Clive Barker's Night Breed #11
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIssue #11 marks a significant creative turn for the Epic Comics run, pivoting away from the post-'Blasphemers' arc and opening new mythological territory: a faction of Nightbreed who demand to be worshipped as pre-Columbian deities, introducing the characters Izpapalotl and Tezcatlipoca into the Barker comics continuity. This expansion of the Nightbreed's cultural and theological scope — drawing on Mesoamerican religion rather than the European Gothic framework of the film — demonstrated that writer D.G. Chichester was actively building a world larger than Clive Barker's 1990 movie. The series as a whole, of which this issue is a turning-point installment, represented one of the most ambitious licensed horror comics of the early 1990s, pairing a major horror author's mythology with Marvel's Epic imprint at the height of that label's mature-content ambitions.
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The Night Breed ongoing series launched in April 1990 under Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, with the first four issues adapting Barker's screenplay directly before transitioning to original stories. D.G. Chichester served as both the series' primary writer and initially as consulting editor, giving the book an unusually coherent creative stewardship for a licensed property. Issue #11, released July 16, 1991 with a September 1991 cover date, brought in artist Mark A. Nelson — a departure from the Bret Blevins who had illustrated the preceding 'Blasphemers' arc — to render the South American setting and its ancient-deity antagonists.
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- Title: 'The Birthing of That Which Was' — release date July 16, 1991; cover date September 1991.
- Written by D.G. Chichester; interior art by Mark A. Nelson (a change from Bret Blevins, who drew the preceding arc).
- Published under Marvel's Epic Comics imprint, which ran the Night Breed series for 25 issues from 1990 to 1993.
- The story centers on a group of Nightbreed in South America who prey on tourists, framed around their desire to reclaim worship as they once commanded — introducing Mesoamerican mythological figures (Izpapalotl, Tezcatlipoca) into the comic's expanded lore.
- Catalog-indexed characters for this issue include Aaron Boone (Cabal), Lori Winston, Izpapalotl, Tezcatlipoca, Troubadour, and the Cabal — marking the first comic appearances of Izpapalotl and Tezcatlipoca within the Nightbreed universe specifically.
- Aaron Boone (Cabal) and Lori Winston originate from Clive Barker's 1988 novella 'Cabal' and the 1990 film adaptation; the comic series continued their story beyond the film's ending.
- The first four issues of the series adapted Barker's screenplay; beginning with issue #5, the book moved into wholly original stories expanding the Nightbreed mythology.
- Epic Comics also published a related two-issue crossover, Hellraiser Nightbreed: Jihad, in 1991, situating this issue within a broader shared horror universe being built at the imprint.
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