A new thrill – or perhaps chill – debuts in this week’s 2000 AD courtesy of writer T.C. Eglington, artist Simon Davis and letterer Annie Parkhouse. We have a sneak peek of Thistlebone for you today at Broken Frontier courtesy of our friends in the Nerve Centre. Immerse yourselves in an unsettling 5-page preview of this new serial below…
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise… Creepy new folk-horror series Thistlebone by T.C. Eglington and Simon Davis begins in 2000 AD Prog 2135. Cult survivor Avril Eason and journalist Seema Chaudry head back to the secluded rural village of Harrowvale, which holds a dark past — years earlier, on a farm bordering the vast tracts of woodland, it hosted a cult that was seeking to escape civilisation and find purity in the old ways, namely worshipping an ancient deity called THISTLEBONE. Led by the charismatic Jasper Hillman, their pagan beliefs grew ever more radical to the point where they held the young Avril Eason captive with the intention of sacrificing her. But Avril escaped…
2000 AD Prog 2135 goes on sale on June 12th. For more on the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic visit the 2000 AD website here.
