Cemetery Kids Don’t Die, Vol. 1

Author Thompson (Hunt for the Skinwalker) and illustrator Irizarri (Xino) offer a chilling reflection on the cost of escapism. In a dystopian future, the Cemetery Kids, a group of friends bonded through trauma and familial dysfunction, become deeply obsessed with Nightmare Cemetery, a brutal open-world horror game in which players seek to defeat the monstrous King of Sleep. Nightmare Cemetery is played on a device called Dreamwave that transforms players’ dreams into an immensely immersive, cooperative video game. What begins as escapism takes a sinister turn when one of the Cemetery Kids doesn’t wake up after a night of gaming. When the other three Cemetery Kids discover that their friend’s consciousness has become trapped inside the world of Nightmare Cemetery, they embark upon a perilous rescue mission across a world of body horror and psychological tension, evocative of the works of novelist Clive Barker and filmmaker David Cronenberg.