Macabre Daily • August 14th, 2026

Doug Wagner and Daniel Hillyard Dish The Deadly Details of "I LOVE APOCALYPTIC ZOMBIE MISFITS" [Interview]

Macabre Daily: For Doug Wagner, I love how central and specific food, specifically snacks, is to this graphic novel, from Funyuns to pork rinds! Can you talk about how you incorporated food into the characters' lives and the story? Doug Wagner: That’s a funny question because I don’t really think of the food as being about the food. It’s about the road trip. When I was writing “AZM”, I wanted to capture every part of that experience - not just driving from Point A to Point B, but all the little...

Macabre Daily • August 12th, 2026

“TEENAE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA” (2026) Is An Erotic Meta-Horror Slasher For Millennials [Review]]

Meta-humor, deconstruction, and self-reflexivity are not something new to the slasher genre; at this point, it’s almost the opposite. Even in the genre's heyday in the 1980s, the tropes were so well established that self-aware films such as “Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives” began to poke holes in the formula. The first slasher movie about someone slashing a film crew, “Effects”, was made in 1979! Audiences are so familiar with tropes now that slasher movie writers almost have to acknowledge...

Macabre Daily • August 6th, 2026

Take A Ride On The Highway To Hell In “JOHN CARPENTER'S CATHEDRAL” [Review]

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?The cry of “Officer Down” echoes through the air on a stormy Los Angeles night! The mutilated, mangled body of a beat cop brings three detectives to the doors of a strange and ancient cathedral. What they find in the bowels of the unholy ruin will take them on a journey to the gates of hell and beyond.HOW IS IT?It’s hard to know where to start when talking about “Cathedral,” which is an expansive project, but a fairly tight and narrow narrative for a graphic novel. In the forewor...

Macabre Daily • August 4th, 2026

“SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY” (2026) Is A Spectacular And Sincere Superhero Story [Review]

I didn’t think Marvel Studios had it in them to make a “Spider-Man” film this good. I didn’t dare even hope they could pull off such a thing. Even now, writing this review, I’m questioning myself. Did Destin Daniel Cretton and Tom Holland make a better “Spider-Man” movie than Sam Raimi and Toby Maguire ever did? On that particular point, it’s maybe too early to say. For certain, though, “Brand New Day” eclipses all of Holland’s prior Spidey films, yes, even “No Way Home”. “Brand New Day” is a so...

Macabre Daily • July 28th, 2026

“GIANT ROBOT HELLBOY RETURNS #1” In A Battle At The Bottom Of The Sea [Review]

One of the most incredible things about the world of “Hellboy” is the ludicrous range of stories that get told within it. This year alone, in addition to his standard monster hunting, Mike Mignola has put out a palace intrigue comedy (“The Crown: A Tale of Hell”), a western (“Carmen Red Claw: The Belly of the Beast”), and now a smashing kaiju adventure with “Giant Robot Hellboy Returns.” So if you’re a Hellboy fan but you really want more “Pacific Rim” in your life, Giant Robot Hellboy is back t...

Macabre Daily • July 24th, 2026

Christian Ward Guides Us Through the Retro-Futurism Of "THE FOREVER HOME" [Interview]

MACABRE DAILY: How do you approach writing a non-linear narrative with two different time speeds? Do you have it all mapped out in a big chart, or does it just flow naturally?CHRISTIAN WARD: I wish I could say I was like Charlie Day from “Always Sunny” plotting this book, but honestly, as with any story, you just follow the characters. What do they want? What stops them getting what they want, and finally, what do they need? For “The Forever Home,” it’s pretty simple. Henry D’Mour, infamous bill...

Macabre Daily • July 23rd, 2026

These Psychics Might Be A Little Psychotic! “MIND MGMT: NEW AND IMPROVED #2” [Review]

It’s become clearer in this second issue that Delphi is not so much an investigator herself as Swan’s handler, meant to protect him and keep him on track. While she’s undergoing her own mental struggles, she is the bulwark against Swan’s own flood of insanity. It seems that he’s starting to suspect it, but fascinatingly he doesn’t resent this. The best dialogue in the entire issue sees Swan inquiring about Delphi’s “calming” powers that quiet the mind of those who get in the duo’s way. He wants...

Macabre Daily • July 18th, 2026

Macabre Daily Remembers The Movies Of Sam Neill [In Memoriam]

Sam Neill transformed my understanding of cinema. Strong words, but I promise they are true. “Jurassic Park” will forever be my favorite movie. Not because it is impeccably crafted (which it is), but because of the transformative experience I had watching it. I was 11 years old when this movie came out. I don’t remember how I first became aware of it, but I remember vividly the fervor with which my friends embraced the hype. It is the first film that I remember seeing on opening day. I remember...

Macabre Daily • July 15th, 2026

Frank Barbiere and Stephen Rhodes Game Out In "ZERO INSTANCE" [Interview]

Macabre Daily: What was your biggest challenge in translating the interactive nature of gaming to the medium of comics?Frank Barbiere:  Working to keep things feeling authentic while still being exciting. Stephen and I both work in the games industry and have seen things blatantly misrepresented more times than we can count; while we are telling a fictional story and there are plenty of fantastic elements (and an alt future), we wanted our actual experience to push on the themes and overall tone...

Macabre Daily • July 8th, 2026

Spiritual Warfare Gets Gnarly In “CHAPLAIN” [Review]

Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers- the worst these guys can do is kill you. Jigsaw, Leatherface- they might torture you first, but once you’re dead, you’re dead. When you’re dealing with more supernatural horrors, the stakes get much higher. “Chaplain”, a new religious horror graphic novel written by Brad Sun and his brother Revered Wesley Sun, focuses on the battle for the immortal soul. Raúlo Cáceres, one of the great modern horror illustrators, brings the Sun brothers’ disturbing fears to the pag...

Macabre Daily • June 30th, 2026

Muddled Found Footage Film "MUFFLED" (2026) Frustrates More Than It Frightens [Review]

Grace Thompson is long gone but not forgotten, and her childhood friends Nora and Harper are coming home to find her, over a decade after she vanished into thin air. “Muffled” is a found footage docu-horror in the vein of “Strange Harvest” and “Horror in the High Desert”, but with very little of those films’ inspiration. The true-crime approach to found footage is hard to pull off, and despite some good efforts by the cast, “Muffled” fails to effectively harness the subgenre to materialize any t...

Macabre Daily • June 26th, 2026

Big Red Takes A Tragic Trip To Italy in “HELLBOY AND THE B.P.R.D.: THE MONSTER OF NIVOLA” [Review]

Sardinia, Italy, a Mediterranean paradise of gorgeous beaches, delicious Italian cooking, and ancient architecture. For some, it would be a wonderful island getaway. For Hellboy, who is there monster hunting, it will be a notably bad day in a career full of bad days. The monster-fighting career of Hellboy has been full of wild tales of adventure and excitement, but it’s also riddled with gothic tragedy. “Hellboy and The B.P.R.D.: The Monster of Nivola”, from writers Mike Mignola and Christopher...

Macabre Daily • June 19th, 2026

What Capcom Needs to Nail In "RESIDENT EVIL: VERONICA" [Essay]

Secondly, Chris Redfield needs to have a real and consistent personality. There’s no debate that portrayals of Chris Redfield in the past decade have frustrated many fans. From his strange and baffling new look in “Resident Evil 7” to his gruff, borderline antagonistic relationship with Ethan Winters in “Resident Evil: Village", Chris’s angry, depressed nature has verged on self-parody from “Resident Evil 6” onwards. Early hints of chain-smoking and pill popping indicate that we will see Chris’...

Macabre Daily • June 10th, 2026

“MISTER MAGIC” Is A Cathartic Exploration Of Creepy Children’s TV [Review]

“Come with me, and you'll be… in a world of pure imagination. Take a look, and you'll see into your imagination.  We'll begin with a spin, traveling in the world of my creation. What we'll see will defy explanation…” Everyone has that children’s movie or television show that was pretty wonderful and brilliant, but also creeped them out. Mine, of course, was a VHS copy of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”. For those of us who grew up with TV as a default household appliance, the impact of c...

Macabre Daily • June 9th, 2026

"MUTTER: DIARY OF A MOTHER" (2026) Evolves From Pregnancy Into Parenting Horror [Review]

Fans of slow, grim, existential horror rejoice, there’s finally a 2026 horror movie for those who love the cinema of despair. Alphan Eşeli is pulling very few punches as he puts Gül through the wringer across “Mutter’s” ninety-seven minutes. This movie is very light on fun and very heavy on emotional and physical agony. “Mutter” is a cinematic cry of pain and anguish, a primal scream into the uncaring void. This is one miserable monster movie. Admittedly, it’s fairly light on the monster part. D...

Macabre Daily • June 3rd, 2026

Mel Gillman Gabs About Their New Crowdsourced Graphic Novel "THE GOBLIN THRONE" [Interview]

MD:  Your use of color is so specific, I was reminded of the girl in the red coat in "Schindler's List" and the bright yellow monster, Roark Jr., from "Sin City.” How did you decide when to use color?MG: I’m always using color as a storytelling element in my work!  Every comic I make starts with a limited color palette, and I’m always thinking about how to use color to emphasize certain emotions I want the reader to feel.  In “The Goblin Throne”, the dominant colors in the palette are fairly dar...

Macabre Daily • May 26th, 2026

Blizzard Conjures An Evil Epic In “DIABLO IV: LORD OF HATRED” [Review]

After three years, twelve seasons, over a billion dollars in revenue, and an unfathomable amount of demons slain, Diablo IV’s second expansion has arrived, and it feels an awful lot like a finale. Blizzard Entertainment has overhauled nearly every mechanic in the game, created an entirely new playable religion, and lovingly crafted a dozen new hours of astonishing story content. After the highly divisive “Vessel of Hatred” expansion, Blizzard has gone back to the drawing board and put in conside...

Macabre Daily • May 19th, 2026

The Deadly Dentist Faces His Fate In “THE DEVIL’S LUCK: A HAILSTONE STORY #5" [Review]

The bodies are mounting, blood has been spilled, and the formerly innocent dentist Timothy  Beacon finds himself in utter darkness. Fear and greed have consumed him, and the light at the end of the tunnel is growing smaller. Rafael Scavone and Eduardo Ferigato’s violent and crazy finale of “The Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story” isn’t what I expected, but it’s a bold and bloody finale for a standout series.“Doc” Beacon is California dreamin’ on a cold winter’s day, with a pot of gold, melted teeth...

Macabre Daily • May 9th, 2026

"CARMEN RED CLAW: BELLY OF THE BEAST #4" Closes Out The Series With A Bang! [Review]

The final issue of Carmen Red Claw’s debut series has arrived, and it’s a wild finale that takes this weird west story’s supernatural elements to the max. Rae Allen and Mike Mignola bring Carmen fully into Mignola’s world of gods and monsters with “Carmen Red Claw: Belly of the Beast #4”, pitting Carmen against ancient evil that she’s never seen the likes of before.Thrown overboard from a flying train, and left for dead in the desert, Carmen Red Claw is beaten but not broken. Her quest to stop t...

Macabre Daily • May 6th, 2026

Matt Kindt Returns With Mesmerizing "MIND MGMT: NEW & IMPROVED" [Review]

Welcome back to the world of psychic spies and mind-boggling conspiracies as Matt Kindt’s “MIND MGMT” returns, now as “MIND MGMT: New and Improved”. Part reboot, part sequel, this twisty, mind-bending story of mental warfare is back and possibly even better than ever. Kindt’s bold, ambitious and singular vision is as strong as it was the first time around, with more of a modern millennialist mindset. [Spoilers for the original run of MIND:MGMT lie ahead]Years since the fall of MIND MGMT and the...

Macabre Daily • May 2nd, 2026

Matt Kindt Brings Madness And Machine Guns To The “MIND MGMT / FORT PSYCHO FCBD 2026 SPECIAL” [Review]

Kindt goes all in on the “MIND MGMT” story, which is a delightfully bonkers journey through the completely insane comics world that he’s created in his magnum opus series. Speaking directly to the reader before putting them in the comic and then taking them back out again, Kindt flips through a dozen perspectives in a dozen pages, zapping around in a mindbending metanarrative that almost defies description. Kindt’s story warps so fast and so hard that it takes a very close read to try and wring...

Macabre Daily • April 30th, 2026

A Happy Holiday For Hellboy? “HELLBOY IN LOVE: BLACK EYES” [Review]

Oh, it is a rare pleasure to see the morose big red man with the red right hand experiencing any kind of joy at all, even if temporary. Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s new Christmas tale of Hellboy’s romance with Anastasia Bransfield is a warm and sweet ghost story featuring our favorite half-demon navigating relationship challenges while solving a classic haunting. Illustrated by Alex Nieto, it’s a cozy bite of romance and mystery to spice up the summer. “Hellboy in Love: Black Eyes” is s...

Macabre Daily • April 24th, 2026

Slaughter Across The Sands And Seas: "Lands Unknown: The Skinless Man #2” [Review]

The concluding issue to Ben Stenbeck’s brutal tale of “The Skinless Man” is another violent and expansive issue of murderous adventure. The somewhat nebulous story takes its ruthless and sinister energy to a variety of scattered places. Ben Stenbeck crafts a tale of a craven and somewhat confounding world, as the saga of “Lands Unknown” continues.Issue #2 finishes the journey of ruthless warlord El Kubra, also known as “The Skinless Man” for his, well, lack of skin. El Kubra is on the trail of a...

Macabre Daily • April 23rd, 2026

Matt Kindt Exposes Manipulation, False Memories, And Making "MIND MGMT: New and Improved" [Interview]

MD: “MIND MGMT: New and Improved” somehow feels even more paranoid and cynical than its predecessor. Detective Swan's scathing opening monologue feels incredibly real. I realized I genuinely don’t know the name of the man who fired on the President just two years ago. How much of that monologue purely reflects Detective Swan's mind, and how much is a commentary on our real-world current collective consciousness?MK: I’m just making it up as I go here. Trying to have fun. Let’s all just take it ea...