New Comics Wednesday's PICK TO CLICK: AfterDark

This past Halloween? Kid’s stuff. The real horror arrives tomorrow in the pages of AFTERDARK. Spearheaded by AfterShock Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Joe Pruett, the 48-page Prestige Format “One-Shock” features four tales of terror from a Murderer’s Row of top creative talent. Cullen Bunn and Cliff Richards’ Dust to Dust “is a bittersweet sort of horror tale, a story of love and loss and undying commitment, both to the fleeting time we have left on this earth, and the time we’ll have in whatever’s next,” Bunn said. Frank Tieri had this to say about his horror tale, Along Came a Spider: “We did a story for the SHOCK anthology called Little Red Riding Hood, which was essentially the little red riding hood story as if it was told by Quentin Tarantino or Martin Scorsese. In that story, Red was a drug courier, Grandma was a drug dealer, the Wolf was a rival drug lord, ‘Mother Goose’ was a mob boss called Don Orca...anyway, you get the idea. As it turned out, it was one of the more popular stories in that book so we thought hey, what the hell, why not do more? Why not play in that whacked out universe again? And so, we got the LRRH band of Joe Eisma and Matt Herms back together for more tales that will ruin your childhood.” Meanwhile, Thanos co-creator Jim Starlin simply calls his horror story, Inheritance, illustrated by Nikkol Jelenic, “a tale of catastrophic generational dissatisfaction set in a dystopian future. Lots of laughs.” Finally, Joe Pruett and Szymon Kudranski’s story is actually a standalone tale set in the world of their AfterShock title BLACK-EYED KIDS. “We will see some familiar faces in the new story, but you do not have to have been a reader of the series to enjoy it,” said Pruett. “It’s new reader friendly.”