Vault Comics Announces SOMETHING CRAWLED OUT at SDCC
Vault Comics announced the new horror series from writer Son M. and artist Cas "MadCursed" Peirano during SDCC Day 2. With Vittorio Astone providing colors, lettering by Jim Campbell, and designed by Tim Daniel, SOMETHING CRAWLED OUT #1 will hit shelves in October.
Here’s a synopsis from the publisher:
The Midwest is the backdrop for Something Crawled Out, where Edith “Eddie” Miller has no grand plans or great prospects. She spends her days sleeping in and her nights working shifts at a gas station. But when her younger sister fails to come home, Eddie unearths a web of missing girls and rotting bodies. The police prove useless, so Eddie teams up with her best friend, Rainer, in a desperate hunt to find her sister. The only thing is—Eddie believes her best friend might be the Devil himself.
SOMETHING CRAWLED OUT #1 will hit store shelves in October 2023 and is currently available for preorder. Keep scrolling to see the art for covers A & B of the debut issue!
Here's what the book’s creative team had to say about the upcoming series:
Son M.: “Love is a violent thing. I’ve always been obsessed with the inherent connection between brutality and beauty, and the way we express our relationships in different ways. Something Crawled Out is about two desperate people trying to save someone they love, and thus committing unspeakable acts of violence onto others along the way. I’ve always wanted to write horror that was so tied to expressions of the Final Girl trope, mixed with the active presence of the Hunter. Rather than reacting to the tragedies around her, Eddie is constantly causing devastation in her desperation to find her sister.”
MadCursed: "Reading the Something Crawled Out scripts, I was immediately drawn to the devilish aura surrounding the characters. I really enjoy stories where the arc isn't always self-improvement, but rather, self-destruction. There's a violence in a lot of these characters in Something Crawled Out and a lot of the circumstances they face bring it out in terrible ways. And yet, despite all the horrors happening, you still find yourself rooting for them. You want them to win.
Der-shing Helmer (editor): "We live in an undeniably dangerous world, and the notion of civilized society is often our shield against it. Something Crawled Out removes the veneer of civility and asks the reader, if nobody else was around to see, how far would you go to protect your own against monsters? The answer is darker than you might imagine...but aren't you desperately curious to see the true face you've been hiding all along?"
