Welcome to another installment of 31 Days of Halloween! This is our chance to set the mood for the spookiest and scariest month of the year as we focus our attention on horror and Halloween fun. For the month of October we’ll be sharing various pieces of underappreciated scary books, comics, movies, and television to help keep you terrified and entertained all the way up to Halloween.
Happy Halloween everyone! If you’re like us, you’re always looking for new ways to celebrate the best time of year, and what better way then to hijack this monthly column! These panels may not be quite as purposeful as previous months, but dammit they are when you’re looking for spooky, scary, and all around freaky images are what you crave! Check out the scariest, weirdest, and most Halloween panels from comics that came out this October!
Thor #700
Written by Jason Aaron | Art by Chris Burnham
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Dave: Sadly, Galactus, Butcher of Worlds was always way too big to learn the horror movie lesson: NEVER PUT YOUR HAND IN A MONSTER’S MOUTH!
Brian: Using a planet as a monocle never caught on in Victorian England, but is all the rage for sentient planets.
Dog: Marvel’s leaving money on the table by not licensing an Ego Madball.
Venom #156
Written by Michael Costa | Art by Mark Bagley
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Dave: Somebody get this guy a Viagra!
Brian: Does Venom have a mouth on his knee?
Dog: And a tongue on his clavicle. And a song in his heart.
Trinity #14
Written by Rob Williams | Art by Ray McCarthy, V Ken Marion
Publisher: DC Comics
Dave: Does that thing have its own stomach? Yeeeuck.
Dog: Speaking of tongue! It’s gonna be one of THOSE months, isn’t it?
Batman: Dawnbreaker #1
Written by Sam Humphries | Art by Ethan Van Sciver
Publisher: DC Comics
Dave: Nothing good was ever made in the dark!
Jason: I have to imagine an awful lot of children were made in the dark….
Brian: Every time I think Dark Nights has gotten as dark as it can, the next issue says “Here, hold my beer crafted from the essence of the indescribable horrors in my soul.”
Eugenics #1
Written by James Tynion IV | Art by Eryk Donovan
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Dave: When the novocaine works too well.
Dog:Pray that North Korea never perfects the Turkey Wattle virus.
Lisa: Origins new facial peel; test group #1 produced mixed results.
Brian: This is what happens when you bring the Ark of the Covenant to a medical conference.
Green Arrow #32
Written by Benjamin Percy | Art by Juan Ferreyra
Publisher: DC Comics
Dave: The trick to any card trick is to have six hands.
Lisa: Step right up for a creepy alien tarot reading.
Dog: I guess interdimensional bondage wasn’t paying Hellraiser’s bills. Switched to swindling old hippies in Greenwich Village.
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #30
Written by Robert Venditti | Art by Patrick Zircher
Publisher: DC Comics
David: Now this is nightmare fuel.
Brian: When I have a headache THIS BIG…
Dog: Today I learned there is no good version of the Del Amitri “Roll to Me” video on YouTube. Shame.
Dark Nights: Metal #3
Written by Scott Snyder | Art by Greg Capullo
Publisher: DC Comics
David: They all said he’d get a growth spurt, but not like this!
Brian: Barbatos is about to break into “One Moment in Time.”
Dog: Man, what a great use of perspective. It’s like the monstrous abdomen arm is coming right at me!
Michael Cray #1
Written by Bryan Hill | Art by Dexter Vines, N Steven Harris
Publisher: DC Comics
Dog: “And to trade beard-grooming tips. Do you condition?”
Jason: Oli hunting the homeless for sport may just be the wild detour that Arrow needs to be interesting again.
David: Meanwhile in the main DCU series people are calling him an SJW!
Redlands #3
Written by Jordie Bellaire | Art Vanesa Del Rey
Publisher: Image Comics
Lisa: This was the day John stopped wearing bacon scented cologne.
David H: Taco Bell’s new variation of fourth meal.
Dog: Aversion therapy — the only way to cure a furry.
David: He’s just trying to give you some speed holes to make the performance go faster. Sheesh.
Spirits of Vengeance #1
Written by Victor Gischler | Art David Baldeon
Publisher: Marvel Comics
David: Ghost Rider vs. Alien, who ya got?!
Brian: Shit’s on fire, yo.
Dog: Sorry DC, but those shoulder pads are TRULY metal. \m/ \m/
Venomverse #5
Written by Cullen Bunn | Art Iban Coello
Publisher: Marvel Comics
David: “Just take a little off the top,” he said followed by a SLASH.
Dog: All those Venoms and only one tongue. Props for artistic restraint.
Weapon X #9
Written by Greg Pak | Art Greg Land
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Lisa: When Twister goes wrong.
Dog: So that’s how we’ll crush the robot rebellion? “Left foot yellow”?
David: Those, “Help I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” ads would have done far better with this guy featured at the end.
Youngblood #6
Written by Chad Bowers | Art Jim Towe
Publisher: Image Comics
David H: Trying to get out of your cell phone contract like……
David: Anyone else getting some Ace Ventura 2 vibes from this?
Wormwood Goes to Washington #1
Written and drawn by Ben Templesmith
Publisher: IDW
Jason: For a man ingesting a vomit demon, that ‘what the’ is probably a little too clear. I think the first words that would cross his lips would probably be closer to: “BLLAAAARRRRRGHHGGHGHGGGUUGHGHHH!”
David: What’d we say about drinking the Kool-Aid!?
Dog: Yes, there is even porn for the “gay, mature, ectoplasm-puking while cigar-smoking” crowd.
Batman: White Knight #1
Written and Drawn by Sean Murphy
Publisher: DC Comics
Lisa: So many cool details of Batman and Joker momentos. The shadows are fantastic as well.
Brian: This isn’t horror, this is just Chris Hardwick’s man cave.
David: The real horror of this scene is the lack of cool lighting to highlight all these awesome figures!
Jason: Do you know how many packs of ramen dude would have to trade to acquire that kind of collection?
David H: You took it out of the original boxes!!! It’s all worthless! What have you done??
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