Set in a world the place a gaming console referred to as the Dreamwave lets you discover a online game’s ominous open world whilst you sleep, author Zac Thompson and artist Daniel Irizarri’s four-issue comedian guide collection Cemetery Children Do not Die follows a quartet of buddies who encounter an entity referred to as “The King of Sleep” of their favourite online game “Nightmare Cemetery,” and that is when the horrors of the net world turn out to be all too actual, resulting in the buddies’ most epic—and lethal—quest but.
One of the crucial imaginative and well timed comedian guide releases of 2024, all 4 problems with Cemetery Children Do not Die are actually out there in a commerce paperback from Oni Press simply in time for the vacations, and as a particular deal with for Each day Lifeless readers, we now have your entire first difficulty that you may learn now!
Click on on the quilt under to learn the primary difficulty of Cemetery Children Do not Die, and in case you missed it, learn our Q&A with author Zac Thompson.
Cemetery Children Do not Die Vol. 1
By Zac Thompson
Illustrated by Daniel Irizarri and Gegê Schall
Writer: Oni Press (December 3, 2024)
Size: 112 pages“A chilling reflection on the price of overreliance on know-how and the seductive energy of digital realities to reshape our identities and relationships, positive to resonate with each horror and science fiction followers.” —Library Journal
“Youthful comics followers will delight on this breezier replace to David Cronenberg’s ExistenZ.” —Publishers Weekly
YOU’RE ONLY ALIVE IF YOU’RE ONLINE . . .
The twenty-first century sucks arduous, nevertheless it’s been made considerably tolerable by the most recent media innovation to lastly unseat the iPhone. Enter the Dreamwave: the primary gaming console performed completely whilst you sleep.
Now the obsession of tens of millions across the globe, it is also the one level of solace for 4 buddies whose lives have been marred by trauma and dysfunction. Collectively, this group of ultra-online “Cemetery Children” spend their nights roaming the open world of probably the most immersive and brutal horror recreation ever created: “Nightmare Cemetery.” Collectively they search to dethrone an enigmatic humanoid monster recognized solely because the “The King of Sleep.”
Which was enjoyable—till certainly one of them does not get up . . . and finds their consciousness locked inside a horror recreation that’s something however imaginary. Now, the three remaining Cemetery Children should navigate the sport’s forbidden panorama to rescue their buddy . . . and pray that the key lurking at its heart does not comply with them dwelling.
Expertise an exhilarating, terrifying journey downloading from the cortexes of critically acclaimed author Zac Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker, The Dregs) and blockbuster artist Daniel Irizarri (XINO, Choose Dredd)!
Zac Thompson is a multidisciplinary author from Prince Edward Island, Canada. He’s finest recognized for his work at Marvel Comics, together with the eco-horror title Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land and showrunning the Age of X-Man occasion. He has additionally written characters like Batman and Swamp Factor at DC Comics. In 2017, Zac launched his critically acclaimed debut graphic novel, The Dregs. His 2018 comply with up, Come Into Me, was named one of many Greatest 100 Horror Comics of All Time by Paste journal. In 2021, his science-fiction horror collection I Breathed A Physique was referred to as among the finest comics of the yr by SYFY. In 2022, Thompson’s authentic screenplay The Replacer was chosen for manufacturing financing from Telefilm Canada. Zac has additionally written tales for Vice, Huff Put up, IGN, Seraphim Movies, Picture Comics, and plenty of different publications. When Zac’s not out foraging for mushrooms or biking, you’ll find him on the cinema or strolling his canine, Astra.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Daniel Irizarri has been illustrating or drawing comics for almost all of his life. His artwork may be present in numerous tasks, together with Cloudia and Rex revealed by Magnetic Press, Choose Dredd: The Blessed Earth and Star Trek Waypoint 2019 one-shot from IDW, and the Oni Press anthology XINO. Moreover, his artwork may be seen within the Kickstarter hit Holy West, and a wide range of self-published efforts like his Otherworldly sci-fi and fantasy artbooks. He spends his days on the north coast of the island together with his beautiful girlfriend and their cats.
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