{"id":4304,"date":"2024-09-27T10:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2024-09-27T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:36:32","slug":"freak-out-friday-meat-eaters-a-grisly-new-graphic-novel-coming-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horrorfatale.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/27\/freak-out-friday-meat-eaters-a-grisly-new-graphic-novel-coming-next-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Freak Out Friday \u2014 \u201cMeat Eaters,\u201d a grisly new graphic novel coming next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oni Press, multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher, announced the next stunning installment in its summer 2025 graphic novel lineup: Meat Eaters<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Let it be said that dying is rough. Nineteen-year-old Ashley Moore found this out the hard way. <\/em><\/p>\n

All Ashley wanted was to keep her head down and work hard until she could escape the small town where she felt she was stagnating. But after waking up one night covered in blood\u2014and irrevocably dead\u2014Ashley finds her foolproof plan for getting out has gone up in smoke, and something within her has changed. <\/em><\/p>\n

Without a heartbeat and with a disturbing craving for fresh\u2014preferably bloody\u2014meat, Ashley finds herself privy to a world that exists just beneath our own: a world of ghouls and monsters and things that go bump-in-the-night. Despite her desire to be left alone\u2014and to not think about the night of her death at all\u2014Ashley is slowly drawn into the realm of the unusual, getting advice from ancient vampires, dodging angry pack leaders, and becoming the reluctant big sister to werewolves Motley and Harrison. As she does, she finds it increasingly difficult to put away the parts of herself she wishes to ignore\u2014namely, what happened that fateful night she stopped breathing. The truth, it turns out, can\u2019t stay buried forever.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meat Eaters <\/em><\/strong>is from cartoonist Meredith McClaren\u2014co-creator of the acclaimed series Black Cloak.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMEAT EATERS is an ode to all the teen horror television I lovingly consumed over the years,\u201d said Writer and Illustrator Meredith McClaren. \u201cWhere there are bad things in the world, sometimes they hurt you, and sometimes that makes you change in ways you do not like.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s giving iZombie<\/em> vibes, so I\u2019m into it. The samples pages look pretty good and I like Ms. McClaren\u2019s illustrations. Also, it’s a nod to the effects of trauma and anxiety, which is actually pretty scary.<\/p>\n