J. Holtham is teaming up with Michael Lee Harris to create The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters. This fourth installment in The Horizon Experiment series of one-shots will hit shelves this December; the series centers on original protagonists from marginalized backgrounds set in a popular genre, led by Eisner and Harvey Award-winning The Good Asian and Infidel creator Pornsak Pichetshote.

Marking Holtham’s first creator-owned comic and Harris’s first Image Comics project, The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters is like Evil Dead but for blerds, a love letter to Sam Raimi and Edgar Wright set to a Wu-Tang soundtrack. Fans of Bitter Root and Chew will enjoy this meta horror comedy full of quips and gore. Also featuring dynamic lettering by Micah Myers, Motherfu*kin’ Monsters is co-edited by Pichetshote and award-winning editor Will Dennis (SOMNA: A Bedtime Story, Gideon Falls).

In Motherfu*kin’ Monsters, a nerdy Black kid from Brooklyn and his friends stumble upon demon-worshipping frat assholes trying to take over the world. What ensues is colorful chaos as “sorta” hero JJ Henry and his fam fight for their motherfu*kin’ survival and to stop this Grimoire-based evil from being unleashed. In this story, instead of having the Black characters be sidekicks and have quick deaths, as has often been the case in horror, Holtham and Harris put them in the center.

The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin’ Monsters #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, December 18:

• Cover A by Michael Lee Harris – Lunar code 1024IM307
• Cover B by Tula Lotay (connecting) – Lunar code 1024IM308
• Cover C by Tula Lotay (1:25 foil incentive, connecting) – Lunar code 1024IM309
• Cover D (blank sketch cover) – Lunar code 1024IM310