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Creeping
A new internet challenge called "creeping" is sweeping across social media.
"Creeping" is a dangerous online trend that dares participants to spend the night at a frightening location--from crumbling cemeteries to derelict morgues. As more people join in, the competition increases--who can outdo the latest scary destination? One group of thrillseekers determines to find the most terrifying place in the world--an abandoned medieval fortress-turned-insane asylum fills the bill, but they soon realize they are in for more than they bargained for.
Written by Zack Keller (Death Head, Meet Me At The Falls) with original story by Mike Richardson (Echoes, Living with the Dead), and art by Doug Wheatley (AVP: Thicker than Blood, Star Wars: Dark Times), this graphic novel takes you on a horrifying journey where fun and mischief take a shocking turn into the ultimate fight for survival.
"Creeping" is a dangerous online trend that dares participants to spend the night at a frightening location--from crumbling cemeteries to derelict morgues. As more people join in, the competition increases--who can outdo the latest scary destination? One group of thrillseekers determines to find the most terrifying place in the world--an abandoned medieval fortress-turned-insane asylum fills the bill, but they soon realize they are in for more than they bargained for.
Written by Zack Keller (Death Head, Meet Me At The Falls) with original story by Mike Richardson (Echoes, Living with the Dead), and art by Doug Wheatley (AVP: Thicker than Blood, Star Wars: Dark Times), this graphic novel takes you on a horrifying journey where fun and mischief take a shocking turn into the ultimate fight for survival.
88 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 30, 2021
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About the author
Zack Keller
38 books39 followersZack Keller is a writer and director for TV, feature films, videogames and comic books, currently working as a Narrative Director at King and a creator/writer at Dark Horse Comics. After beginning his career at Pixar Animation Studios, he co-created Dick Figures, the highest-rated animated web series on YouTube which earned nearly a billion views and an Annie Award nomination. At Telltale Games, he was a lead writer and narrative designer for such franchises as Guardians of the Galaxy, Batman, The Walking Dead and Tales from the Borderlands. Most recently, he was a screenwriter for Cartoon Network’s animated series Unikitty!, produced by Warner Brothers Animation and The LEGO Group, and wrote the graphic novels Cuphead: Comic Capers & Curios, Creeping, and Hotel REM for Dark Horse Comics.
He lives with his family in San Francisco.
He lives with his family in San Francisco.
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July 28, 2022
On this week’s episode of the Burger King Kids Club, our optimally-diverse friend group flies to Romania to live-stream their exploration of an abandoned, haunted insane asylum. With the craven concessions to the Twitterati Goskomizdat out of the way, the story for unknown reasons sprints from beat to beat in a breathless race to the finish.
The overall production of Creeping is nice. The art ranges from very good to a wee bit stiff, but together story and art do tell a competent version of The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium, House on Haunted Hill (1999), Session 9, Grave Encounters, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, et cetera, et cetera. Actually, it’s more like the last two.
Anyway, Smart, Stupid, Snarky, and Scared barely get to Haunted Asylum #237 and meet Shady when shit hits the fan. And that’s Creeping’s two main problems. These one dimensional characters have zero breathing room to reveal any slightly deeper aspect of themselves to make us want to care if they meet a grisly end or not. Since it’s a by-the-numbers horror story, just a little bit more would have sufficed. Characters having unique reactions and unique things to say is what makes them interesting, not their race, not their gadgets. The reader needs to feel like he’s not just reading a rehash of an old story.
This may be a constraint of things like publishing, page count, production costs, etc, probably, maybe. The pacing is so off it honestly reads like an unsold film script. But another thirty or so pages that fleshed out the story and the characters a little bit more and Creeping would be a tempting hardcover purchase.
The overall production of Creeping is nice. The art ranges from very good to a wee bit stiff, but together story and art do tell a competent version of The Harum-Scarum Sanitarium, House on Haunted Hill (1999), Session 9, Grave Encounters, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, et cetera, et cetera. Actually, it’s more like the last two.
Anyway, Smart, Stupid, Snarky, and Scared barely get to Haunted Asylum #237 and meet Shady when shit hits the fan. And that’s Creeping’s two main problems. These one dimensional characters have zero breathing room to reveal any slightly deeper aspect of themselves to make us want to care if they meet a grisly end or not. Since it’s a by-the-numbers horror story, just a little bit more would have sufficed. Characters having unique reactions and unique things to say is what makes them interesting, not their race, not their gadgets. The reader needs to feel like he’s not just reading a rehash of an old story.
This may be a constraint of things like publishing, page count, production costs, etc, probably, maybe. The pacing is so off it honestly reads like an unsold film script. But another thirty or so pages that fleshed out the story and the characters a little bit more and Creeping would be a tempting hardcover purchase.
August 7, 2022
this is a story that's been done a thousand times. there's nothing particularly unique about this story, the characters are boring and bring nothing to the table but to be a plot device. uninspired with no heart. the art really saved this.
January 8, 2023
Some brutal kills aside and decent art this one felt like every other b-side horror movie.
August 5, 2023
Definitely could have been longer, it felt rushed. There was a lot less "streaming" than I expected. So it didn't feel like they captured most of the events. I think I was expecting something like the movie Nerve (2016).
Also half way through Mihaela just lost her accent?
Also half way through Mihaela just lost her accent?
September 25, 2022
Creeping introduces readers to the internet craze of creeping, where people sneak into abandoned, supposedly haunted locations and hunt around for ghosts whilst getting scared, not leaving the location until morning. We meet one friend group who have made creeping their new hobby: wanna-be internet star Petro, his best friend and rich boy Junjie, his medical student girlfriend Kiara, and Junjie’s girlfriend Izzy. The four of them have been looking for the one big thing that they can do together, and that will get Petro the internet stardom he wants.
When Petro hears about Draghici Asylum, an old medieval castle turned mental asylum, long abandoned in the Romania forests, he knows that it’s the perfect location. With a little convincing the four friends head off to Europe to experience adventure and fame. The four of them hire a local guide to show them the way to the Asylum, and soon begin to get creeped out in the eerie, remote location. When they arrive at the castle they begin to experience strange incidents, and when a huge storm hits and causes the rivers to burst they find themselves trapped at Draghici, and even worse, something there is hunting them.
Creeping is probably the most traditional horror story of the three here, and presents a pretty decent story of a group of teens trapped in a remote location being hunted by monsters. Zack Keller and Mike Richardson, the two writers on the book, do a good job of letting the reader get to know the characters, and a good portion of the book is spent just seeing the four of them in their normal lives before things go horribly wrong for them. The book understands that you don’t need to rush into things, that you can spend some time exploring the mundane before the horror begins, and that it can sometimes make the horror ever scarier.
When things do get scary, however, Creeping is really quite good. The creatures that call Draghici home are some really cool monsters, with interesting designs, a neat origin, and some rather disturbing qualities to them. Whilst I was really happy that the book spent time building the tension before introducing them I wish it could have been a bit longer in the second half so that we could have seen more from these things.
The artwork is provide by Doug Wheatley and Rain Beredo, and is the most traditional comic art style of the three here. The book doesn’t really try anything different in a visual sense, and isn’t too dissimilar to what you’d find in most decent quality big company comic books. This isn’t a criticism, though, as the artwork is solid throughout with clear character designs, some great locations, and wonderfully scary monsters.
If you’re a fan of monster stories and love Gothic, scary locations, Creeping is a great read. It’s also a great look into Internet fads, the sometimes destructive nature of the drive to become famous and recognised, and surprisingly, about coming to accept yourself and to be proud of who you are even if some people consider you to be different.
When Petro hears about Draghici Asylum, an old medieval castle turned mental asylum, long abandoned in the Romania forests, he knows that it’s the perfect location. With a little convincing the four friends head off to Europe to experience adventure and fame. The four of them hire a local guide to show them the way to the Asylum, and soon begin to get creeped out in the eerie, remote location. When they arrive at the castle they begin to experience strange incidents, and when a huge storm hits and causes the rivers to burst they find themselves trapped at Draghici, and even worse, something there is hunting them.
Creeping is probably the most traditional horror story of the three here, and presents a pretty decent story of a group of teens trapped in a remote location being hunted by monsters. Zack Keller and Mike Richardson, the two writers on the book, do a good job of letting the reader get to know the characters, and a good portion of the book is spent just seeing the four of them in their normal lives before things go horribly wrong for them. The book understands that you don’t need to rush into things, that you can spend some time exploring the mundane before the horror begins, and that it can sometimes make the horror ever scarier.
When things do get scary, however, Creeping is really quite good. The creatures that call Draghici home are some really cool monsters, with interesting designs, a neat origin, and some rather disturbing qualities to them. Whilst I was really happy that the book spent time building the tension before introducing them I wish it could have been a bit longer in the second half so that we could have seen more from these things.
The artwork is provide by Doug Wheatley and Rain Beredo, and is the most traditional comic art style of the three here. The book doesn’t really try anything different in a visual sense, and isn’t too dissimilar to what you’d find in most decent quality big company comic books. This isn’t a criticism, though, as the artwork is solid throughout with clear character designs, some great locations, and wonderfully scary monsters.
If you’re a fan of monster stories and love Gothic, scary locations, Creeping is a great read. It’s also a great look into Internet fads, the sometimes destructive nature of the drive to become famous and recognised, and surprisingly, about coming to accept yourself and to be proud of who you are even if some people consider you to be different.
August 8, 2023
I really enjoyed this! I went in with no expectations but I was aware most people gave it a low rating. I wasn't expecting Shakespeare, just a reasonably suspenseful horror story. This exceeded my expectations. It is at the level of those horror movies that don't spend a ton of time on character backstories just throw you right into the action. It was definitely suspenseful and fast paced. There was a movie a while ago about Dyatlov Pass, a subject that never fails to interest me, and Creeping reminded me of that movie. Turn off your brain and enjoy the creepy ride!
September 4, 2023
Nothing new under the sun.
That's more or less how I would characterize this whole story. It's a horror story involving a group that goes after so-called haunted places.
The backgrounds of the characters don't really matter and they all fall in the don't care about category.
So when everything goes to shit we actually just look at the art. Which is good and perfectly serviceable.
Overall, a below average horror story. Good for a quick read and nothing much more.
That's more or less how I would characterize this whole story. It's a horror story involving a group that goes after so-called haunted places.
The backgrounds of the characters don't really matter and they all fall in the don't care about category.
So when everything goes to shit we actually just look at the art. Which is good and perfectly serviceable.
Overall, a below average horror story. Good for a quick read and nothing much more.
April 26, 2022
I’d like to thank edelweiss and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review. When a quartet of college students go to Romania deep in the woods to find this derelict, haunted old asylum, what could possibly go wrong? An interesting story from start to finish with really fun art to match.
February 7, 2023
This is like 3.5 for me. Tbh this was extremely fast paced and not in a good way. First half felt really choppy, second half the fast pace worked out better. I'm a writer not a artist so as always great gowns beautiful gowns looks great. They got that .5 cause (spoiler alert) Black final girl so yay (the bar is in hell I know)
July 5, 2024
4.5 out of 10 - This felt like super rushed experience overall. I wish more was done with the premise. I didn’t care about a single character either, which I don’t mind in campy horror stories, but the horror elements were so generic and lackluster as well. The artwork was so dark at points that I couldn’t even appreciate the finer details in the locations or set pieces.
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June 30, 2022Damn! This was really good. Highly entertaining and satisfying.
September 26, 2022
A horror based graphic novel about an internet trend and haunted locations. I felt like there should be a sequel and that I was missing key information throughout the story.
October 1, 2022
Short and creepy. An excellent horror comic.
February 4, 2023
In 2023, we’re going to start giving good artists some story to work with.
May 13, 2023
3.25 rounded up
July 21, 2024
Basic slasher, but the monster art was cool.
January 10, 2026
Not very good I didn't care about the characters at all and the story felt very rushed.
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