In this review of Creepshow #5, we close out volume 4 with a tale of mad science and a story of isolation.
Creepshow #5
Writers: Joshua Williamson, Tradd Moore
Artists: Andrea Milana, Tradd Moore
Main Cover: Lorenzo De Felici
Variant Covers: Andrea Milana, Jorge Fornés
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: January 28, 2026
This review contains spoilers
In Creepshow #5‘s first story, “Artificial Ignorance”, we’re introduced to a scientist that’s stolen half of a car and half of a truck to build something else. However, the parts of his “new” vehicle aren’t quite compatible. But he intends to prove his brilliance.
He’s also quite lonely, and so that loneliness and intent to prove himself result in his next creation: a perfect mate for himself. How’s he accomplish this? By stealing body parts from twelve women around town.
But that’s still not enough for him. He creates a new body for himself, so that his “perfect” brain can have a body to match. His brain launches itself out of him, and into the new body. He revels in his success for a moment…and then the mutation kicks in.
Creepshow #5‘s second story, “When I Am Alone” follows Katie, who doesn’t seem to like who she lives with all that much. Main issue with that is: she lives alone. She hates her body, hates being alone, and it’s stated that she knows that she’s nobody’s priority.
As she drifts off to sleep, she muses on how she’d rather be dead than alone. Her arm happens to be hanging off of the edge of the bed.
She’s startled by something suddenly brushing against her hand: it’s another hand, reaching out from under the bed. But when she asks if it’ll hurt her…no answer.
So, for Creepshow #5‘s first story, it definitely had anti-AI vibes, featuring the concept of a guy outright stealing stuff to make something else. Something of inferior quality to the parts he’d literally ripped off, all after pushing a button or three. It makes me wonder how much environmental damage his experiemts would cause, as well.
Something else that comes to mind with his experiments: Frankenstein. Though one huge difference between himself and Dr. Frankenstein is that at least the good doctor’s creation was comprised of parts from corpses. The people whose parts were stolen to create this creeper’s mate (and presumably his new body as well) may have been alive at the time.
His brain jumping ship near the end can likely be compared to the whole thing with how AI can cause cognative decline.
Overall, this story feels like an excellent middle finger to AI usage in general, presented in a way that’s just so uniquely Creepshow.
Creepshow #5‘s second tale is a bit more quietly horrifying in how it plays out. Everything about this story screams “alone”, from the title, to the main character’s isolation…the fact that it’s one creator doing the art, writing, and lettering… The exterior shots leading up to Katie’s introduction are unpopulated by anyone else. The way it’s all framed makes the place look so small. So alone.
Katie is established as hating her own reflection. And we get a number of good looks at her ribs. Hating what she looks like, visible ribs, not having another person around to maybe help her out…there’s a strong possibility that this lady’s got an eating disorder of some kind. I’m wondering if she was driven to such a thing by rejection.
The part about her being aware that, yes, there are people that care about her, but they don’t care enough to make her their first priority felt all too relatable, really. Sometimes people feel invisible to everyone else as they long for companionship, and that line in particular nailed it. Also, on a visual level, I love how that statement isn’t just a straight line contained within the panel, but rather it wraps around the page a bit. It’s the sort of thought one can find themselves ruminating on as it encompasses everything.
And then at the end, we get that “Be careful what you wish for…” vibe, as Katie wishes she weren’t so alone (or were dead). Now, any unknown entity that happens to be lurking under one’s bed is rarely ever good news (especially when they have a humanoid hand coming up). It doesn’t answer her question as to if it’ll hurt her. Not a yes…but not a no, either. She’s likely to get one wish (if not *both*). If it’s the wish for companionship…that can go all kinds of varieties of wrong, depending on which sort of paranormal entity this is. Providing it isn’t just some random creeper that broke into her apartment somewhere down the line.
So, summing up both of these stories, I’m going for a 5/5 star rating. Both tales were freaky in their own way.
Final Thoughts
Creepshow brings us two more eerie tales to close out volume 4, and I enjoyed every second of it. One’s more overt about its horror, one’s more subtle, and both excellent.
