As Misty 2024 Particular hits cabinets within the UK, Rebel have supplied a further peek on the Gail Simone-helmed challenge of the traditional British horror anthology. The 48-page comedian is accessible now from the 2000 AD webshop in print and digital editions with the US version slated for August 21 (Previews code MAY241900), priced at $12.50.
From the Rebel press launch:
“Dare you learn it alone?
“A traditional horror collection rises from past the grave in 2024, that includes 4 brand-new chilling adventures from a number of the most terrifyingly proficient creators in comics!
“Misty, the traditional horror collection for younger ladies, has been resurrected by megastar author Gail Simone, who’s being joined by a murderers’ row of expertise for an all-new 48 web page anthology particular publishing on the seventeenth July 2024.”
Three of the 4 tales in Misty 2024 Particular are written by America’s personal Gail Simone – and every intriguingly characteristic the comedian’s fictional host Misty herself. The artists on Simone’s tales are Carola Borelli, Aly Fell, Ellie Wright, and Marianna Ignazzi – with the fourth being completely written and drawn by Letty Wilson. Tula Lotay offers the duvet artwork.
Story summaries:
“In Eleven Lonely Deaths, a true-crime podcaster visits a decades-old crime scene the place eleven ladies misplaced their lives by the hands of a vicious strangler. There, he meets a mysterious younger lady who is aware of extra in regards to the crimes than must be attainable…
“At The Pub on the Finish of the Street, an unscrupulous landlord of a dreary pub within the English countryside makes his gifted daughter work her fingers to the bone, and turns a blind eye to the purchasers’ wandering palms. She seeks solace in a secret love… till she’s pressured to make use of her extraordinary presents…
“Wishing Pleased Birthday, Mrs. Parker looks as if a pleasant gesture from the workers of a distant nursing house in England. However the workers are hiding a secret which is able to catch you fully off-guard…
“The Cracked Glass – from author/artist Letty Wilson, this darkish story will get you considering twice earlier than you look within the mirror…”
Misty was a cult traditional weekly British supernatural horror anthology aimed explicitly on the women comics market. Based by prolific author, editor and 2000 AD founder Pat Mills, it was printed by Fleetway between 1978 and 1980, working for over 100 points earlier than being folded into fellow women comedian Tammy (then renaming it for a time to Tammy and Misty).
Since hoovering up the rights to an enormous swathe of the traditional British comics catalogue as soon as printed underneath the Fleetway/IPC umbrella, Rebel have been eager on reviving previous faves with reprints and specials. Misty‘s first trendy return in 2017’s Scream & Misty particular. The Misty 2024 Particular is the second that the title has gone solo in a contemporary iteration – following 2020’s Misty Winter Particular.
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