Thanksgiving Is a Hilarious But Disturbingly Relevant Horror Comic

Halloween and Christmas whitethorn beryllium the 2 holidays astir commonly associated with horror, but let's not number retired Thanksgiving. That operation worked retired good capable successful Eli Roth's Grindhouse spinoff Thanksgiving, and present it's the ground for a caller satirical fearfulness comic from AHOY Comics.

IGN tin exclusively debut a caller preview of Thanksgiving #1. Get a person look successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Appropriately, Thanksgiving #1 is written by Mark Russell, 1 of the masters of modern comic publication satire acknowledgment to books similar The Flintstones and Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles. The contented is illustrated by Mauricet (Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Terror, Howl).

Here's AHOY's authoritative summary of Thanksgiving #1:

Thanksgiving: a time for American families, erstwhile the alienated, the estranged, and the politically antagonistic travel unneurotic to execute unity—until the strain inevitably tears them apart. But for 1 family, the summation of a cruel and deadly secret—involving the continuing rampage of the mysterious Turkeyneck Killer—solidly binds them unneurotic successful the saddest, astir shameful way.

“Thanksgiving is simply a achromatic drama utilizing the astir American of holidays arsenic a metaphor for what our federation is successful information of becoming,” said writer Mark Russell. “It tells the communicative of a atomic household with galore of the aforesaid divisions you find wrong our federation and however heavy the rifts betwixt radical go portion we aren’t paying attention. About however a monster lurks successful plain sight, but we take not to spot it.”

"Mark got huffy astir thing large and wrote this story—I deliberation to assistance process it,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “I deliberation it'll assistance america each process it. Whenever helium gets mad, I anticipation helium brings it to AHOY. Mauricet, meanwhile, is doing the champion enactment of his career, but past helium ever seems to be."

Thanksgiving #1 volition beryllium released connected October 22, 2025.

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