In this review of Super Creepshow #3, we’re treated to another chilling pair of super horror tales.
Super Creepshow #3
Writers: James Harren, Brandon Thomas
Artists: James Harren, Juann Cabal
Main Cover: Simon Parr
Variant Covers: James Harren, Juann Cabal
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: May 20, 2026
This review contains spoilers
In “Alone”, we follow a guy as he buries something. The next day, as he goes about his business, he comes across some cavemen, promising to bring their friend back to them.
But then we see a flashback. In it, he’s in his prime, and has the ability to give others the power to be his sidekick. His enemy: Domulus. And he’s imbued one of these cavemen with that power.
The good news: together, they defeat Domulus! The bad news: the caveman soon keels over, and that’s what wakes our hero in the present. He goes to where he’s keeping the caveman sidekick, who has a bunch of smaller versions of himself growing out of him.
And that’s when the rest of the cavemen show up, kill this “hero”, and with their comrade who can multiply, go on a world-conquering rampage.
In “Wish You Well”, we join the story mid-attack, with Octopus Blue forcing his opponent Abyssal to make a horrific choice. And instead, he makes a wish.
A flashback shows him meeting with someone names Wish, wanting to be able to stop an attack on his home. He’s offered a wish in exchange for his soul. He’s confident it won’t come down to that.
But it does come to that, and after the wish, he’s got another choice: kill his enemy or go right back to where he started. From there, he goes on to kill him, then more of his enemies, then his friends’ enemies. It gets to the point where his wife and child barely know who he is anymore and walk out on him.
Abyssal finds Wish again, begging him to take it back…but it turns out that Wish now has the same powers as him. It turns out that Octopus Blue was there before that first meeting, wishing to destroy Abyssal from the inside out with hope.
Going into the artwork for these stories first, I love the styles used for both of them. “Alone” makes great use of dot tones, giving the story a very classic feel. Those stark black shadows that come with that art style help set the mood for this story quite well.
The second story’s colors have more of a sleek, modern look to them. The scenes with Wish are mostly grayscale with bits of blue, which add to the mysterious, somewhat ominous nature of his lair. It can also be a sort of foreshadowing to that ending twist, where it turns out that Wish had also made a deal with Octopus Blue before Abyssal showed up.
With “Alone” as a story, there’s something about seeing a space-faring hero going horribly wrong. His power of gifting powers to a sidekick reminded me a bit of All Might from “My Hero Academia”, with his ability to gift power to whoever he so chose. But whereas he was himself ill, this guy’s gifted powers seem to function similarly to cancer. And from there, we can see why the cavemen would want him dead.
At some point, there’s a figure dressed a bit like the main guy in their cave, either an effigy or the corpse of his sidekick prior to deputizing one of the cavemen. And they definitely want their comrade that he’d empowered/ruined back. It’s pretty well shown that this main character’s not the greatest guy out there, either, looking down on the cavemen as mentally inferior to himself.
Loved that ending narration twist, where it turns out that the true hero was the vaguely Galactus-looking figure
And then we get to “Wish You Well”. Stories about wishes going horribly wrong are a classic, classic trope. It’s why someone dealing with a genie has to be INCREDIBLY specific with their wish to avoid their desire for tons of money being mutated to a bunch of angry and confused male deer. But with this one, that wish gone wrong happens in a beautifully horrific way. Abyssal wants to save those he loves, but must give up his soul. And that loss of his soul? Shown through his killing spree that starts getting easier on him.
Not sure if I had a favorite of the two here, as both of them are well done.
Final Thoughts
A tale of cavemen from Mars and a story about wishing going horribly wrong. What more could one ask for in another chilling installment of Super Creepshow? Both stories work quite well, both bring that blend of superheroes and horror.
