Hello Darkness #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHello Darkness #2 is the second chapter of BOOM! Studios' first ongoing horror anthology series since the publisher's founding, a format that had largely been absent from mainstream American comics since the newsstand era of Creepy and Eerie. The issue continues two of the series' anchor serialized features — Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan's post-apocalyptic 'The War' and James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's new Something Is Killing the Children story — giving the anthology structural backbone beyond one-shot shorts and marking the second proof-of-concept for a format BOOM! was explicitly positioning as a modern spiritual successor to the classic horror-anthology tradition. The debut of the WWI eldritch-horror strip 'Kampfgeist' by Andy Lanning and Trevor Hairsine further broadened the series' thematic range, demonstrating the anthology's ambition to house wildly different horror registers — from supernatural war horror to creature-feature comedy — under one roof each month.
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BOOM! Studios announced the series in April 2024 as an ongoing anthology curated under the editorial direction of Bryce Carlson, the publisher's VP of Editorial & Creative Strategy, who framed it as a revival of the horror-anthology form in the tradition of Creepy, Eerie, and House of Mystery alongside contemporary touchstones like Black Mirror. Issue #1 sold strongly enough to prompt a second printing before #2 even shipped, with the second printing (featuring new cover art by Miguel Mercado) arriving on August 14, 2024 — just two weeks before #2 hit shelves on August 28, 2024. The series was designed from the outset to mix standalone short-form stories with multi-issue serialized strips, giving it a hybrid structure distinct from purely episodic anthology predecessors.
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- Hello Darkness #2 was published August 28, 2024 by BOOM! Studios — not 2025; the series launched with #1 on July 24, 2024.
- The issue contains five credited stories: 'The War' Part 2 (Garth Ennis/Becky Cloonan, colors Tamra Bonvillain, letters Pat Brosseau); 'Something Is Killing the Children: A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar' Part 2 (James Tynion IV/Werther Dell'Edera); 'The Clown' (Azam Raharjo); 'Apocalypse in Slow Motion' (Wes Craig); 'Stargazers' (Frederik Hornung); and 'I Can't Take You Anywhere' Part 2 (Robert Hack).
- The WWI eldritch-horror strip 'Kampfgeist' by writer Andy Lanning (Nova, Guardians of the Galaxy) and artist Trevor Hairsine (DCeased, 2000 AD) continues in this issue, establishing the pair as recurring contributors to the series.
- The issue features a main cover by Paolo Rivera, with variant covers by Jenny Frison and Tula Lotay — part of the series' ongoing cover format of Rivera main covers plus rotating variant artists each month.
- Hello Darkness is explicitly positioned by BOOM! Studios as working in the tradition of Warren Publishing's Creepy and Eerie magazines and the anthology storytelling style of Black Mirror.
- The Something Is Killing the Children thread running through #2 is part of a new, anthology-exclusive SIKTC story that James Tynion IV confirmed had been in development for nearly five years before finding its format home in Hello Darkness.
- Hello Darkness #1 required a second printing (with new cover art) that shipped August 14, 2024 — two weeks before #2 — confirming early retailer and reader demand for the series.
- The series is developed and curated editorially by Bryce Carlson, BOOM! Studios' VP of Editorial & Creative Strategy, and is published under the main BOOM! Studios imprint alongside titles like Something Is Killing the Children and Stuff of Nightmares.
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