Oh, they ate: Mark Russell and Mauricet are serving up a horror-comedy feast with the upcoming AHOY Comics one-shot, Thanksgiving.
“Thanksgiving is a black comedy using the most American of holidays as a metaphor for what our nation is in danger of becoming,” said Russell via press release. “It tells the story of a nuclear family with many of the same divisions you find within our nation and how deep the rifts between people become while we aren’t paying attention. About how a monster lurks in plain sight, but we choose not to see it.”
Added Mauricet, “Welcome to the Grandts family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Please take a seat at the table. We are about to start serving the meal. For the appetizer, you will have a bit of dysfunctional America wrapped in cynical humor. For the main course, we offer you one of the most original serial killers the country has known. Still hungry? Expect a rather surprising dessert…”
As the creative team teases, the 48-page issue focuses on a “family dinner gone horribly wrong,” where one family harboring a dark secret involving “the continuing rampage of the mysterious Turkeyneck Killer” binds them together, while tearing them apart.
“Mark got mad about something big and wrote this story—I think to help process it,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “I think it’ll help us all process it. Whenever he gets mad, I hope he brings it to AHOY. Mauricet, meanwhile, is doing the best work of his career, but then he always seems to be.”
Thanksgiving #1 hits stores on October 22, with letters by Rob Steen, and three covers by Mauricet.
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