What if your best friend was the devil? What would you do? Spray-paint pentagrams on the sides of big-box stores? Listen to awesome heavy metal music? Bully old ladies? Participate in blood orgies? Manipulate foreign countries to war? MURDER BABIES?!
BABY MURDERER!
If you’re Edith “Eddie” Miller, you and your sexy, pale, Edward Cullen-looking young adult devil friend uncover a conspiracy of missing young women in your small Midwestern town.
That’s the central plot of Something Crawled Out (short for “Something wicked crawled out screaming”), a new Vault Comics horror series coming this spooky season from writer Son M., artist Cas “MadCursed” Peirano, colorist Vittorio Astone and letterer Jim Campbell.
“Love is a violent thing. I’ve always been obsessed with the inherent connection between brutality and beauty, and the way we express our relationships in different ways,” Son M. said in comments supplied by Vault. “Something Crawled Out is about two desperate people trying to save someone they love, and thus committing unspeakable acts of violence onto others along the way.”
Said MadCursed: “Reading the Something Crawled Out scripts, I was immediately drawn to the devilish aura surrounding the characters. I really enjoy stories where the arc isn’t always self-improvement, but rather, self-destruction. There’s a violence in a lot of these characters in Something Crawled Out, and a lot of the circumstances they face bring it out in terrible ways. And yet, despite all the horrors happening, you still find yourself rooting for them. You want them to win.”
Check out an exclusive extended preview of the first issue, and hey, if you like it, maybe preorder it from your local comic shop! Basic deets are below.
Content warning: This preview contains boobs.
SOMETHING CRAWLED OUT
Writer: Son M.
Artist: MadCursed
Colorist: Vittorio Astone
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Designer: Tim Daniel
Cover A: MadCursed
Cover B: Cathy Kwan
Issue #1 On Sale: 10/25/2023
Synopsis: Edith “Eddie” Miller has no grand plans or great prospects. She spends her days sleeping in and her nights working shifts at a gas station. But when her younger sister fails to come home, Eddie unearths a web of missing girls and rotting bodies. The police prove useless, so Eddie teams up with her best friend, Rainer, in a desperate hunt to find her sister. The only thing is, Eddie believes her best friend might be the Devil himself.
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate, ComicsXF may earn from qualifying purchases.
Dan Grote is the editor-in-chief of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Winston Wisdom.
