From Nightmare to Page: Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy #1
Prepare to hop out of your seats with this scary in-depth look at the making of the Exquisite Corpses spinoff series, coming from Tiny Onion & Image Comics
Prepare to hop out of your seat from fear with a scary in-depth look at the process of making Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy #1, spinning out of the bestselling original horror comic book series Exquisite Corpses co-created by James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh. Tynion's production house Tiny Onion and Image Comics are teaming up to bring back everyone's favorite bunny mascot Rascal Randy, one of the favorite killers from Season One, in a new five-issue limited series, hitting shelves this July. The FOC for issue #1 is this upcoming Monday, June 15.
Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy is crafted by several returning Corpse Crew creators that worked on Exquisite Corpses with the exciting addition of fan-favorite artist Dylan Burnett (Cosmic Ghost Rider, Arcade Kings). The series is written by Tyler Boss (Universal Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera, You'll Do Bad Things), colored by Eisner Award winner Jordie Bellaire (The Nice House on the Lake) and lettered by the brilliant Becca Carey (Absolute Wonder Woman).
In Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy, the sleepy little town of Aurora Springs, NY, has exactly one claim to fame: it's the birthplace of Rascal Randy. Not the man in the suit—that man has never mattered. He was no one until he put the mascot head on for the first time… not until he felt the life leave someone's body with his thickly furred gloves wrapped around them.
No, Aurora Springs is the birthplace of Rascal Randy the rabbit, who, once upon a time, was poised to become the greatest animated character this country had ever seen—until greed and tragedy changed his trajectory forever. Witness the events before season one of Exquisite Corpses that made Rascal Randy New Jersey's selection for America's deadliest game. When chaos comes hopping into town, the secret sordid history of Rascal Randy will finally be revealed.
In this selection of preview pages, we follow in the steps of one of the lead characters, exploring in the dark, only to stumble upon the terrifying Rascal Randy! With the lights up, we see that it's just his mascot suit and a whole shrine has been built in honor of the famous character.
Artist Burnett takes us through his process of building the art for this sequence, from his sketches to his final inks.
The launch issue of Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy will also feature highly collectible covers by top-tier artists such as Javier Pulido (Amazing Spider-Man, She-Hulk), Riley Rossmo (The Moon is Following Us), Brett Bean (D'orc, Dungeon Crawler Carl: Crocodile), and series artist Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein). Walsh's variant will come polybagged with a collectible trading card tied to the successful Kickstarter hit Exquisite Corpses: The Game, which he co-created with the Tiny Onion team; the game will be available to back on Kickstarter until this Saturday and so far has been over 400% funded.
Along with Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy, two other new spinoff limited series (Exquisite Corpses: Fox Mask Killer and Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman) are launching soon, along with an anthology one-shot (Exquisite Corpses: Book of the Dead) in addition to the upcoming second season, the feature film adaptation, and the tabletop card game. Rascal Randy himself even made a special appearance with the Tiny Onion team at Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) in his mascot suit, doing photo ops with fans to lovingly strangle them with his weapon of choice: his hands.
Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy will be the first series to spin off from the world after the conclusion of Exquisite Corpses Season One. Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 8:
Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
