Spotted: IDW’s most spooktacular series ever. From the spine-chilling minds of Monster High superfans Jacque Aye and Caroline Shuda comes Monster High: New Scaremester!
Spotted: IDW’s most spooktacular series ever. From the spine-chilling minds of Monster High superfans Jacque Aye and Caroline Shuda comes Monster High: New Scaremester!
Ghouls and boos are heading back to Monster High for a new scaremester in the first volume of this new comic series! While they’ll certainly be serving lurks in the hallway and haunting study howl, rumor has it that trouble is brewing. Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf, Cleo de Nile, and Frankie Stein have never met a bad scare day or monstrous problem they couldn’t fix together…but Drac’s in over her fangs with new responsibilities, Clawdeen and Cleo aren’t speaking, and Frankie’s life may be in danger. The beasties need a fresh start, and what better time than the new scaremester? Surely a reconciliation is lurking just around the dark and foreboding coroner. Volume 1 collects the 2024 Free Comic Book Day issue, Monster High Pride, and issues #1–4 of Monster High: New Scaremester writers.
Pride Month is upon us once again! As monsters gear up to skelebrate their LGBTQIA+ fiends, I have two defrightfully adorable pieces of gossip about two of Monster High’s favorite couples… First, we all know and love the fiercest and most fashionable ghoulfriends: Clawdeen Wolf and Toralei Stripe, A.K.A. Toradeen. But how did they go from hisses to kisses? It’s simple math, really. Clawculus + a common enemy + forced proximity = the perfect love story. Nothing screams romance quite like math camp. Then, Spelldon Cauldronello and Kieran Valentine are feariously couple goals. But my Criers tell me that dating as an emotional vampire can make things a bit awkward.
Spotted: IDW’s most spooktacular series ever. From the spine-chilling minds of Monster High superfans Jacque Aye and Caroline Shuda comes Monster High: New Scaremester. Ghouls and boos are heading back to Monster High for a new scaremester. And while they’ll certainly be serving lurks in the hallway and haunting study howl, rumor has it that trouble is brewing. Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf, Cleo de Nile, and Frankie Stein have never met a bad scare day or monstrous problem they couldn’t fix together, but…Drac’s in over her fangs with her new responsibilities, Clawdeen and Cleo aren’t speaking, and Frankie’s life may be in danger. The beasties need a fresh start, and what better time than the new scaremester? Surely a reconciliation is lurking just around the dark and foreboding coroner.
Dreadful news, ghouls: Fearleading tryouts are upon us again—the time of year when every ghoul can be found practicing their tryout routines in the hallways. But the shouts of, “Go, Fright, Win!” have almost been drowned out by the sound of Cleo de Nile shaking in her Scaremes boots. Without her ghoul squad behind her, Cleo’s reign as queen bee is losing commoner support, and she needs a spot on the team to secure her dynasty for another scaremester. Every ghoul knows that the fearleaders run the school, and none know that better than our queen bee. Nothing will stop her from another year in the gore-geous uniform. But you know what they say... It’s lonely at the top of the pyramid. —XOXO CryptCrier
Though the ghouls of Monster High love to lurk in the shadows, living in Dracula’s larger-than-unlife shadow is starting to make Draculaura’s faboolous pigtails droop. Draculaura has always strived to make Dracula happy by being the perfect vampire, packing her schedule with fearleading practices, creative frighting assignments, and student bloody council meetings. But after her father’s tragic death, Draculaura is tasked with becoming Monster High’s protector, which requires a shocking number of even more duties, assignments, and meetings. The poor little vampire can hardly find time to fang out with her beasties. If I were her ghoulfriends, I would schedule a creepover before she boo-lows up. —XOXO CryptCrier
Whispers are skittering through the hallways of Monster High, spine-chilling rumors about the hottest new piece of gossip: me. So let me introduce myself and set the record straight. The name’s CryptCrier. You don’t know who I am, but I’m die-sturbingly familiar with you all… Your dubious deeds have been done in the dark…and it’s about time they come to light. And that’s why I’m here, boos. After all, secrets don’t make fiends. --XOXO CryptCrier
Good mourning, beasties. My page has been feeling a bit dour recently, so I’d like to switch it up a bit and praise one of Monster High’s brightest ghouls. Ghoulia Yelps is simply a cut above the rest. All the whole brain bread she eats must go straight to her head because she’s the only ghoul who can ace even Mr. Rotter’s hardest tests. And while she’s slowly lumbering through the hallways long after everyone else has made it to class, Ghoulia sees things that the rest of us are too busy to notice. Like Cleo de Nile crying in a bathroom stall, and Clawdeen jumping anytime a ghoul mentions Toralei’s name. Maybe she knows what has happened to all the missing students? If you ask me, Ghoulia Yelps would make an excellent Crier. --XOXO CryptCrier
Knocking at D’Eath’s door is a ghoul’s lowest moment. When there is a problem even a trip to the maul or a gossip sesh with your beasties can’t fix, the students of Monster High find themselves turning to D’Eath, the school’s guidance counselor. Robecca Steam has been spotted, rusty with tears, outside of D’Eath’s office almost every day this scaremester, and just yesterday dear Draculaura was spotted lingering outside his door… I have to admit, ghouls, I’m feeling a bit inspired by their vulnerability. I lurk in the shadows to see what others do not, but each day the halls of Monster High grow darker and darker with misdeeds and betrayals, and I can’t see it all anymore.
Dive into the final oversized issue of Monster High: New Scaremester! This just in: School's out for...spring. It feels like the new scaremester just started, but our dutiful headmaster has called off school for the rest of the year. After almost a dozen students have disappeared under Headmaster Frankenstein’s administration, the monster has finally stitched his act together long enough to take action. If you ask me, it’s too little too late. Loyal Criers will know that I’ve been raising alarm bells all scaremester while the administration and school board have turned a blind eye to the issues. It’s time to take action, ghouls. Let’s end this scaremester with a bang. —XOXO CryptCrier