You Never Know Who Can You Trust In New Horror Comics Series THE NEIGHBORS

BOOM! Studios is coming out with a new changeling horror limited comic series, The Neighbors. Written by Jude Ellison S. Doyle with artist Letizia Cadonici and colorist Alessandro Santoro, the story sounds incredibly creepy. There will be a total of only five issues for this story to be told in. Here’s the official synopsis:

When Janet and Oliver Gowdie move to a quaint mountain town, their daughter Casey becomes part of a horrific chain of events revealing that their neighbors are anything but what they seem. Soon, an unsettling old woman named Agnes Early fixates on Janet and Oliver’s other daughter–2-year-old Isobel.

It becomes clear that it’s impossible to know who to trust… or who is even still human…

It definitely sounds like a nightmare scenario for any parent. In fact, that is the whole point as Doyle explains:

I am so excited for THE NEIGHBORS. It’s a story about what scared me as a kid, what scares me as a parent, and the terror that shadows queer and trans people who are raising families in 2022… …Letizia Cadonici’s witchy, haunted art provides such a beautiful portal into this other world. I sincerely hope you’ll walk through and see what’s inside.

It sounds like an interesting metaphor. I personally have a really hard time with horror that deals with children, especially small children so I’m not sure that I’ll read this one. But if I could handle that, I would definitely read this because the artwork looks beautiful which can make the story all the more haunting. You can pick up issue one of The Neighbors in March 2023 at comic book shops, at the BOOM! Studios webstore, and digitally.