) and Marguerite Bennett (Witchblade) team with artist Letizia Cadonici (Roots of Madness) for a story that shows Odin-worshipping Nazi scum exactly what the titular Norse deity would do to them given the chance.

The book follows a journalist who goes undercover to report on a gang of Neo-Nazi punks who’ve come to the forests of Norway to summon Odin. What they get is something older and stranger than they could have imagined.

Slasher horror comes to DC Comics’ Absolute line of dark superhero books in this ongoing series from writer Pornsak Pichetshote (Infidel) and artist Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire).

It’s the story of a masked killer murdering corrupt billionaires by perforating them with green arrows. It’s up to an executive protection specialist named Dinah Lance (AKA the Black Canary) to uncover the killer’s identity and their ties to a recently murdered billionaire named Oliver Queen.

Cancel culture, the wellness industry, and body dysmorphia are the focal points of this four-issue, surreal, horror miniseries from Dark Horse Comics, podcaster Connor Goldsmith, and artist Josh Cornillon (Young Men in Love).

The protagonist is a popular essayist and tastemaker whose world is shattered when one of her old blog posts, in which she cruelly mocked overweight people, resurfaces.

She decides to ride out the resulting scandal in a mental health facility, only to be pulled into an ancient, strange and decadent portion of the complex where she and her fellow patients are repeatedly punished. Her only hope for salvation lies in a relationship she kept hidden from the public eye: her secret lover, Natalie.

Dark Horse Comics celebrates Pride Month with this 80-page, one-shot anthology that blends horror and romance in the style of classic EC Comics anthologies.

The book features stories by LGBTQIA+ creators like James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children), Tate Brombal (Everything Dead & Dying), Jadzia Axelrod (Galaxy: The Prettiest Star), Vita Ayala (Submerged), Zoe Tunnell (Godzilla: Valentine’s Day Special), Josh Trujillo (Blue Beetle), Lee Knox Ostertag (The Deep Dark), Kenny Wroten (Everyone Sux But You), Jacoby Salcedo (Frontera), Lilah Sturges (Dune: The Official Movie Graphic Novel), and Vash Taylor (Galaxy: The Prettiest Star).

DC Comics’ spectral hero, Deadman, is a ghost tasked by a goddess with protecting the living from evil. A new era of his afterlife begins in this ongoing series from the creative team of the acclaimed horror comics anthology, Ice Cream Man; writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Martin Morazzo.

This five-issue series from Dark Horse Comics, written by Zack Kaplan (Kill All Immortals) and illustrated by Stefano Raffaele (Aliens vs. Captain America), promises a different take on post-apocalyptic, virus-fueled horror.

It’s set in a world where a strange pathogen is transforming people into literal monsters, and the only cure is to kill another infected soul. So, what happens when a non-violent man ventures out into this corrupted world on a quest to find his missing love?

The exact horror details of this ongoing Image Comics series are being kept close to the vest, but the press materials comparing it to a mix of The Fast and the Furious, K-Pop Demon Hunters, and Akira suggest it might intrigue fans of anime and manga-inspired fright fare.

The book, written by Lily and Robert Windom (Family Time) and featuring art by Jae Lee (Seven Sons), is set in near-future Tokyo and follows a 17-year-old girl who discovers an underground, illegal street-racing scene where the way to win is through mutation.

Fans of childhood classics reframed as horror stories like Peter Pan’s Neverland Nightmare will want to check out this new series from Mad Cave Studios by writer Steve Orlando (War Wolf) and artist Miguel Mora.

It follows a disgraced, retired pathologist desperate to find his missing daughter, Wendy, who vanished from her room. His investigation into his daughter’s disappearance puts him on the trail of a mysterious, hulking cryptid who’s been abducting people for some time: The Floating Man.

This surreal sounding, cosmic horror series from Image Comics by writer Jonathan Ball (Last Breeds) and artist G.M.B. Chomichuk (Blood Letters) involves an ancient entity whose interest in humanity is reawakened thanks to the Apollo 10 space flight. The titular being’s name comes from its tempting of neglectful parents by offering them their dreams in exchange for their child’s eyes.

Are you someone who’s been intrigued by the Hellboy movies, but finds the character’s 20+ year comic history a little intimidating? Then Dark Horse has the perfect book for you.

This one-shot, co-written by Hellboy’s creator Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden, features art by Daniele Serra (Dark Souls: Tales of Ember) and is designed as a jumping on point for new readers. It follows Hellboy’s hunt for a creature, which leads to an abandoned town in Sardinia.

Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment’s line of Universal Monsters comics continues with this four-issue miniseries from writer Joshua Williamson (Nailbiter) and artist Leomacs (Ghostlore).

It’s a bloody reimagining of the classic film that keeps the story’s tragic heart but transports the action to a college where a kid looking to reinvent himself is one of the survivors of a bloody massacre… which he may be responsible for.