In this review of Creepshow #2, we’re treated to two more creepy tales. The first concerns what happens when everyone comes together for a common goal. The second involves good luck gone horrifically bad.
Creepshow #2
Writers: Rachel Pinnelas, Thomas Krajewski, Ted Raimi
Artists: Gabriel Hernández Walta, Romulo Fajardo, Jr,
Main Cover: Lorenzo De Felici
Variant Covers: Ryan Carr, Jorge Fornés
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: October 22, 2025
This review contains spoilers
Creepshow #2‘s first story, “Keep Your Antennas Up”, is set entirely in an entomology lab. Dr. Scott and her team (mostly her team) have been working day and night to finish a paper with the hopes of securing some much-needed funding. But the team is overworked and the doctor is particularly hard-nosed about them not taking a break for anything until they have this thing approved.
One worker, Timothy, is at his desk one night, typing away at a passage concerning how ant colonies collaborate, and that there are some instances in which a worker would be sacrificed…when he passes out mid-sentence. The ants crawl into his ear from there and take over his body.
The next morning, as Dr. Scott reiterates that nobody leaves until they get this thing submitted, Timothy (or AnTimothy) rejects this. He and his fellow workers lead Dr. Scott to a different part of the building, thereby sacrificing her to the ants.
In “Par For The Course”, we’re introduced to a golfer named Jones. He has everything going for him: he never loses, he’s rich, healthy (despite a nasty smoking habit), good-looking, and has a beautiful wife. But when his new caddy Andrei is introduced, we get to see his biggest flaw: the man’s bigoted as hell.
When he makes a bad shot, he immediately blames the caddy for giving him the wrong club and smashes him over the head with it. The kid’s knocked off of a hill, and sent to the hospital. As he’s loaded into the ambulance, he points to Jones and says something in Romanian…
A few days later, everything in Jones’s life goes wrong. After a quick check on his phone, he concludes that he’s been cursed, and can either make amends for a month or kill whoever cursed him. And naturally, he chooses murder.
Over the next few weeks, his life gets back to its former glory, until he realizes the cops are following him. He’s arrested for the murder, sent to the electric chair…and that malfunctions. He ends up in the hospital under heavy paralysis (and missing an eye). It turned out that the kid’s father knew the truth of what happened to his son, and his son had been trying to beg him not to curse Jones…
The first story in Creepshow #2 effectively explores the dangers of becoming too consumed by work. The plot centers on an ant colony study, which makes it a clever twist when the team, save for Dr. Scott, is overtaken by the insects—foreshadowed by her calling them “worker ants.” The visuals are particularly effective and unsettling; the sight of ants crawling into Timothy’s ear and the scores of insects are inherently skin-crawling. This discomfort, combined with the body-horror element of someone being controlled like a puppet, makes it a highly effective and disturbing story.
The second one definitely resonated with me. Perhaps it was seeing this jerk receive some much-deserved comeuppance. Seriously, when Jones is alone with his caddy, he keeps calling him by the wrong name (“Adrien” or “Alonzo” rather than “Andrei”…in fact, one of these was used when he lied to the first responders), asks for the eight iron in the wrong language (“ocho” rather than “opt”, which shows that he doesn’t even care to try and get the right language), and then of course, how much he keeps yelling his anti-immigrant rhetoric.
The end of this segment, where one of Jones’s eyes has popped out is a nice little callback to when one of Andrei’s eyes had also popped out. Sort of a literal “eye for an eye”, and a visual reminder that Jones brought this upon himself.
I loved the color work with the first segment of Creepshow #2, particularly when the team gets their revenge on Dr. Scott. Actually, that whole scene was well done. There’s a panel where, when she gives them the slip, all of them ask where she went, with each member getting one word of the question. It shows the ant colony mindset that has fully kicked in for them.
With the second one, we’ve got some great expressions and compositions. Special mention goes to the page where Jones is sent to the chair. We see the electricity arcing all around him, his screaming facial expression, the expressions of those witnessing his execution (one dude even throwing up at the sight). And it’s telling that his final thought on that page isn’t: “Wow, did I mess up in life…”. No, it was wondering if the curse was finally broken.
Final Thoughts
Looking for some prime Halloween-season reading? Creepshow #2‘s two bite-sized stories can scratch that itch. We’ve got an excellent pair of stories for this installment, with a pair of timeless lessons.
