Keenspot’s December 2026 comic slate is led by Mark Spears’ Graveyard Shift #2, a horror issue that moves its central danger underground. The comic is scheduled for December 2, 2026, priced at $5.99, with Mark Spears credited as writer, artist and cover artist.
The premise is immediately unpleasant in the most deliberate way: the Graveyard Shift faces a chainsaw-wielding attacker and a werewolf in a subway turned into hunting territory. The solicitation also points beyond that initial confrontation, as the team learns it is dealing with more than two isolated monsters—and with forces that do not remain dead.
It is an efficiently claustrophobic setup. A subway is a constrained location defined by tunnels, stations and limited routes out, so the horror hook is not simply that dangerous creatures are present. It is that the characters are being pushed into a space where escape, visibility and control can all be limited. The combination of a human-scale slasher threat and a supernatural predator also gives the issue two distinctly different kinds of danger without revealing how the story resolves either one.
Graveyard Shift #2 starts the month
Mark Spears’ Graveyard Shift #2 is due first among the four listed books, arriving on December 2. Spears handles the full credited creative package: W/A/CA, shorthand for writer, artist and cover artist. In practical terms, that means the issue’s story, interior visuals and listed cover all come from the same creator.
The issue’s apparent escalation is the key element of the setup. The subway hunt includes a chainsaw maniac and a werewolf, but the description frames them as the beginning rather than the totality of the problem. That leaves the larger mystery intact: why these threats are in the subway, what other horrors may be involved, and what it means that some things refuse to stay dead.
For readers following horror stories across media, the appeal of an enclosed, hostile setting will sound familiar, even if the details here remain specific to this comic. A recent discussion of a bleak horror ending in the Resident Evil film series similarly underlines how much genre audiences can care about whether a story commits to its danger rather than treating it as a temporary inconvenience. Graveyard Shift #2’s solicitation promises an especially direct version of that pressure: the monsters are active, the battlefield is narrow, and survival is not presented as assured.
A four-week December schedule
The lineup follows a clear weekly cadence, with one $5.99 issue scheduled each Wednesday from December 2 through December 23:
- December 2: Mark Spears’ Graveyard Shift #2
- December 9: Johnny Reb’s Fear Machine #2
- December 16: Heard #2
- December 23: Robot + Girl #14
That structure makes the month easy to follow for readers interested in more than one of the series. The books do not appear to share a single storyline from the supplied details, but their sequencing gives each title its own release week rather than putting the whole group on sale at once.
A solicitation is advance information identifying an upcoming issue and its basic commercial details, such as its creative team, premise, price and scheduled date. It is useful for deciding which series to follow, but it is also intentionally selective: these summaries set the stakes and advertise the hook without spelling out outcomes, character fates or twists.
Heard #2 shifts to a wilderness survival thriller
Heard #2 is scheduled for December 16, 2026 at $5.99. Alex George Pickering writes, while Joe Bocardo and Sergio Morfe provide art; Bocardo is also credited for the cover.
The issue follows Owen Mayfield, a nonspeaking autistic boy, after a brutal attack at his family’s campsite leaves him trapped in a cabin in the Montana wilderness. His father, Stephen, is injured and attempting to find him. Owen, meanwhile, must draw on his memory and ingenuity to escape kidnappers and retrace his path.
The account of the danger is spread among several perspectives. Sheriff Josie Parsons investigates the violent scene, while Owen’s mother and sister learn that the camping trip has become a crisis. The kidnappers are armed and closing in, yet the description adds another unresolved concern: there may be a separate and more frightening presence in the woods.
That distinction matters to the issue’s thriller structure. The kidnappers establish an immediate, understandable threat with clear human intent. The hinted danger beyond them changes the terms of the story, suggesting that escaping one peril may not make the wilderness safe. The solicit does not identify that additional threat, so readers should not assume its nature from the description alone.
Fear Machine continues its terror tour
Johnny Reb’s Fear Machine #2 follows on December 9, 2026, also for $5.99. Evan K. Pozios writes the issue, Alex Sanchez and Michael Harper are credited on art, and Toby Willsmer is credited for the cover.
The series frames its second stop as another leg of a “tour of terror.” This installment centers on how far a plantation owner will go to preserve what he loves. It also promises consequences for a murderous turncoat. Those details establish a story shaped by moral compromise, violence and reckoning, although the solicitation does not identify the characters involved or provide the circumstances behind their conflict.
The “next station” language connects the book’s title to its format: each installment can function as a stop on an ongoing horror journey. It is a useful way to signal continuation for readers of the first issue while still giving #2 a discrete situation and a specific question—how far its plantation owner will go.
Robot + Girl #14 brings rival forces to the shipyard
The month ends on December 23, 2026 with Robot + Girl #14, priced at $5.99. Mike White is credited as writer, artist and cover artist.
Its conflict centers on Liv Mangione’s attempt to take control of an organization from her father. At the same time, Mari finds encrypted information on ARRA’s hard drive and intends to broadcast evidence that could destroy the Mangione syndicate. An encrypted file is information encoded so it cannot be read without the means to decode it; here, that protected data is presented as potentially decisive evidence rather than a routine plot detail.
The issue’s immediate action reaches a shipyard, where police and mob forces converge during a siege. A siege is a sustained effort to trap, pressure or overpower a defended location or group. In this case, the word signals that the contest for control has moved beyond private maneuvering into a dangerous standoff where survival itself is at stake.
Robot + Girl #14 therefore pairs two kinds of conflict: the internal struggle for authority within the Mangione organization, and an external battle over evidence that could expose the syndicate. The hard drive gives Mari a possible tool against that power structure, while the shipyard siege suggests that obtaining or releasing the information may be considerably harder than simply finding it.
What readers can take from the December slate
The four scheduled issues offer notably different forms of peril. Graveyard Shift #2 leans into supernatural action-horror in a confined transit system. Heard #2 is built around a missing child, a family emergency and the uncertainty of the wilderness. Johnny Reb’s Fear Machine #2 continues a horror journey with a historical setting and a revenge-minded edge. Robot + Girl #14 focuses on crime, power and an exposed secret amid a police-and-mob confrontation.
For collectors and regular readers, the concrete details are straightforward: each listed issue carries a $5.99 price, and the release schedule runs weekly across four December Wednesdays. For story expectations, the most substantial unknown remains Graveyard Shift #2’s expanding supernatural threat. Its subway monsters are named; the larger force behind the promise that the dead will not stay dead is not.
