Deadworld #18

In "The Path of Return," Mark Bloodworth crafts a haunting chapter in the Deadworld saga, weaving a tense flashback with a present-day moment of quiet dread. Three months prior, King Zombie faces his enigmatic master’s wrath over the failed search for Deake and the unopened gate, receiving adult Graken as a grim aid. Now, in the present, Dan and Joey stand at the edge of their struggling community, eyes drawn to a disturbing cloud formation on the distant horizon—something ancient and unnatural stirring in the sky. The story’s eerie atmosphere is sharpened by Bloodworth’s self-penciled, inked, and lettered artwork, with Vincent Locke’s cover capturing the same unsettling stillness.