Are you ready to return to the cyberpunk horror world of Cemetery Kids? Well, get ready, because Zac Thompson and Daniel Irizarri are launching a brand new miniseries from Oni Press: Cemetery Kids Rub Rabid.
“Zac and Daniel have brilliantly amplified the terror and heartbreak of these Cemetery Kids,” said Sierra Hahn, Oni Press editor in chief. “It makes for a thrilling ride back into Nightmare Cemetery where they’ll confront real-world horrors leaving you to wonder if they ever left the game all . . .”
In the all-new jumping-on point, we pick up a year after the first series, where a group of kids had played a horrific video game called Nightmare Cemetery. After surviving getting locked inside the game, they fall prey to one of the greatest horrors to be visited on gamers in the sequel: DLC. Specifically, The Blighted Sprawl, which appears online suddenly and starts bleeding out into the real world.
“Returning to the strange and violent world of Cemetery Kids with the singular Daniel Irizarri is a thrilling privilege,” said Thompson. “So we’re not here to waste your time. Run Rabid takes everything you loved about the first volume and amplifies it ten-fold for a character-driven horror story played on nightmare difficulty. It’s a meaner, scarier book that reckons with false victories and dead futures. And it’s all soaked in the gore and viscera of the disgusting monsters that live inside your head. So come, experience your nightmares with us. And try not to worry about waking up.”
Added Irizarri, “Continuing Cemetery Kids has let us really hone in on what makes this world unique and terrifying. Zac’s writing is my favorite so far, tapping further into our anxieties about the invasive intelligences of future psycho-technologies, creating a genuine sense of dread that our characters are truly in over their heads and the nightmare is consuming them bit by bit. The dual-reality nature also evolves as the kids feel more alone than ever finding new, terrible ways of coping with a dying future society by day, while in nightmares, exploring our abandoned liminal spaces twisted and rotted by time and trauma. Their RPG avatars may have gotten upgrades, but nothing can prepare them for THE BLIGHTED SPRAWL.”
Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #1 will feature covers by Irizarri, Martin Simmonds, and Gegê Schall. It hits stores on August 13, 2025.
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