Trailers for Joe Hill's DC Label Hill House Comics and First Horror Comic BASKETFUL OF HEADS
DC Comics and horror author Joe Hill have teamed up for a new horror DC label called Hill House Comics and the first project from this collaboration has launched with Basketful of Heads. Just in time for Halloween, the comic was written by Hill and with art by Leomacs and cover by Reiko Murakami.
Additional new titles will hit comic book stores in November and December. I’ve included a couple of trailers below for you to watch. The first is for Basketful of Heads and the other is for Hill House Comics and it shows us what they are looking to deliver.
Basketful of Heads tells the story of June Branch, “a young woman from the small town of Brody Island. Four cunning criminals have kidnapped her boyfriends for their own deranged reasons and June is trapped with them with no defense except an 8th-century Viking axe that can lop off a man’s head in one stroke. But there’s a catch – the severed heads remain conscious and are still capable of speech. Each disembodied head has its own malevolent story to tell and before long June finds herself in an even more desperate struggle to hack through their lies and manipulations, racing to save the man she loves before it’s too late.”
Here’s some information on three other comics that are coming to Hill House Comics:
The Dollhouse Family, written by Mike Carey, with art by Peter Gross and Vince Locke, with covers by Jessica Dalva (featuring dollhouses Dalva has built by hand). “On Alice’s sixth birthday, her dying great-aunt sends her the birthday gift she didn’t know she always wanted: a big, beautiful 19th-century dollhouse, complete with a family of antique dolls. In hardly any time at all, the dollhouse isn’t just Alice’s favorite toy…it’s her whole world. Soon young Alice learns she can enter the house, to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming children’s novel: The Dollhouse family. As the years pass, Alice finds herself visiting their world more frequently, slowly losing track of where reality ends and make-believe begins. What starts as play concludes in an eruption of madness and violence. The house can offer her shelter from all her sorrows…but only if she gives it what it wants, and god help her if she tries to walk away again…” The comic debuts on November 13th.
The Low, Low Woods comes from bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado and artist Dani, featuring covers by Sam Wolfe Connelly and J.A.W. Cooper. “When you live in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town called Shudder-To-Think, there’s bound to be stories to tell, especially when the coal mines underneath it have literally been on fire for years. Two local teens, El and Octavia, wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last hours of their lives, they begin a surreal and terrifying journey to discover the strange truth about their hometown, encountering human-eyed rabbits, a deer woman with a taste for humans, and swaths of skinless men along the way.” The comic will launch on December 18th.
There will also be a chapter of a backup features included called Sea Dogs, written by Hill with art by Dan McDaid. “It’s 1779, and the American Revolution is screwed. With untold firepower, the British Navy is wreaking havoc on the fledgling republic and of course, the only answer to turn the tide of battle are werewolves.”
Check out the trailers below and let us know if you plan on picking up and reading any of these.