HAB #2 (OF 6)

The walls of THE HAB are closing in the next bloody chapter of Eisner-nominated writer Joshua Dysart (UNKNOWN SOLDIER) and Eisner Award-winning artists David Lapham (STRAY BULLETS) and Bill Sienkiewicz’s (NEW MUTANTS) groundbreaking horror tour-de-force. NOWHERE TO RUN. Trapped inside their would be refuge and cut off from a dying world, Tuttle Barrows and his handpicked survivors struggle to maintain their grip on sanity even as they are gripped by sudden and horrifying hallucinations. Soon, scars from the past are violently gouged open and revelatory memories long buried begin to spill out, clawing their way into The Hab’s macabre new reality. Resident physician Dr. Farooqi struggles to contain the spreading madness as something continues savagely dispatching the remaining crew one-by-one. Now, the only hope for survival lies in unlocking the ancient cave buried deep beneath The Hab to uncover the secret that will keep them alive – or end them forever.

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