"Exquisite Corpses combines the elements of a classic mystery with a to-the-death struggle in the vein of The Purge or Hunger Games." —FORBES Trick-or-treating. Clocking in for your shift at work. Going to the annual Halloween party down at the Pit. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine, any one of these activities could spell a gruesome death as twelve of the most dangerous killers in the world turn their sleepy little town into the playing field for a game that will decide the fate of the entire country for years to come. James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children, The Department of Truth) and Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein) have assembled some of the most talented creators in the industry to pull off a horror event like no other. As the body count rises in this second volume, James and Michael are joined by Che Grayson (Dark Spaces: Good Deeds), Jordie Bellaire (Redlands), Tyler Boss (You’ll Do Bad Things), Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian), Adam Gorham (Hellhunters), Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special), and Gavin Fullerton (The Closet) to decide the fates of killers and citizens alike. In the world of Exquisite Corpses, no one is safe. Collects issues #4-8
JAMES TYNION IV is the writer of Batman, and many other titles for DC Comics, including Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, and the New York Times best selling Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy. He is the co-creator of Wynd, Something is Killing the Children, Memetic, and the GLAAD award winning series, The Woods. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his partner and their nice old dog.
Jordie Bellaire is a two-time Eisner winning colorist for acclaimed projects such as
Vision,
They're Not Like Us,
Pretty Deadly,
Injection,
Auttumnlands etc, as well as mainstream hits like
Batman,
Deadpool,
Moon Knight, and
Hawkeye. She is writer and co-creator with artist Vanesa R. Del Rey on the ongoing Image Comics series
Redlands.
She lives in Ireland with her famous cat, Buffy.
Tyler Boss is an Eisner-nominated, award winning cartoonist and designer. His titles included
Dead Dog's Bite, as well as
4 Kids Walk into a Bank and
What's the Furthest Place from Here? with his frequent collaborator Matthew Rosenberg. Go Bills.
Pornsak Pichetshote started his career as a Thai-American rising star editor at DC's Vertigo imprint, his books being nominated for dozens of Eisner awards -- from the award-winning
Daytripper to critical darling
Sweet Tooth. He left Vertigo to become an executive in DC Entertainment's media team, where he started and oversaw DC's TV department. His critical and commercial horor book INFIDEL marked his first major work as a comics writer.
His current work with Image Comics is the Eisner- and Harvey-winning THE GOOD ASIAN, which he's currently adapting for television with James Wan's Atomic Monster.
Michael Walsh is an Eisner Award-winning artist and writer from Southern Ontario, Canada.
In 2013, Michael broke into comics with the Image Comics book series COMEBACK. Shortly after, Michael contributed art on a follow-up comic to the hit television series
The X-Files for IDW. Then, in the following years, he worked primarily with Marvel Comics on superhero properties such as
Spider-Man, The Avengers and the
X-Men. He also adapted the
Star Wars film
The Last Jedi as a comic book mini-series. And created art for the DC/Dark Horse crossover event comic,
Black Hammer/Justice League. In 2021, Michael returned to creator-owned comics, creating the hit ongoing Image series THE SILVER COIN and the viral webcomic
The Sleep Stories. In 2022, he released his middle-grade fantasy original graphic novel
The Oates & The Elphyne, published by Humanoids BIG.
