In this review of “It Killed Everyone But Me #4”, Sutton receives a visit from her concerned ex-husband and ultimately comes out of hiding (and enters into an uneasy alliance).
It Killed Everyone But Me #4
Writer: Ryan Parrott
Artist: Letizia Cadonici
Main Cover: Josh Hixson
Variant Covers: Trevor Henderson
Page Count: 28 pages
Release Date: December 10, 2025
This review contains spoilers
It Killed Everyone But Me #4 begins in the past, as we see The Heathen, having brought Donovan home for dinner. He explains the nature of his kind, how they’re required to make humans fear again. After his meal ultimately passes, he starts to head off…only to encounter Bethany.
Back in the present, Sutton is woken from a disturbing dream/flashback by her ex husband Mark. Addison had contacted him, informing him that Sutton had had a freakout in the kitchen. He talks to her about how hiding her trauma the way she has was what drove a wedge into every meaningful relationship she’d ever had, up to and including theirs. He offers to help with whatever he can, before heading off.
With Ian, he’s trying to help Mason, but can’t leave with him until The Stain is fully dealt with. Jeremy, now missing his legs, crawls in to warn Ian to leave. But he doesn’t. Instead, he looks for the pig heart used to summon The Stain. As he seeks it out, The Stain is watching him. Taunting him. He can smell The Heathen on him, and as he goes to stab the heart, he informs the detective of one key detail: The Heathen was lying.
Sutton’s desperately trying to contact Ian in response to his voicemail, knowing that The Heathen is not to be trusted. She flashes back to that fateful night again, with her and Lucas trying to run, getting nowhere, and encountering Bethany. It turns out that she was the one to summon The Heathen, who promised her everything she wanted in exchange for five human sacrifices.
Sutton, in the present, summons The Heathen again. This time, she’s intent on showing absolutely no fear, instead demanding answers from the demon. She wants the truth of where he’d sent Ian and how to kill The Stain, before drafting him into going with her to hunt him down.
So, in It Killed Everyone But Me #4 we finally meet Sutton’s estranged husband, and just from his brief appearance, it’s pretty clear why she married him in the first place. He shows no signs of being anything but a kind, understanding guy, and he doesn’t seem to blame her, personally, for the dissolution of their relationship so much as the fact that she pushed all that trauma down. Didn’t really talk with anyone about it, never exactly worked through it. He’s not even looking to pry into the details, and that whole talk with him feels like a first step in the direction of healing.
The artwork in It Killed Everyone But Me #4 is still well-done, here. Still has a nice clean quality to the lines. I think one of my favorite panels may have to be when The Heathen is remembering that night so many years ago, with how Sutton scared him. The lighting in that panel (well, the whole scene, really) just adds so much to his unsettling expression, and I appreciate that.
The Heathen continues to be as entertaining as he is unsettling. The fact that we see him dining on one of his victims feels fitting for him, definitely. Even the part where he’s casually chatting with his not-quite-dead-yet meal isn’t much of a shock. But him drawing the line of Weird at projected auto-cannibalism makes me chuckle. Some well-done dark humor, in that scene.
It’s also not a shock at all to find out that The Heathen was lying through his blood-stained teeth to Detective Shell. He has no reason to be honest with the guy, after all. He’s merely Sutton-adjacent and not Sutton herself. Plus, sending someone to die is the best way he has to satiate his blood lust.
The Heathen’s apparent villainous crush on Sutton honestly tracks. He outright states that she’s the first mortal to have actually fought back against him, and that she scared him back then. Which sounds a bit like why Mark had mentioned being attracted to her: he was drawn to her fearlessness.
And it becomes quite clear that she’s ready to prove her fearlessness by the time the issue ends.
Final Thoughts
It Killed Everyone But Me #4 brings Sutton out of hiding and right back into the thick of things. Bring on the final chapter! The stage is set for an epic confrontation between two demons and a Class A Survivor.
