In this review of Corpse Knight #6, the Knight’s service comes to an end.
Corpse Knight #6
Writer: Michael Chaves
Art and Main Cover: Matthew Roberts
Variant Covers: Jorge Corona, Tonči Zonjić, Nimit Malavia, Ito
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: September 23, 2026
This review contains spoilers
After an opening scene depicting Foy’s parents months before her birth, wherein they discussed what to name her and expressed their hopes for her future, Corpse Knight #6 goes back to the story’s present time. Foy has successfully performed necromancy, with both her father and the one dead child in Gilles’ demented little playroom.
Joan is running for her life and calling for the revived corpse to be killed (again), as Foy is given the keys. Her father’s killing everyone that’s sent after him, and Gilles reunites with Joan. As he goes to get her to safety, however, the pair are greeted by a small army of angry, vengeful children.
They attack him, he prepares to kill Foy, only for her dad to catch up to him. After a brief scuffle, Gilles briefly gains the upper hand, before Foy stabs him. Her father gets in the finishing blow, and Joan is ready to kill him for it. But then Foy catches her off-guard, demanding the miracle she’d been promised.
Some time later, Foy tells her father that he’s her miracle, and she releases him from her service. He briefly takes on his old living appearance, embraces her one last time, and moves on.
Analysis
Every so often, a story involving the revived dead will come along and smash a reader right in their emotions. This is one of them, as I definitely found myself tearing up by the end of it. It’s not simply a story about a guy coming back from the dead and laying waste to anyone that crosses him. Overall, it’s about how love can transcend death, and a young girl coming into her own power, and there’s just something so beautiful about that.
Another beautiful part of the story, here? Seeing Gilles get some sort of comeuppance. It’s noted that he was, in real life, an admitted serial killer with a rather high body count to his name. Seeing him ultimately get taken down by the father of a girl he especially wanted dead was quite satisfying to see.
I also thought it was pretty great to see scenes with her father’s living form bookending this issue, first when both he and her mother were actually alive, considering what sort of future she might be able to have. And then again when Foy comes to terms with the fact that yes, he’s dead, he’s done so much for her in her young life, and that he deserves to be at peace. The look on his face is just pure relief: relief that his girl is safe, now, and may actually be able to handle herself, now. It was clear that before his death, he was living for her, and then living for her again post-resurrection.
Given that she’s learned of her own abilities with magic, and she’s got a sword, Foy’s definitely got a better chance at fending for herself than other children her age. Over the course of this whole story, she’s gone through some, quite frankly, harrowing stuff. At times, her undead dad bailed her out, but others, she got herself out of trouble. The biggest example would have to be when she intentionally tapped into her necromantic abilities to get the keys. The only real input she got from anyone else was the other children calling her a witch as they watched her with both amazement and a tiny bit of fear.
Being able to revive corpses as a young, relatively unexperienced witch can’t be an easy task, and she was already managing to do this without really honing her abilities. Once she builds those up, who knows how strong she could be?
The artwork, as always, was done quite well. A few standout moments for me: that beginning flashback and the end. Those are rendered with some beautiful, soft colors that definitely help to push the love in Foy’s family. Then the backgrounds get brighter and harsher during the final face-off with Gilles, pushing the intensity of the scene.
Final Thoughts
In it’s sixth and final issue, Corpse Knight wraps up the tale of Foy and her undead father in a beautiful, cathartic way.
