Talking Turkey: AHOY Comics Announces Horror-Comedy One-Shot ‘Thanksgiving’ By Mark Russell And Mauricet

by Olly MacNamee

AHOY Comics, Mark Russell (X-Factor, Second Coming), artist Mauricet (Howl) and letterer Rob Steen are celebrating the holiday season with a new black comedy one-shot this October. It will come with covers by Mauricet: a main cover, a “Blood for Dinner” variant, and a “Turkey Death” variant. Here’s the plot:

“Thanksgiving: a day for American families, when the alienated, the estranged, and the politically antagonistic come together to perform unity—until the strain inevitably tears them apart. But for one family, the addition of a cruel and deadly secret—involving the continuing rampage of the mysterious Turkeyneck Killer—solidly binds them together in the saddest, most shameful way.”

And here’s Russell on the tone of the book:

“Thanksgiving is a black comedy using the most American of holidays as a metaphor for what our nation is in danger of becoming. It tells the story of a nuclear family with many of the same divisions you find within our nation and how deep the rifts between people become while we aren’t paying attention. About how a monster lurks in plain sight, but we choose not to see it.”

Mauricet added:

“Welcome to the Grandts family’s Thanksgiving dinner. Please take a seat at the table. We are about to start serving the meal. For the appetizer, you will have a bit of dysfunctional America wrapped in cynical humor. For the main course, we offer you one of the most original serial killers the country has known. Still hungry? Expect a rather surprising dessert…”

And not to be left out, AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer said:

“Mark got mad about something big and wrote this story—I think to help process it. I think it’ll help us all process it. Whenever he gets mad, I hope he brings it to AHOY. Mauricet, meanwhile, is doing the best work of his career, but then he always seems to be.”