Hello Darkness #3
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHello Darkness #3 is a key installment in BOOM! Studios' most ambitious modern horror anthology, a title consciously positioned in the tradition of Warren Publishing's Creepy and Eerie while channeling the sociopolitical dread of contemporary prestige television. The issue deepens two of the series' flagship serialized narratives simultaneously — Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan's nuclear-anxiety saga 'The War' and James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Slaughterverse expansion story 'A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar,' the latter being a rare anthology-native chapter of the Eisner Award-winning Something Is Killing the Children universe. Its mixture of body horror, war horror, and creature fiction across a single oversized Mature-rated package demonstrates how Hello Darkness was engineered from the ground up to serve as BOOM!'s answer to the classic multi-creator anthology format — a format largely absent from mainstream direct-market publishing for decades.
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Hello Darkness launched in July 2024 as BOOM! Studios' flagship ongoing horror anthology, conceived to unite a wide cross-section of the publisher's existing horror talent alongside outside all-stars. The series was announced with serialized anchor strips locked in from the start: Garth Ennis — who had publicly stated his eagerness to collaborate with Becky Cloonan for some time — committed 'The War' to the first seven issues, while James Tynion IV described the Something Is Killing the Children anthology arc as a story he had carried in his mind for nearly five years before Hello Darkness gave him the right platform. Issue #3 arrived on September 25, 2024 as the third monthly chapter of the ongoing run, with rotating short-story contributors filling out the remainder of the book alongside those anchors.
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- Published September 25, 2024 by BOOM! Studios; cover-dated as part of the ongoing Hello Darkness series that launched July 24, 2024.
- Contains Part 3 of 'The War,' the serialized Garth Ennis (writer) and Becky Cloonan (artist) nuclear-war horror story that ran across the first seven issues of Hello Darkness; this chapter follows a couple attempting to flee New York by private plane as nuclear attack becomes imminent.
- Contains Part 3 of 'Something Is Killing the Children: A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar,' the six-part anthology serial by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera — the Slaughterverse spinoff featuring Erica Slaughter that ran exclusively across Hello Darkness #1–6.
- Features 'The Foster,' a body-horror short by Steve Orlando and A.L. Kaplan exploring themes of loneliness; Orlando is credited as an Eisner- and GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer.
- Also includes 'Mukbang,' written by Michael W. Conrad with art by Martín Morazzo and colors by Chris O'Halloran, a social-media horror story set in internet content culture.
- Features 'Kampfgeist,' a war-horror short by Andy Lanning (writer) and Trevor Hairsine (artist), plus a humor-horror installment of Robert Hack's ongoing strip 'I Can't Take You Anywhere.'
- Main cover by Paolo Rivera; variant covers by Jenny Frison, Matteo Scalera (colors by Giovanna Niro), and Annie Wu (whose cover depicts Erica Slaughter); a one-per-store unlockable variant by Rivera and BOOM! Studios Direct Reserve exclusive variants by Frison and Wu were also produced.
- The 'A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar' serial from Hello Darkness #1–6 was later collected as a standalone one-shot, making the anthology run — including issue #3 — the original serialized home of that Slaughterverse chapter.
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