The folks at Dark Horse are teaming up with Patrick Piazzalunga (X-Factor, Happy Horror Days) and Cullen Bunn (Sixth Gun, Lucky Devil) for a brand new miniseries that takes aim at the things in our nightmares. Get ready for Monsters Are My Business (And Business is Bloody), which fights against the nightmares lurking in this wild world – and we’ve got an exclusive first look at the cover art for the new book. Check it out.
The four-issue series features art and covers by Piazzalunga, colors by Marco Brakko (Grimm Universe Presents Quarterly: Steampunk), and letters by Jim Campbell (If You Find This, I’m Already Dead, Midnite Show), promising an over-the-top, colorful, vibrant world of horrors. As for the specifics of the book? Just for starters, it includes a koala armed with a chainsaw. The synopsis reads as follows:
“Meet Tanner ‘Griz’ Grisholm. Along with a shrewd necromancer who wants him dead and a chainsaw-wielding koala bear named Cuddles as he wages a bloody war against nightmares from beyond time and space. It’s thankless work, but someone has to do it. And when a group of government contractors goes missing in the nightmare landscape of the Flooded Zone, Griz stumbles into a mystery he may not be able to carve his way out of. His old biker pals, the Howling Gargoyles, are up to no good, and the memories might be too much for Griz to handle.”
“I’m very excited about this comic!” Piazzalunga says. “Cullen and I discussed creating a horror comedy with tentacled monsters. We are big fans of 80’s horror films, Lovecraft, splatter and gore. Cullen did a fantastic job. When I read the scripts I was super excited and I enjoyed drawing, if you like all this, Griz and Cuddles are waiting for you with their chainsaws!” Bunn had this to add:
“Some time ago, Patrick and I were discussing working together on a new creator-owned title. He sent me some concept sketches of this big, burly biker type and a chainsaw-wielding, cigar-smoking koala bear. From there, we discussed building a story of elder gods, mutant cults, mercenary necromancers, and a lot of bloody good violence. Monsters Are My Business was born! I am just in awe of Patrick’s ability to fuse horror and action and comedy so seamlessly. Readers are going to dig this book!”
Monsters are My Business (And Business is Bloody) #1 hits comic shops on April 10, 2024. You can pre-order a copy now for $3.99.
