What's Trending: Galactic Horrors

Don't forget your flashlight while exploring this What's Trending! Lurking in the darkest corners of the vast universe lurk horrors we've never imagined. From hunting down killer aliens to defending the planet against galactic threats, the shadowy beings of unknown worlds will make you glad aliens aren't real… are they?

Ice Cream Man: Sundae Edition, 866 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

“I’ve literally never read anything like this ‘genre-defying,’ sorta-anthology thing, but it’s f*cking awesome. The writing is strange and deeply unsettling, and the artwork is gorgeous. The new comic I most look forward to reading each month.” —BRIAN K. VAUGHAN (SAGA, PAPER GIRLS)

Story and Art by Chris O'Halloran, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, W. Maxwell Prince

Rogue Planet, 134 pages - Published by Oni Press, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

The salvage vessel Cortes tracks the Lonely Orphan, a planet with no star system to call its own. Somewhere on this hostile rock is a payload fit for a king. To attain it, though, the crew of the Cortes must brave razor rock, poisonous vapors, treacherous footing, and...the most mind-numbing horrors imaginable. Struggling to stay alive, they are beset at every turn by horrors from their own nightmares. Now, they have discovered that they are not alone on the planet, and the other inhabitants welcome them...as sacrifices to an elder god.

Story and Art by Andy MacDonald, Cullen Bunn, Nick Filardi

Under a Blood-Red Moon, 159 pages - Published by Dren Productions, (cc/ @drenproductions)

The Earth has been invaded by a race of aliens whose only interest is finding new slaves for their empire. This creates a problem for some of the other species living here--vampires and werewolves. The more humans they take off planet, the less food they have. Our fate is locked in between these two warring factions whose only desire is to retrieve their food source. Whoever wins, we lose!

Story and Art by Dren Productions

The Woods (Volume), 1044 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

On October 16, 2013, 437 students, 52 teachers, and 24 additional staff from Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, WI vanished without a trace. Countless light years away, far outside the bounds of the charted universe, 513 people find themselves in the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Where are they? Why are they there? The answers will prove stranger than anyone could possibly imagine.

Story and Art by James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas

Sacrament, 227 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)

The Exorcist meets Alien in this sci-fi/horror story. In the year 3000, Mankind abandoned Earth and fled into outer space. Now, a disgraced priest, called into action to perform an exorcism on a remote space colony, is about to discover that no matter how far you run, you can’t escape your demons, and the Devil is, in fact, real.

Story and Art by AWA Studios

Space, MN, 102 pages - Published by Arcana Comics, (cc/ @SeanArcana)

Why did the widow, Mrs. Lee, murder her only son? Can the reports of an undead cat possibly be true? What happened to the two paramedics that disappeared during their shift? Space, Minnesota was a quiet town until the Multi Associated Global International Cosmetics (MAGIC) corporation arrived. Now, the Mayor is acting strange and people are dying. The brave men and women of the Space Police...

Story and Art by Bruno Oliveira, Chandran Ponnusamy, Shawn DePasquale

Congratulations on making it through the horrors of our What's Trending this week. If you want more scary stories to test your grit, you can find more Trending Horror titles here.

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