Archie Comics brings horror home for the holidays!

Archie Comics is wishing everybody a very scary vacation season with an all-new one-shot comedian, HAPPY HORRORDAYS, hitting retailer cabinets (and stockings) in December! The horror anthology contains a return to the world of the hit Archie Horror sequence JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER by creators Frank Tieri (Deadpool) and Joe Eisma (Morning Glories), together with two extra tales of yuletide terror certain to maintain you up at evening hoping that sound on the roof is who you suppose it’s.

Setting up his providing, Tieri stated, “In ‘‘Twas the Night Before the Hunger,’ X-Mas turns into an X-Massacre when Jughead finds himself up against none other than a pissed off Krampus one fine Christmas morn. It’s a nice little tale of ho-ho-horror where we may see more than just Christmas cookies and hamburgers getting eaten.” In Tieri’s JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER sequence, Jughead is a werewolf, and we had been handled to a different journey again to that fan-favorite universe in CHILLING ADVENTURES PRESENTS… WEIRDER MYSTERIES, a sci-fi horror one-shot launched in September.

In the second story, impressed by Icelandic folklore by author Joanne Starer (Sirens of the City) and artist Butch Mapa (Star Wars), a terrifying cryptid groups up with Sheila Wu, a personality launched in the now-classic “New Kids Off the Wall” storyline by Alex Simmons and Dan Parent in 2010. Starer stated, “Outcast fashionista Sheila Wu has one friend in the world. It just happens to be a terrifying, gigantic cat — the Yule Cat of Icelandic folklore, known to hunt children who don’t get new clothing for Christmas. When bullies Veronica and Cheryl Blossom mock her clothes and reject her gifts, well, they get a Christmas present they’ll never forget!”

Rounding out the particular vacation concern is a terrifying twist on a staple Archie Christmas character, Sugar Plum, Santa’s fairy helper, by author Joe Corallo (She Said Destroy) and artist Patrick Piazzalunga (Project Patron). “In my last Archie comic, JINX GRIM FAIRY TALES, I had the opportunity to take the previously heroic character of Kardak the Mystic and reintroduce him as a villain that needed to be overcome,” Corallo stated. “This time, I got to give the same treatment to Sugar Plum. I won’t reveal much more as I want to avoid spoilers, but I hope people are pulled in from the first page and shocked by where the story goes!”

HAPPY HORRORDAYS, with colours by Matt Herms and lettering by Jack Morelli, releases December 14 in comedian outlets nationwide and is out there for pre-order now. It will function a canopy by Adam Gorham and an open-to-order variant cowl by Archie Horror legend Robert Hack.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a… werewolf?! The holidays look a little different in Riverdale this year—Santa’s nowhere in sight however Krampus is on the rampage! Who can take him down? Why solely somebody who can meet his match, and that somebody’s finest good friend/monster hunter. That’s proper, WereJug returns to do battle with the horned and hoofed vacation beast with Betty Cooper in his nook! Then, we dive into the true story of the Icelandic xmas cat, Jólakötturinn, and her grasp—Sheila Wu?! Finally, Reggie meets a pleasant lady that he takes to the vacation dance—however issues aren’t as they appear when she systematically dismantles Reggie’s life! The holidays are horrifying on this particular horror anthology that reunites the crew of Jughead: the Hunger!

Script: Frank Tieri, Joanne Starer, Joe Corallo
Art: Joe Eisma, Butch Mapa, Patrick Piazzalunga
Colors: Matt Herms
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Adam Gorham
Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 12/14
32-page, full colour comedian
$3.99 U.S.