The Last Halloween: Children
Book 1 in The Last Halloween
- Subject
- Comics & Graphic Novels - Horror
- Age
- Teen
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Iron Circus Comics
- Size
- 16.8 cm × 25.9 cm
- ISBN
- 9781945820663
The monster apocalypse is nigh, but never fear! Humanity is under the protection of . . . this crew?
It’s a lonely Halloween night for ten-year-old Mona. While everyone else is out having a ghoulishly good time, she’s stuck inside without so much as a scary movie to watch. Just when she figures this evening can’t get much worse, a giant monster appears in her living room, proving her very, very wrong. Running for her life, Mona quickly sees that she’s not alone; trick-or-treating’s been canceled due to monster invasion! A barrier keeping billions of monsters at bay has broken and the horrific hordes have descended upon humanity, wreaking bloody havoc everywhere they stomp, slither, or squish. She may not be equipped for it, but it’s up to Mona to save the world with a team of fellow weirdos by her side. Perhaps they will succeed. Or perhaps this will be . . . The Last Halloween.
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What reviewers said
"Howard’s illustrations are unquestionably striking, utilizing a perfect mood-setting black-and-white pen-and-ink scheme and grabbing its reader with both the scope of its imagination and its clever use of perspective. . . . A comic horror tour de force."
"Tailor-made for fans of postmodern horror comedy."
"Howard’s writing is so razor-sharp, it might have blood dripping from it."
"Underneath the nonstop gags in this series starter exists an endearingly emotional journey about a child reconciling herself to the weight of the world thrust upon her."
“[Like] Sendak did, [Howard] trusts children perhaps more than most adults to understand that fear is not inherently a bad thing.”
"A strange book that mixes grotesque gore and terrifying monsters with sarcastic laugh-out-loud humor and surprisingly sweet side-plots."
"A comic horror tour de force."
"An endearingly emotional journey."
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