Basketful of Heads (Hill House Comics)

by Joe Hill, Leomacs (Illustrator), Dave Stewart (Illustrator)

Overview

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Hill asks, "With a cursed Viking axe, what can you accomplish?" and June Branch is ready to answer!

Heads will roll...

June Branch is in trouble. She's trapped on Brody Island with nowhere to run. Her boyfriend, Liam, has been kidnapped. And four bloodthirsty escaped convicts will stop at nothing to find her.

All poor June has to defend herself with is a strange Viking axe with the terrifying power to decapitate a person and leave their head still talking.

If she's going to save Liam and herself, June will have to keep a cool head...or even a whole basketful of them!

From #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill (NOS4A2, Locke & Key) comes Basketful of Heads, the first series in the smash-hit lineup of the Hill House Comics library. Featuring incredible artwork by Leomacs (Lucifer), this spine-tingling collection includes the entire seven-issue miniseries, as well as character designs and behind-the-scenes sketches.

Collects issues #1-7.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781779502971
Publisher:	DC Comics
Publication date:	09/08/2020
Pages:	184
Sales rank:	30,888
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 10.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman and Heart-Shaped Box. His second novel, Horns, was made into a feature film starring Daniel Radcliffe; his third, NOS4A2, is forthcoming as a TV series from AMC. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. His most recent work, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, was published in the autumn of 2017. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodriguez. Look for that one as a Netflix show in the not-too-distant future.

Editorial Reviews

★ 10/01/2020

After spending the summer of 1983 apart, June Branch travels to visit her boyfriend, Liam, on the small, tourist-destination island where he's spent the past few months working as an auxiliary policeman. June is hoping for a romantic, relaxing weekend before the start of the fall semester; instead, she fights for survival when Liam is taken hostage by four escaped criminals during an island-wide blackout caused by a powerful tropical storm. After defending herself with an eighth-century battle-axe from a collection of Viking artifacts in the home where she and Liam are staying, June discovers the decapitated head of her attacker still alive and capable of speech. Carrying the axe in one hand and wicker basket containing a babbling human head in the other, June sets out on a grisly odyssey to rescue the man she loves. VERDICT Hill (Full Throttle: Stories) packs this wildly entertaining debut release from his new horror imprint, Hill House, with plenty of twists and turns, as June's journey results in a dark secret coming to light and many, many more decapitations.

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