The Creep is back, but this time, he’s offers tales of horror infused with classic superhero tropes — and it’s already one of the best comic book anthologies out there.
Creepshow is one of the most popular and beloved horror anthologies of all-time. The franchise has one simple mantra: It’s the most fun you’ll ever have being scared. Creepshow began back in the ’80s with the original movie, directed by genre legend George A. Romero (of zombie movie fame) and written by Stephen King. The movie spawned a sequel, a threequel (which fans choose to ignore), and of course, Greg Nicotero’s cult TV series on Shudder. The series would make its natural progression into the comics medium through Image Comics/Skybound in 2019, garnering a dedicated audience of its own.
In 2026, the ‘Creepshow Universe’ expanded to new horizons with Super Creepshow, a series retelling classic superhero stories in its signature creepy style. It doesn’t directly use existing IPs, but it takes genre elements, ideas, and tropes and re-works them. For instance, in issue #1 Ryan North (The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Fantastic Four, One World Under Doom) delivers a brilliant story depicting super-speed as the most terrifying superpower of them all.
“It’s really a power of isolation: you can do things others can’t, and nobody else can see you do them,” North told us in our exclusive interview. “When you use your powers, you’re isolated from the world – they stop moving, become statues, and you alone can see that. It felt like it would be a really creepy experience – when viewed through the right lens.”
The other story in issue #1 came from Kieron Gillen (Once & Future, Die, The Wicked + The Divine), who depicted a spider-bite that does not bestow superpowers, but evolves into a body horror on the scale of David Cronenberg’s The Fly. “Really, it came from something I think when reading those early Ditko issues – how people talk about how horrible Spider-Man is,” Gillen told us. “Now, we see Spider-Man… but they clearly don’t. Doing a story about the horror of that kind of archetype.”
Super Creepshow doesn’t mimic superhero stories, it completely and expertly ‘creepifies‘ them. It achieves its aim in the same way that the ‘Evil Superhero’ trope has been ubiquitous, most notably thanks to The Boys and Invincible. Super Creepshow takes concepts and tropes and carves out new chilling new depictions. And in a sense, it’s more realistic; it doesn’t sugar-coat superpowers in a way that Marvel does, for instance. In North’s story, super-speed is genuinely horrific and emotionally isolating. Meanwhile, Gillen’s spider-bite story leads not to glamour, but genuine body horror.
Super Creepshow is only a limited series, but it currently feels like there’s more than enough scope and longevity to keep this spin-off going for many more issues, for years to come.
Pick up your copy of 'Super Creepshow #1' here.
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