31 Days Of Halloween Comics: The Beauty

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If you’ve been as obsessed with The Substance as the rest of the world, boy do we have a great follow-up for you: The Beauty, a comic book series by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley.

Originally launched as part of Top Cow’s “Pilot Season” program — which it won — The Beauty takes place in a world where there’s an STD, called The Beauty, which makes you beautiful if you get it. The only problem? As becomes abundantly clear in the first issue, it might also cause you to spontaneously combust.

There’s a lot more going on in the book, which focuses on two cops — one with The Beauty, one without — who are investigating these strange explosions. And it spirals out into some wild and profound directions as it goes. It’s part sci-fi, part horror, part procedural police book… Yet wholly original, and unlike anything you’ve ever read.

The style Haun uses throughout is inflected with noir — per the cop main characters — but manages to really hone in on the differences between characters pre- and post-Beauty. That’s tricky to do, but it works in spades here, positing a world where Beauty comes with a big price, but one most folks are willing to pay.

It’s also being adapted into a TV series by Ryan Murphy, starring Evan Peters, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, and Jeremy Pope. So if you want to say you were a fan from way back when before it blows up online, check out the book this Halloween. It’s, shall we say, beautiful.

The Beauty has been collected in six volumes, but if you want to try before you buy, you can read the first issue of The Beauty free at Image Comics‘s website.

The Beauty #1

It’s spooky season, and you know what that means: time to curl up with a comic book or graphic novel that will scare your socks off. With that in mind, we’re posting a new horror book to check out every day of October, for our 31 Days Of Halloween Comics. Awoooo! Looking for the rest of our picks? Check them out on the Halloween tag.

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