Hello Darkness #22

The temperature rises and so does the body count, as Hello Darkness returns for another summer slashing!

A bride’s devoted faith is tested when she’s caught in an endless time loop–will murder be the only way to achieve salvation? Repent, reader, with “Sunday Pt. I” from Eisner and Harvey Award–winning writer Ryan North and artist Giada Belviso!

A lone cowboy looking for a payday finds instead a book filled with endless waking nightmares in "The Written Word" by John Arcudi and superstar artist Ryan Sook.

Saddle up your hog and roar into “The Boils” by Aaron Losty and Lauren Knight as a revenge killing by a leather daddy and his biker gang comes back to haunt them in every way possible!

And finally, sink your fangs into a preview of Vampyrates!, a swashbuckling bloody rags to bloody riches tale, coming soon from Fred Van Lente and Luca Pizzari.

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