In this review of It Killed Everyone But Me #5, Sutton finally comes to terms with her demons.
It Killed Everyone But Me #5
Writer: Ryan Parrott
Artist: Letizia Cadonici
Main Cover: Josh Hixson
Variant Covers: Trevor Henderson
Page Count: 28 pages
Release Date: January 14, 2026
This review contains spoilers
We open It Killed Everyone But Me #5 on Sutton questioning her choice to let The Heathen hunt. But she knows that her years of hiding and suppression have done absolutely nothing to help anyone.
In the past, Sutton’s running with Bethany and Lucas while The Heathen taunts them. But Beth is determined to find the candle and fix what she’s done. As they reach it, though, The Heathen attacks Lucas.
Back in the present, Sutton arrives to help Mason. The Stain prepares to attack her…but then The Heathen slashes his arm and devours his demonic-baby-looking companion (which gets him labeled a blood traitor).
Flashback: Bethany distracts The Heathen so Sutton can get to the candle, only for him to threaten her and try to make a deal with Sutton. To remove herself as a bargaining chip, Bethany stabs herself and Sutton blows out the candle.
The battle between Heathen and Stain continues, and Stain briefly gets the upper hand (before Heathen ensures that he no longer has a leg to stand on). But The Heathen doesn’t finish him off, leaving that for Sutton to do.
With his last breaths, Lucas had made Sutton promise to lie about what happened. That it would be way more believeable if the police believed he committed all of the murders as opposed to what had really happened.
And so, Sutton tells Mason to do something similar: not mention The Heathen when he speaks to the police. But she also instructs him to do what she wished she had much sooner: find someone he can trust and tell them the truth of what really went down. She catches up to Lucas’s mother, ready to finally tell her the truth of what happened with her son.
Knowing she can trust her ex to keep an eye on things for her in Riverton, Sutton heads off with The Heathen. She’s offered him a choice: she can either bury him again, or he can team up with her as they hunt down more of his kind.
He chooses the option that provides a more steady diet.
With the flashbacks in It Killed Everyone But Me #5, we’ve finally gotten all the pieces to the trauma Sutton’s been carrying for the past couple decades. Knowing that it was her sister that caused The Heathen to appear in the first place, seeing her friends die, having to lie about what happened not because she’d done anything, but because she just happened to be the last woman standing (right down to setting things up in the cabin for the police to find, since having all of the bodies in one localized spot would be simpler to explain)…
I also love the way It Killed Everyone But Me #5 ends. Some might go the route of her burying the blown-out candle for eternity, leaving The Heathen to rot. But burying everything, as Sutton has come to find out, is the least helpful thing someone can do for their trauma. When someone has demons of that sort, it’s best to learn how to live with them.
And at the end, Sutton learns to literally deal with her biggest demon. Also, the possibility of the two of them teaming up to take out other demons (thus providing The Heathen with a new meal plan while also ensuring that other people don’t go through the same hell that Sutton had) has the potential for a sequel.
Now, this story works well enough as a five-part miniseries, but the way this five-part miniseries ends still feels a lot like a beginning as well. It leaves itself open, just as its main character learns that maybe opennness isn’t a horrible thing.
Final Thoughts
It Killed Everyone But Me #5 brings the story to a fitting close. We get a nicely intense fight, and see Sutton’s trauma turn into determination (and give some interesting new ideas for her future).
