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I Luv Halloween #1
I Luv Halloween vol. 1
Halloween has always been and always will be about one thing...CANDY.
However, some fiendish friends excel at the tricks if they don't get the right treats. When these gremlins receive a boring apple at their first house followed by a poor selection of candy, they plan deadly revenge on the offending fruit-favoring old-timer. Join the misadventures of a group of particularly disturbing trick-or-treaters as they go about their macabre business on Halloween night.
However, some fiendish friends excel at the tricks if they don't get the right treats. When these gremlins receive a boring apple at their first house followed by a poor selection of candy, they plan deadly revenge on the offending fruit-favoring old-timer. Join the misadventures of a group of particularly disturbing trick-or-treaters as they go about their macabre business on Halloween night.
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2005
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October 20, 2025
I wouldn’t dare suggest that some of you wonderful weirdos don’t luv Halloween as much as I do, but I can confidently declare that you’d be hard-pressed to find someone who luvs it more than I do. I don’t merely celebrate. I, as much as I can manage for the entire month of October, observe Halloween like a devout Catholic observes Lent, or a devout Muslim observes Ramadan. I would not take offense to being labeled a Halloween zealot, or fundamentalist. I want the spirit of the season incorporated into everything I do for those 31 sacred days. I don’t expect anyone in my life to go along with it, just that they respect it.
Anyway, that covers the title of this mid-2000’s manga guignol, and is it ever the epitome of turn-of-the-century, edgy goth energy. Manga in categorization, ostensibly, but it has far more in common with the graphic novels of Jhonen Vasquez, both in art style and content.
It is a filthy, non-sequiter, nightmare world that fifteen-year-old me would have been obsessed with had I discovered it at Hot Topic. Corrupt, psychopathic children wander a hellscape inversion of our world, brutalizing anyone who interferes with their candy quest. It is commonplace, and our trick-or-treating troupe couldn’t be more nonchalant about all the havoc.
Finch and his demonic tooth fairy sister Moochie (introduced by way of wrenching a molar from her rotting father’s mouth as his rotting wife sits across from him at the dinner table), sets in motion this demented Devil’s Night. Finch and his degenerate friends (none of whom we ever see out of costume) receive apples at their first house. This does not bode well for their endeavor, and so disproportionately malicious measures must be taken in response.
From then on, a rampage of revenge and perversion ensues. (Hellbent on seeing his voluptuous neighbor’s boobs, one friend’s head literally explodes when—after said neighbor chases the hellions down to regain her massive discarded bra which Moochie subsequently repurposed for a slingshot used to Goliath a bully through the eye socket—she flashes the child in order to, I don’t know, spite him)?
A bedridden old woman is disemboweled, a police officer bites into a razor-riddled apple, a dimwitted bully has his teeth crudely extracted, a candy-hander-outer is savaged by a deformed dog, and a random little girl is wearing a Glassjaw Sux shirt as part of her costume.
If I weren’t so familiar with this trend of random chaos in the days when Nickelodeon greenlit a show like Invader Zim, I’d think I had a psychotic episode and this series didn’t even really exist.
Anyway, that covers the title of this mid-2000’s manga guignol, and is it ever the epitome of turn-of-the-century, edgy goth energy. Manga in categorization, ostensibly, but it has far more in common with the graphic novels of Jhonen Vasquez, both in art style and content.
It is a filthy, non-sequiter, nightmare world that fifteen-year-old me would have been obsessed with had I discovered it at Hot Topic. Corrupt, psychopathic children wander a hellscape inversion of our world, brutalizing anyone who interferes with their candy quest. It is commonplace, and our trick-or-treating troupe couldn’t be more nonchalant about all the havoc.
Finch and his demonic tooth fairy sister Moochie (introduced by way of wrenching a molar from her rotting father’s mouth as his rotting wife sits across from him at the dinner table), sets in motion this demented Devil’s Night. Finch and his degenerate friends (none of whom we ever see out of costume) receive apples at their first house. This does not bode well for their endeavor, and so disproportionately malicious measures must be taken in response.
From then on, a rampage of revenge and perversion ensues. (Hellbent on seeing his voluptuous neighbor’s boobs, one friend’s head literally explodes when—after said neighbor chases the hellions down to regain her massive discarded bra which Moochie subsequently repurposed for a slingshot used to Goliath a bully through the eye socket—she flashes the child in order to, I don’t know, spite him)?
A bedridden old woman is disemboweled, a police officer bites into a razor-riddled apple, a dimwitted bully has his teeth crudely extracted, a candy-hander-outer is savaged by a deformed dog, and a random little girl is wearing a Glassjaw Sux shirt as part of her costume.
If I weren’t so familiar with this trend of random chaos in the days when Nickelodeon greenlit a show like Invader Zim, I’d think I had a psychotic episode and this series didn’t even really exist.
October 30, 2025
My first Manga book!🎃
Weeeee! And I have no idea what I just read. lol This was like the Rugrats gone wild.
Weeeee! And I have no idea what I just read. lol This was like the Rugrats gone wild.
August 8, 2011
The Plot:
It's Halloween and a group of boys are going out trick or treating.
The Even Deeper Plot:
Because their candy is sucking they decide to try to break that curse and do bad stuff to adults.
Holy snapple de bapples!!
How do I explain this book?
Think of every horror movie you've ever seen.
Now think of every horror movie cliquey
Now throw in some Ed, Edd, and Eddy type kids
Now take some acid....
THAT!! Is what this book is like..
ZOMG!
Ok... so while this book is hilarious and gory and full of 'wtf' moments (A boy dressed up as a tiger in the sink watching a neighbor and her big boobles while he......) it is kinda sick, disturbing, and totally a cool guilty pleasure.
But I do NOT want any kids reading this book!!
But there are kids on the cover!!
Yes yes... there are kids on the cover but this is STRICTLY an OLDER teen or an GOWN UP book. I think my 14 year old would be ok reading this but since I read it it now makes me squeemish to let him read it.
Its not because of the gore... that's fine... its because of what the boys talk about and do. I know I know... that's older boy stuff but e-gads!! It makes me shudder to think of him UNDERSTANDING those kinds of jokes. ACKS!
All in all... good guilty pleasure book but keep this one away from the kids.
It's Halloween and a group of boys are going out trick or treating.
The Even Deeper Plot:
Because their candy is sucking they decide to try to break that curse and do bad stuff to adults.
Holy snapple de bapples!!
How do I explain this book?
Think of every horror movie you've ever seen.
Now think of every horror movie cliquey
Now throw in some Ed, Edd, and Eddy type kids
Now take some acid....
THAT!! Is what this book is like..
ZOMG!
Ok... so while this book is hilarious and gory and full of 'wtf' moments (A boy dressed up as a tiger in the sink watching a neighbor and her big boobles while he......) it is kinda sick, disturbing, and totally a cool guilty pleasure.
But I do NOT want any kids reading this book!!
But there are kids on the cover!!
Yes yes... there are kids on the cover but this is STRICTLY an OLDER teen or an GOWN UP book. I think my 14 year old would be ok reading this but since I read it it now makes me squeemish to let him read it.
Its not because of the gore... that's fine... its because of what the boys talk about and do. I know I know... that's older boy stuff but e-gads!! It makes me shudder to think of him UNDERSTANDING those kinds of jokes. ACKS!
All in all... good guilty pleasure book but keep this one away from the kids.
November 10, 2019
A ton of fun and perfect for the Halloween season. I really enjoyed the characters, and their banter and antics definitely made me chuckle.
A couple of times I was confused as to what order to read the speech bubbles and ended up having to read some panels a couple of times but it wasn't a big deal.
I'll definitely keep an eye out for the other two volumes in the series.
A couple of times I was confused as to what order to read the speech bubbles and ended up having to read some panels a couple of times but it wasn't a big deal.
I'll definitely keep an eye out for the other two volumes in the series.
October 16, 2025
I can appreciate a morbid tale. I actually enjoy the macabre in dark environments. Even occultic topics can be explored but it seems to work best when there is the anticipation of hope. The premise of this story caught my attention but the execution was more shock-action in the name of filth than it was wit and macabre storytelling. In I Luv Halloween, the art by Benjamin Roman is good, highly cartoonish, but enjoyable, yet in some actions scenes, the imagery gets muddled. Keith Giffen's story gets straight into the morbid atmosphere with Finch and Moochie's home life (see Chapter breakdown below). Finch and his friends will ramp up the crude language and the one-step-too-far violent acts quite quickly but you can tell from the interactions of the other community members that the landscape is debauchery and bullying. For me, I don't get the appeal for putting children into this kind of set up but I know many people who find creepy children at Halloween to be a sinister feeling that makes it a good story for them. Again, in looking at the descriptions for this and the next two volumes, I was intrigued, and I anticipated a dark tale but what I got veered in and out of crude occultic wackiness (awkward at best) to darkly morbid wittiness (enjoyable). Honestly, I can get with the violence and even an air of evil but the sex talk among little kids is tacky and not holding up well in 2022. In addition, the dialogue gets a little hard to keep up with. Are there two different Spike characters?
Chapter One: Finch
The skull-masked Finch and his tooth-faery-dressed little sister, Moochie, are heading out for trick-or-treating. Mom and dad don't care much because Finch and his crew, Pig-Pig, Mr. Kitty, and Devil Lad, seem to hold reverence for Halloween, with a superstitious zeal that trivial things (like fruit instead of candy) are premonitions of a good night of treats, or a bad night of tricks. Even so much so, that Mr. Kitty
Chapter Two: Pig-Pig
To alter the bad ju-ju of bad treats, the crew resolve to get their fruit-giving neighbor out of the mix by any means necessary (like . The crew also find a crude observance of their neighbor's body while Moochie .
Chapter Three: Bubbles & Squeak
The bullies have an encounter with little Moochie and her new rock-slinger. Moochie's crazy dog, Mush, is introduced alongside Mr. Kitty's little brother, Spike.
Chapter Four: Li'l Bith
Squeak resolves to dish out some heavy payback to the tooth fairy while Mush runs a bloody rampage through the neighborhood. Finch and the crew are being tailed by a nefarious teen couple who want something from Moochie. And we, as the readers are "treated" to more sex talk and filth.
Chapter Five: Mush
Things come to a head when all parties start to converge on the same spot. More questions arise with no answers revealed:
Chapter One: Finch
The skull-masked Finch and his tooth-faery-dressed little sister, Moochie, are heading out for trick-or-treating. Mom and dad don't care much because Finch and his crew, Pig-Pig, Mr. Kitty, and Devil Lad, seem to hold reverence for Halloween, with a superstitious zeal that trivial things (like fruit instead of candy) are premonitions of a good night of treats, or a bad night of tricks. Even so much so, that Mr. Kitty
Chapter Two: Pig-Pig
To alter the bad ju-ju of bad treats, the crew resolve to get their fruit-giving neighbor out of the mix by any means necessary (like . The crew also find a crude observance of their neighbor's body while Moochie .
Chapter Three: Bubbles & Squeak
The bullies have an encounter with little Moochie and her new rock-slinger. Moochie's crazy dog, Mush, is introduced alongside Mr. Kitty's little brother, Spike.
Chapter Four: Li'l Bith
Squeak resolves to dish out some heavy payback to the tooth fairy while Mush runs a bloody rampage through the neighborhood. Finch and the crew are being tailed by a nefarious teen couple who want something from Moochie. And we, as the readers are "treated" to more sex talk and filth.
Chapter Five: Mush
Things come to a head when all parties start to converge on the same spot. More questions arise with no answers revealed:
August 17, 2022
Well that was one wild way to spend Halloween lol.
This was like a slice of life with a mix of horror (slice of horror? Lol) it was over the top, ridiculous, but it was fun.
Sadly I wasn’t a huge fan of the artstyle aside from the designs of the main group. There’s three volumes but I kinda feel like this works as a one shot, will have to give the rest a shot another time.
This was like a slice of life with a mix of horror (slice of horror? Lol) it was over the top, ridiculous, but it was fun.
Sadly I wasn’t a huge fan of the artstyle aside from the designs of the main group. There’s three volumes but I kinda feel like this works as a one shot, will have to give the rest a shot another time.
Did not finish
May 24, 2022DNFd at page 28
I don't know if I've DNFd a manga before, but I have no idea what's going on in this. Like I do, but idk I guess it's a variant on slice of life literary fiction type books which are not my thing. Couldn't do it.
I don't know if I've DNFd a manga before, but I have no idea what's going on in this. Like I do, but idk I guess it's a variant on slice of life literary fiction type books which are not my thing. Couldn't do it.
February 10, 2018
This gave me major Invader Zim vibes with the art style and dark content, however I found the format hard to follow and confusing.
January 29, 2017
***SOME MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD***
I Luv Halloween is a disturbing romp about kids who feel the need to get murderous revenge for getting gypped on Halloween night. The group consists of four boys (one of who only shows up in town on Halloween) and a little sister who likes to pull people's teeth and make a necklace out of them, and a dog missing half his face.
The flow of the story can be a little jumbled up at times, but the art style is great and doesn't hold back or apologize for the gore. There are also some other mature themes at work here besides violence and language, but they don't really take away from the story. This comic crosses a line on several occasions, but it hasn't stopped me from wanting to read the remaining volumes.
If you like demented stories with unexpected head explosions and a woman gutted with a pair of dentures, then this is the comic for you.
I Luv Halloween is a disturbing romp about kids who feel the need to get murderous revenge for getting gypped on Halloween night. The group consists of four boys (one of who only shows up in town on Halloween) and a little sister who likes to pull people's teeth and make a necklace out of them, and a dog missing half his face.
The flow of the story can be a little jumbled up at times, but the art style is great and doesn't hold back or apologize for the gore. There are also some other mature themes at work here besides violence and language, but they don't really take away from the story. This comic crosses a line on several occasions, but it hasn't stopped me from wanting to read the remaining volumes.
If you like demented stories with unexpected head explosions and a woman gutted with a pair of dentures, then this is the comic for you.
January 22, 2018
Meh...
I was expecting much more from this one but alas it didn't manage to meet my expectations. The dialogue is mostly single word "sentence" and the plot and storyline was extremely simplistic. Without any high stakes, or anything important going on.
The only positive thing about it, is the artwork.
I was expecting much more from this one but alas it didn't manage to meet my expectations. The dialogue is mostly single word "sentence" and the plot and storyline was extremely simplistic. Without any high stakes, or anything important going on.
The only positive thing about it, is the artwork.
November 5, 2009
I didn't enjoy reading this manga since the dialogue between characters were mostly one-word/liner and moot. Guess the style and plot didn't appeal to me.
October 24, 2011
too weird and creepy.
October 10, 2024
A Halloween themed manga written by Keith Giffen. I couldn't pass it up. And yet like a driver who picks up the hitchhiker from Hell, I kinda wish that I had kept on driving.
I Luv Halloween has got to be the must inappropriate, goriest romp starring kids that I have ever read. Imagine the movie Gummo, if it was set during Halloween. (I really want to compare this with the film Kids. However, there's nowhere as much animal murder and cruelty in that controversial film compared to Gummo.)
The book is about a group of 4 boys as they go trick-or-treating. After getting apples at their first couple of houses, the boys decide to break the curse by putting razor blades in one of the fruits and unleash the unmitigated fury of the law on one of their stingy neighbors. Meanwhile, one of the boy's sisters has broken free from the group and has begun a reign of unintentional terror, killing the neighborhood bully, bludgeoning a cheerleader and her boyfriend and much, much more unspeakable acts.
If I thought Griffen was trying to do a straight out horror story on par with Children of the Corn, I'd probably not feel like I need to take a shower just for writing this review. But the kids in the book do most of their gruesome acts with a sense of innocence. It's almost like the worst Murphy's law bad luck of all time follow these kids and they just go through life not understanding just how destructive they are. Remember how Steve Urkel would ask 'did I do that?', whenever something went wrong? Well, these kids, for the most part, don't even know that they are doing terrible things. Well, the sister might. There's definitely something not quite right about her...
The artwork is by Benjamin Roman. At the time this book was published, in 2005, he was a relative newcomer with this being his very first professionally published work. His art style is extremely exaggerated. Roman would fit in quite well at MAD Magazine. I wonder what became of him...
This one isn't a keeper for me. I wasn't a huge fan of it. There's a lot going on that I'm not even sure happened or not as several of kids are not very reliable narrators. And yet, there's 2 more volumes and I just need to find out what is true and what is the fever dreams of a group of horny preteens. Plus I just need to know what is wrong with the sister. She just not quite right in the head.
Not the coming of age tale you'd feel comfortable sharing with your kids or grand kids. I fact, if you didn't feel uncomfortable after reading this book I'd think something might be wrong with you...
I Luv Halloween has got to be the must inappropriate, goriest romp starring kids that I have ever read. Imagine the movie Gummo, if it was set during Halloween. (I really want to compare this with the film Kids. However, there's nowhere as much animal murder and cruelty in that controversial film compared to Gummo.)
The book is about a group of 4 boys as they go trick-or-treating. After getting apples at their first couple of houses, the boys decide to break the curse by putting razor blades in one of the fruits and unleash the unmitigated fury of the law on one of their stingy neighbors. Meanwhile, one of the boy's sisters has broken free from the group and has begun a reign of unintentional terror, killing the neighborhood bully, bludgeoning a cheerleader and her boyfriend and much, much more unspeakable acts.
If I thought Griffen was trying to do a straight out horror story on par with Children of the Corn, I'd probably not feel like I need to take a shower just for writing this review. But the kids in the book do most of their gruesome acts with a sense of innocence. It's almost like the worst Murphy's law bad luck of all time follow these kids and they just go through life not understanding just how destructive they are. Remember how Steve Urkel would ask 'did I do that?', whenever something went wrong? Well, these kids, for the most part, don't even know that they are doing terrible things. Well, the sister might. There's definitely something not quite right about her...
The artwork is by Benjamin Roman. At the time this book was published, in 2005, he was a relative newcomer with this being his very first professionally published work. His art style is extremely exaggerated. Roman would fit in quite well at MAD Magazine. I wonder what became of him...
This one isn't a keeper for me. I wasn't a huge fan of it. There's a lot going on that I'm not even sure happened or not as several of kids are not very reliable narrators. And yet, there's 2 more volumes and I just need to find out what is true and what is the fever dreams of a group of horny preteens. Plus I just need to know what is wrong with the sister. She just not quite right in the head.
Not the coming of age tale you'd feel comfortable sharing with your kids or grand kids. I fact, if you didn't feel uncomfortable after reading this book I'd think something might be wrong with you...
November 13, 2022
Never give a trick-or-treater fruit.
1. It'll mess up their chances at good candy by giving them a curse, and 2. Because there's a good chance they'll try to poison you, cut you, and/or otherwise get back at you to break said curse. That is how I love Halloween began. Along with a psychopathic 5 year old-ish tooth fairy stealing her dead parents teeth-- excuse me, molars.
Yes, this is one messed story, and I loved it! The whole vibe from the beginning was like watching a horror movie unfold page by page. Please note, this is not for the faint of heart nor for the squeamish, there is a lot of gore, psychotic children, head explosions, and (nothing explicit was shown, but) there is a older woman nicknamed "nips," I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what that means.
A little bit of everything that makes a really good, or cringy, horror movie, but in book format. And I'll be honest, I liked it, but by the end a major twist happen and making everything make sense in a twisted way, earning an extra star, (upping it from 3 to 4 stars.) The art was cartoonish for a manga in my opinion, but it was also perfect, it added an extra layer of heebie-jeebies to the gore and horror making it all the more surreal.
Was I weirded out by this manga? Yes, yes I was. Do I want to go on to read the next 2 volumes? Also yes, yes I do. I highly recommend this to any horror aficionado. Also if you like the online manga Pumpkin Night 1, I definitely recommend you check this series out.
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1. It'll mess up their chances at good candy by giving them a curse, and 2. Because there's a good chance they'll try to poison you, cut you, and/or otherwise get back at you to break said curse. That is how I love Halloween began. Along with a psychopathic 5 year old-ish tooth fairy stealing her dead parents teeth-- excuse me, molars.
Yes, this is one messed story, and I loved it! The whole vibe from the beginning was like watching a horror movie unfold page by page. Please note, this is not for the faint of heart nor for the squeamish, there is a lot of gore, psychotic children, head explosions, and (nothing explicit was shown, but) there is a older woman nicknamed "nips," I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what that means.
A little bit of everything that makes a really good, or cringy, horror movie, but in book format. And I'll be honest, I liked it, but by the end a major twist happen and making everything make sense in a twisted way, earning an extra star, (upping it from 3 to 4 stars.) The art was cartoonish for a manga in my opinion, but it was also perfect, it added an extra layer of heebie-jeebies to the gore and horror making it all the more surreal.
Was I weirded out by this manga? Yes, yes I was. Do I want to go on to read the next 2 volumes? Also yes, yes I do. I highly recommend this to any horror aficionado. Also if you like the online manga Pumpkin Night 1, I definitely recommend you check this series out.
Check out my bookstagram! @Witchy_Bookish_Otaku
November 18, 2018
The art definitely reminded me of Invader Zim, but the story itself has a JTHM vibe to it.
It gets very bloody and graphic halfway through, the first half is just the buildup.
A bunch of friends [and one baby sister] are going out to trick or treat, seems like they get some bad juju and the candy they get after that is cursed to all be the same weird sort of but not really candy thing. They try to break the curse of bad candy, and in the process a lot of bodily damage happens to all the background characters.
It feels like one of those B movies that are just about the gore and blood and carnage that goes down, without having an actual plot [weak, sort of there, if you really squint, kind of plot]. Now, as a movie, it would probably get a much higher rating, I'm a fan of some really dumb B movies, ok, this is definitely up my alley. Not too much of a higher rating, the kids bickered a LOT, for most of the book, and frankly that made it much less enjoyable
But as a book, the flow of pages and the panels is a little difficult to follow, because of how the art is drawn it sometimes takes my eyes a moment to recognize what they're looking at, and I just didn't have as much fun reading it as I would have watching it.
There's a second volume; it's one year later, we're still going trick or treating, except now there's zombies everywhere.
Do I recommend them, sort of, only if you're into JTHM, like you gotta be down for that kind of style and gorey story to be into this one, but be warned it's not gunna be as good as JTHM.
It gets very bloody and graphic halfway through, the first half is just the buildup.
A bunch of friends [and one baby sister] are going out to trick or treat, seems like they get some bad juju and the candy they get after that is cursed to all be the same weird sort of but not really candy thing. They try to break the curse of bad candy, and in the process a lot of bodily damage happens to all the background characters.
It feels like one of those B movies that are just about the gore and blood and carnage that goes down, without having an actual plot [weak, sort of there, if you really squint, kind of plot]. Now, as a movie, it would probably get a much higher rating, I'm a fan of some really dumb B movies, ok, this is definitely up my alley. Not too much of a higher rating, the kids bickered a LOT, for most of the book, and frankly that made it much less enjoyable
But as a book, the flow of pages and the panels is a little difficult to follow, because of how the art is drawn it sometimes takes my eyes a moment to recognize what they're looking at, and I just didn't have as much fun reading it as I would have watching it.
There's a second volume; it's one year later, we're still going trick or treating, except now there's zombies everywhere.
Do I recommend them, sort of, only if you're into JTHM, like you gotta be down for that kind of style and gorey story to be into this one, but be warned it's not gunna be as good as JTHM.
March 5, 2024
This book has a BIG speech balloon problem. There's no consistent order, so sometimes it's whichever balloon is higher goes first (regardless of left/right orientation), and sometimes it's left/right, regardless of height.
There's very little more frustrating in reading comics than reading a speech balloon, being a little confused, then reading the next speech balloon, realizing you read them in the wrong order, and then repeating that process throughout the entire book.
I have my preferences for speech balloon order, but I can hang with anything so long as it's pretty consistent. So you can either engage in the mysterious art of making it super intuitive, which is a mastery of the form, OR you can make it super consistent, which creates the same effect, albeit while making some sacrifices in the art here and there.
Which is, I think, what was going on with this book: they had a SUPER talented artist with an interesting style, and that overrode all other considerations for the book. I kind of get it, but at the same time, each panel of this book was like my own personal Memento moment where I was reconstructing the story's order all the time, so the art was awesome, but it felt like it was a beautiful mural on the side of a porta potty.
There's very little more frustrating in reading comics than reading a speech balloon, being a little confused, then reading the next speech balloon, realizing you read them in the wrong order, and then repeating that process throughout the entire book.
I have my preferences for speech balloon order, but I can hang with anything so long as it's pretty consistent. So you can either engage in the mysterious art of making it super intuitive, which is a mastery of the form, OR you can make it super consistent, which creates the same effect, albeit while making some sacrifices in the art here and there.
Which is, I think, what was going on with this book: they had a SUPER talented artist with an interesting style, and that overrode all other considerations for the book. I kind of get it, but at the same time, each panel of this book was like my own personal Memento moment where I was reconstructing the story's order all the time, so the art was awesome, but it felt like it was a beautiful mural on the side of a porta potty.
June 9, 2023
1 star for story 5 stars for art so I split the difference and gave it 3 stars.
I honestly need more context for this book, I was completely lost from page one.
This book starts with what seems like a brother and sister preparing for Halloween to meet up with a small group of misfit friends. I say what seems like because while it is implied it's not fully confirmed. The night turns into chaos full of murder and mayhem mostly told through the illustrations of Benjamin Roman.
The writing in this book is extremely subpar and the only saving grace is the creative and extremely clean illustrations. If not for the artwork it would have been a 1 star. I plan on finishing the series and I am hopeful to actually find a back story in the next two volumes.
I honestly need more context for this book, I was completely lost from page one.
This book starts with what seems like a brother and sister preparing for Halloween to meet up with a small group of misfit friends. I say what seems like because while it is implied it's not fully confirmed. The night turns into chaos full of murder and mayhem mostly told through the illustrations of Benjamin Roman.
The writing in this book is extremely subpar and the only saving grace is the creative and extremely clean illustrations. If not for the artwork it would have been a 1 star. I plan on finishing the series and I am hopeful to actually find a back story in the next two volumes.
October 26, 2020
I absolutely Love Halloween, so the title drew me in and the fact that I am on a Graphic novel kick. Well it didn't disappoint! This book was a funny fuc**d tale of Trick or Treating gone so right yet so wrong. Zombies, deranged sister Tooth Fairies, murder, Razor blades in apples, this shit is nuts! I got the second one because I have so many questions! Read if you love Halloween and weird shit!
June 15, 2025
Children of the Candy Corn
This reads like the artist from Invader Zim did an R-rated version of the Halloween town from the Nightmare Before Christmas with a blue humor dash of the Addams Family.
Children have a feral night of trick or treating and mayhem. There's curses, zombies, murder, and peeping. A borderline surreal dark comedy. I wasn't sure whether to go two or three stars, as it wasn't quite my cup of tea, but it kept my attention to the end, so I'll go three.
This reads like the artist from Invader Zim did an R-rated version of the Halloween town from the Nightmare Before Christmas with a blue humor dash of the Addams Family.
Children have a feral night of trick or treating and mayhem. There's curses, zombies, murder, and peeping. A borderline surreal dark comedy. I wasn't sure whether to go two or three stars, as it wasn't quite my cup of tea, but it kept my attention to the end, so I'll go three.
January 11, 2022
This is a very fun dark graphic novel. I love how the story and art really builds up the sense of a town stuck in a perpetual Halloween where the kids have gone wild and are so casually evil. I’d like to read the rest of the series someday.
October 27, 2022
I loved this book so much. If you haven't been able to read it you must and at Halloween would be better. I wish Mr Roman & Mr Giffen would put out more stories. This one is so twisted it a must read.🧡🖤🪦☠️👻💀⚰️
October 6, 2017
Well it's October so I figured why not? It's okay. The art is unique, and gory. It wouldn't have hurt if it had more of a story, or more backstory on the characters.
September 9, 2018
This story is twisted. There is plenty of gore, but not enough to make you sick. I don't recommend this for anyone with the fear of going to the dentist.
February 17, 2019
Whoa, gross and disgusting, to the max. Yet moments of humor?
April 3, 2020
Macabre Halloween story where candy is the only goal.
Kids are the creepiest little f*cks sometimes.
I need the rest of the series.
Kids are the creepiest little f*cks sometimes.
I need the rest of the series.
April 22, 2020
Very strange and violent, without much to redeem it. There is a bit of mystery, plus I bought the whole series, so I will read the rest just to see.
September 12, 2020
I hated everything about this
October 16, 2020
I decided to embrace the Halloween spirit by reading this. I “luv” the artwork by Benjamin Roman and I found the story to be funny and entertaining. Bravo.
October 27, 2020
Fun but honestly kind of confusing.
October 31, 2023
What did I just read!?!
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