MANIAC OF NEW YORK, VOL 2: THE BRONX IS BURNING

The bloody saga of Maniac Harry continues!

After the tragedy of The Death Train, Detective Zelda Pettibone and mayoral aide Gina Greene have lost the trail of the Maniac — and the support of the city. Copycats are springing up, tensions are high and traffic is a nightmare. So, what happens when your favorite unstoppable, mindless killer resurfaces in a Bronx high school? Can Zelda and Gina get there before Maniac Harry adds to his body count? Will the students tear their attention away from their phones long enough to notice there’s a monster in the halls?

Writer Elliott Kalan and artist Andrea Mutti return for the next chapter of the hit horror-satire that’s somehow even scarier than the world we actually live in!

Writer Elliott Kalan is an Emmy Award-winning writer from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Mystery Science Theater 3000

Series artist and co-creator Andrea Mutti is perhaps best known for his work on DC's Hellblazer

Volume 1 of MANIAC OF NEW YORK was one of AfterShock's best-selling titles of 2021.

As with the first volume, volume two taps into the long-standing, multi-generational appeal of the "slasher" sub-genre of horror films and graphic novels – from Friday the 13th to Nightmare on Elm Street to Halloween to I Know What You Did Last Summer, even all the way back to Psycho.

According to the writer, “The original inspiration for the series was my extreme adolescent disappointment with Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, which promised a citywide metropolitan bloodbath and delivered a couple shots of Jason walking through Times Square in a bad mood.”

The Bronx is Burning sees Maniac Harry re-emerging further uptown, at a private school not too far from Yankee Stadium.

Splatters of political satire and social commentary throughout

Writer Elliott Kalan is an Emmy Award-winning writer from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and Mystery Science Theater 3000

Series artist and co-creator Andrea Mutti is perhaps best known for his work on DC's Hellblazer