Oni Press sent Major Spoilers an early look at Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #1 by Zac Thompson and Daniel Irizarri.
“CEMETERY KIDS RUN RABID is Nightmare on Elm Street meets Sword Art Online,” said Zac Thompson in a press release from Oni Press. “The series follows four friends who use a bio-console to play an Elden Ring-like game in their sleep. If they die in the game – they wake fully rested. Except that the last part is a lie. (See CEMETERY KIDS DON’T DIE!). Some players, called Cemetery Kids, never wake up. Their minds are trapped inside the game (or inside the bio-console?), while their physical bodies rot in the real world – comatose. Until now. One Cemetery Kid just woke up. But is he still human? Or has a malignant piece of code just crossed the species barrier?”
One year ago, four friends barely escaped the unrelenting terror of the video game called Nightmare Cemetery. After spending endless hours locked into the innovative Dreamwave—the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep—in order to save one of their own from the game’s all-too-real consequences, they survived . . . barely.
But after their harrowing rescue, they’ve decided they’ve had enough of Nightmare Cemetery and its enigmatic final boss, the King of Sleep. That is, until the newest DLC, The Blighted Sprawl, suddenly appears online with a promise to reveal the truth of what actually lurks at the heart of Nightmare Cemetery’s digital darkness . . . and why its effects are now bleeding out into the real world in an array of bizarre and disturbing new ways.
Cemetery Kids Run Rabid #1 arrives on August 13, 2025, with a $4.99 cover price.
