The Nasty: New Slasher Comic with Killer Imaginary Friend
By Liam McGuire
Apr 5th 2023
It’s time to get nasty! Vault Comics is debuting a brand-new slasher-inspired horror comic book series that has already gotten some serious buzz. In The Nasty, eighteen-year-old Thumper Cornell gets an imaginary friend in the form of his favorite masked killer from horror films - think Jason or Freddy. However, when he comes across a VHS of a horror movie that has become the target of controversy, as it’s so scary there are calls to ban it, it will cause Thumper to question what’s real and what’s imaginary… to bloody and violent results.
While Vault Comics might be best known for its fantasy and science fiction series, the publisher has also taken a deep dive into the horror genre. From the haunted secrets of The Plot by Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Joshua Hixon, Jordan Boyd, and Jim Campbell, the vampire-filled These Savage Shores by Ram V, Sumit Kumar, Vittorio Astone, and Aditya Bidikar to the dark story of an unreliable narrator of Fearscape from Ryan O’Sullivan, Andrea Mutti, Vlad Popov, and Deron Bennett. However, in The Nasty by Jon Lees, George Kambadais, Adam Cahoon, and Tim Daniel, Vault is telling the dark story of a teenager and his deadly, imaginary friend.
Eighteen-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favourite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” – films so scary, they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn. But it’s only a movie, right? It’s all just imaginary, isn’t it?
A story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR!”
The Nasty will feature several covers with the debut issue. Adam Cahoon and Sally Cantirino provide the main and variant cover. In addition, Maan House (1:5), Iain Laurie (1:10), Robert Wilson (1:25) will provide incentive variants, with Max Sarin (1:50), Jason Shawn (1:75), and a foil version of House’s cover (1:100) getting a deluxe variant cover. The Nasty already has a second printing on the way, with it being one of the most anticipated comics of April. The different covers for the Vault Comics series are available to order now at CaptCan Comics, with future issues of The Nasty available for preorder. Considering the monumental rise of horror comics that have exploded after their debut issue, such as Something is Killing the Children, you won’t want to miss this one!
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