Roll Out The Betamax — Magma Comix Announces ‘The Night Of The Slashers’
by Brendan M. Allen
Surviving the night is everything! Magma Comix has announced The Night Of The Slashers for Fall 2024. Writer Cavan Scott and artist Paul Fry bring the gore in this ultimate horror-loving slasher-fest.
Hill Creek is a lovely place to visit … except on one night of the year, when its citizens transform into bloodthirsty maniacs. Of course, that’s the very night Lara’s bus breaks down, stranding the disillusioned teen and her classmates in the secluded town. Secrets uncovered, terror at every turn. Will anyone survive the night?
“As you can probably tell from the title, Night of the Slashers is a love letter to slasher movies, an obsession that began when I saw my first serial killer (Halloween 2 on a dodgy VHS at my friend’s 12th birthday party) and has now been passed onto my daughter,” said Scott. “It was only a matter of time before I came up with my own walking nightmare in the mold of Michael, Jason or Jason, but when I met artist Paul Fry and immediately bonded over horror movies, it soon became clear that one wasn’t enough.
“If we were going to write a slasher, we wanted an entire town of masked knife-wielding killers. This series has everything we love in slasher movies! Victims, you can’t wait to see sliced ‘n’ diced, larger-than-life monsters, gallons of blood and gruesome deaths galore. No one is safe in The Night of the Slashers. No one at all.”
“My Dad owned a video shop when I was young. Way before the likes of Blockbuster Video,” added Fry. “We were lucky enough to have a VHS and Betamax player which ended up in my room. I grew up watching more movies than you can imagine. I gravitated to all the superhero cartoons, sci-fi and of course horror films. Growing up when the original Star Wars trilogy, Alien and Superman movies initially came out didn’t hurt either and there was also the original A Nightmare on Elm Street.
“There’s nothing more horrifying than being chased by a monster that can rip you to shreds. Exactly my cup of tea—After speaking to Cavan about our love of slasher movies, and hearing a premise he had in mind, I was immediately intrigued and knew this needed to be done. Up steps Magma Comix who also loved the idea and the creation of The Night of the Slashers was soon fleshed out from the corpses of teenage victims. I couldn’t be happier.”
The Night of the Slashers #1 hits spinner racks on October 2, 2024, just in time for spooky season.
