Hello Darkness #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHello Darkness #4 (October 2024) is a notable installment in BOOM! Studios' ambitious revival of the prestige horror anthology format — a genre largely absent from mainstream comics since the heyday of Warren Publishing's Creepy and Eerie. The issue advances two of the series' flagship serialized anchors simultaneously: part four of Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan's 'The War,' a grounded, human-scale survival story set in a besieged New York City, and a chapter of the six-part Something Is Killing the Children 'Slaughterverse' story by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera, which marks one of the few times the acclaimed Erica Slaughter mythology has been developed in short-form anthology format. Arriving squarely in spooky season (October 23), the issue exemplifies the anthology's editorial mission of pairing marquee serialized work with standalone short horror from newer voices, demonstrating that the monthly horror anthology — once thought commercially unfeasible — could sustain reader investment through a blend of prestige creators and emerging talent.
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Hello Darkness launched on July 24, 2024, as BOOM! Studios' answer to the classic horror anthology tradition, explicitly positioning itself in the lineage of Creepy, Eerie, and the modern televisual horror anthology Black Mirror. The series was assembled with an unusually deep roster of talent from the start — Ennis and Cloonan's 'The War' was slated for seven consecutive installments, while Tynion IV and Dell'Edera's Something Is Killing the Children serial was conceived as a six-issue arc that Tynion noted had been 'in the back of my mind for almost five years' before Hello Darkness gave it the right home. By issue #4, BOOM! had also expanded the cover program to include a dedicated Halloween variant by Frazer Irving, underscoring the publisher's intent to synchronize the anthology's release rhythm with seasonal horror culture.
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- Published October 23, 2024 by BOOM! Studios — the fourth monthly issue of the ongoing Hello Darkness anthology series, which launched July 24, 2024.
- Contains 'The War Part Four,' written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by Becky Cloonan (colors by Tamra Bonvillain), the fourth chapter of their seven-part serialized survival horror story set in New York City.
- Includes a new chapter of the Something Is Killing the Children 'Slaughterverse' storyline by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera — part of a six-issue arc running through Hello Darkness #1–6, featuring a new story involving character Erica Slaughter.
- Standalone stories in the issue include 'Dying for Quiet' (writer Shawn Patrick Boyd, artist Elijah Henry, colorist Jason Wordie, letterer Taylor Esposito) and 'All Eyes on Me' by Chloe Brailsford, plus the recurring single-panel humor strip 'I Can't Take You Anywhere' by Robert Hack.
- Main cover by Paolo Rivera; variant covers by Jenny Frison and Jay Shaw, plus a special Halloween variant by Frazer Irving — the rotating guest-cover program is a designed feature of every Hello Darkness issue.
- The series positions itself as a spiritual successor to Warren Publishing's horror anthologies (Creepy, Eerie) and the contemporary horror anthology tradition exemplified by Black Mirror.
- Hello Darkness proved durable enough to spin off themed one-shots: Hello Halloween #1 and Hello Body Horror #1 (April 2026), the latter collecting stories from the anthology alongside new material.
- BOOM! Studios was founded in 2005 by Ross Richie; Hello Darkness is released under the publisher's flagship BOOM! Studios imprint, which also publishes Something Is Killing the Children and BRZRKR.
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