Anthology series will serve as publisher’s flagship horror title
Things are about to get spooky in the Summit Universe. As first announced in Fangoria, horror’s most preeminent news outlet, the rising indie publisher is debuting Testaments of Terror this summer. Evoking inspiration from the anthology aspect of select Pre-Code horror titles, each issue of Testaments of Terror will feature a regular-sized one-shot and at least one separate backup story.
Written by Adam Barnhardt and drawn by David Hutajulu, Testaments of Terror #1 will showcase Bloodwake: Breaking the Abyss and will launch just as summer really gets started in early July. Underwater royalty, Bloodwake is a character exiled from his homeland, resulting in a summer camp slasher the sea creature finds himself in the midst of.
“Thalassophobia is arguably my biggest phobia, and although I didn’t happen to write this in the middle of a lake or the ocean, writing Bloodwake has stoked more than enough panic attacks for my psyche,” Barnhardt said of the title.
“I’ve always been drawn to the intersection of superheroes and gore,” Hutajulu added. “With Bloodwake I got the chance to explore something that I always wanted to do before. Readers can expect a bloody, high-octane ride that stays with them long after they close the book.”
Testaments of Terror #2 will then launch late summer and feature a story called Harrow: Feast in the Furrow, written by Barnhardt with art by Michel Abstracto. A scarecrow possessed by the spirit of an early Midwestern settler, Feast in the Furrow evokes the stickiness of humid late summer days through a sweaty murder mystery the eponymous anti-hero finds himself embroiled in. The lead suspect? A murder of crows who’ve seemingly managed to form a human body and force it to do their bidding.
“Within the Summit Universe, we take the idea of crows being afraid of scarecrows to the extreme,” Barnhardt added of the Harrow story. “Feast in the Furrow is very much a combination of monstrous body horror and by way of those miserable dog days of summer, and Michel nails the tone through the artwork.”
As with all other releases from Summit Comics, Testaments of Terror will first fund through Kickstarter.
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Summit Comics, LLC is a collective owned by nearly 20 creatives including Travis Gibb (Granite State Punk, Cthulhu Invades), CJ Hudson (Granite, Interstellar Dust), Devin Arscott (Noir, Magni the Mighty), Adam Barnhardt (SH*TSHOW, Moonspawn), Marcus Jimenez (Techoknights, Knight From Hell),  Sarah Cooke (Miraculous, No Spell Last Forever). Eric Palicki (Guardians of Infinity, Black’s Myth), J. Michael Miller (Kid Cretaceous, The Healer’s Blade), Elias Gambit Melendez (Holiday Spirits, Voodoo Nations) Nate Schachter (The CloakRoom), Daniel Kalban (American Dreams, Knightwrath), Brian Wolf (Upheaval), Benjamin Morse (We Are Scarlet Twilight), Ignacio Di Meglio (Cthulhu Invades Oz), Sebastian Piccione (Cat. 5, Heroic Tales), Pete Collins (The Bardic Verses) plus creators like Matthew Summo (Nightmare Theater, The Bardic Verses) Marlon Souza (The Haunting of Grimley Manor), Rom Silva (Magnus), Cammry Lapka (Death Nell) and letterer extraordinaire Jerome Gagnon.
