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I did a comics swap by mail with Colin Panetta recently, and received the first two issues of Dead Man Holiday, his wigged-out sci-fi-mysterious-creeping-horror title.

Here's a mysterious creeping moment from the first issue:



Now, horror is most definitely NOT my thing, but I found Dead Man Holiday to be more intriguing than anything. It didn't hurt that there's no graphic bloodletting in these first issues. The first issue in particular was like reading a puzzle with only a fraction of the pieces available (in a good way!), and I found myself lingering with the introductory pages, pleasantly trying to parse what was going on. Both issues are available in their entirety for a free online read, so I encourage you to give them a try.

But I warn you, if you just skim you'll miss out, so you should probably buy a copy.

On the first page of my copy, Colin drew my rabbit character Jack and the Old Pocket Mouse from my Grasshopper Mouse mini-comic dressed up like his skeleton character:



I reciprocated by doing a version of his mysterious creeping horror. It reminded me of a moth, so I went all out with the moth thing: