What is Super Creepshow?
Once upon a time – and by that I mean the year 1982 – there was a horror comedy anthology film called “Creepshow”. It was directed by horror legend George A. Romero (RIP) and written by Stephen King (his screenwriting debut). It contained six unique stories and tapped into King’s adoration for mid twentieth century horror comics like Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror and the Haunt of Fear. Then in 2019, a recurring horror tv series of the same name, launched on horror streamer Shudder. A comic book series, published by Skybound and Image Comics, would soon follow.
Super Creepshow is a spinoff comic book mini-series to the Creepshow comic book and tv show. Focusing on dark, superhero-themed horror satire. But don’t let that fool you – because this comic book series isn’t limited to tights and capes.
Super Creepshow #1 Review
Look, if you told me that a comic spinning off from a Shudder streaming show — itself a spinoff of a 1982 George Romero and Stephen King horror anthology film — was going to be one of the most entertaining first issues of 2026, I’d have called you a liar. And yet here we are. Super Creepshow #1, published by Skybound and Image Comics, lands hard and weird and sticky, like something you’d peel off the floor of a rundown shack in the woods. And I mean that as the highest possible compliment.
The premise is exactly what it sounds like: take the Creepshow anthology format — that beloved tradition of EC Comics-style moral comeuppance wrapped in black humour and practical effects gore — and filter it through a superhero lens. But don’t let the spandex alarm bells go off. This isn’t some Marvel parody book. Super Creepshow is dark, nasty, and gleefully mean-spirited in all the right ways.
Creeping, the first story from Kieron Gillen and artist Rossi Gifford, is essentially a Spider-Man origin story reimagined as a Cronenberg body horror nightmare, and honestly? It’s better for it. Marcus is your classic put-upon teenage loser, victimised by a bully named Duncan, retreating to a drug den in the woods with his sort-of friend Beth. A spider bite follows. A transformation follows. Revenge follows — and then the story does what only the best horror anthology tales do: it pivots on you.
Just when you think Marcus might be the protagonist worth rooting for, the rug gets pulled, the black widow metaphor pays off in spectacular fashion, and suddenly it’s Beth who’s the real creature feature. Gillen’s writing has that signature controlled menace he brings to everything, and Gifford’s art sells the creeping (no pun intended) grotesquerie with a linework that feels uncomfortably alive. The ending, with Beth surrounded by thousands of spider-children in that rotting shack, is the kind of image that’ll stick with you longer than you’d like.
Speed Freak, from Ryan North and Derek Charm, swings in a completely different direction and somehow lands just as hard. North takes what looks like a sweet, slice-of-life story — Ron and Betty debating which superpowers they’d want — and turns it into something genuinely disturbing. Ron inherits super speed, goes full vigilante on his bullies, and then can’t stop. The horror here isn’t monster-shaped.
It’s the horror of someone who tells themselves they’re the good guy while the body count climbs and the woman he loves becomes his prisoner. Charm’s clean, almost cheerful art style makes the darkness land twice as heavy. Ron is a toxic relationship metaphor wearing a superhero costume, and North never lets you forget it.
Together, these two stories make Super Creepshow #1 exactly what an anthology horror comic should be: two wildly different flavours of dread, both with something genuinely unsettling to say. The Creep grins at you from the host segments, and you grin back, even as you feel a little gross about it.
This one’s worth every cent.
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