In this review of Creepshow #4, we get two new treats from The Creep. In one, Darren learns what it truly means to put one’s body on the line for their work, and in the other, Eric finds out that there’re some things even more horrifying than a girlfriend’s disapproving father.
Creepshow #4
Writers: Sina Grace, Joel Farrelly
Artists: Ramon Villalobos, Ryusei Yamada
Main Cover: Lorenzo De Felici
Variant Covers: Ramon Villalobos, Jorge Fornés
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: December 24, 2025
This review contains spoilers
The first story of Creepshow #4, “The Wheels On The Truck”, kicks off as Darren is offered a new position at his job, connected to the company’s new cutting-edge trucks. The job entails entering a pod, and his consciousness being connected to one of these new truck’s tires. Anything that happens to the tire on the road also happens to the person in the pod.
He’s getting used to it, and meets Laura, another “tire” who works the night shift. He starts to fall for her, when he gets into a particularly nasty wreck. It changes his whole outlook on this gig, and he starts to worry about how much punishment Laura goes through.
He stalks one of the trucks, one he’s sure she’s part of. When the driver tries to relieve himself a bit too close to her, Darren attacks him.
It almost costs him his job, but he begs to take Laura’s shift as well and for her to get the promotion he was initially up for. And once he’s out of earshot…Laura turns out to not have been a tire at all, and instead been connected to the boss, the two having basically played him for a sucker.
The second story, “Night of the American Boyfriend” has Eric visiting his girlfriend Emi and her parents in Japan. He’s on the phone with a friend of his, lamenting that his girlfriend’s father doesn’t seem to like him very much. His friend keeps reassuring him, but Eric isn’t so sure. And soon after hanging up, he steps on something spiny on the ground.
Heading in, he’s greeted by Emi’s father, who apologizes for his behavior at dinner and offers him a drink. He then asks Eric if he’s okay, as Eric tells him about stepping on something. He tries to get a look at it, only for Eric’s leg to mutate into a worm/slug type of thing.
It attacks Emi’s father, tries to attack Emi herself when she comes to see what the commotion is, and is ultimately hacked off with a sword.
In a bar, Eric is telling his story, mentioning that Emi broke up with him after he recovered enough. The bartender claims the story is BS, but Eric removes his prosthetic, shows the hole from the mutation…and then the worm/slugs return.
So, the first story in Creepshow #4 immediately made me think of a cross between “Avatar” and this one movie that came out some time ago called “Rubber”, about a tire that rolls around and blows stuff up by sheer thought alone. (Yes, this movie exists.)
But in this case, the story is driven by good old-fashioned corporate greed. Companies have a tendency to use people up and discard them, and hiring people specifically to be used as the tires for their new state-of-the-art trucks is one of those things that makes one sigh, nod, and just say: “Yeah, that tracks…”.
That said, the reader definitely feels for Darren. He ends up taking a job that puts him through the wringer, seems to connect with a woman in a similar situation to himself, is willing to kill for this woman, and is probably not going to survive much longer because of him giving himself to the company so fully.
The second story in Creepshow #4 was sort of a fun one. We don’t get an explanation for what Eric stepped on, for why it made his leg mutate the way it did…but that explanation’s not really necessary. All that’s really needed to know is that the results were horrifying and led to an amputation and a breakup.
The characterization in this one, between Eric and Emi’s father, was nicely done. Eric comes across as just a normal guy experiencing a culture that’s new to him. Emi’s father may seem a bit gruff and standoffish, but he’s willing to apologize for his actions that’d made a dinner awkward. He offers some warm sake—his own preference–while referring to some of his colleagues as snobs that only drink it cold. He’s definitely trying to find some common ground with the young man, and shows concern when he’s just dealing with discomfort.
But the parasite isn’t truly gone, as Eric (and the bartender) figures out at the end. Even if he hadn’t actually dated the girl from the whiskey ad, as the bartender had brought up, the parasite part was definitely proven true, and it probably lives in more than a few nightmares.
Final Thoughts
Creepshow #4 delivers another pair of horrific tales, featuring such nightmares as the lengths one might go to for their job and the importance of watching one’s step.
