Dave Baker’s Halloween Boy: Last of the Halloween Boys is getting a collected edition in 2025 from Oni Press.
“Halloween Boy is my attempt at making a two-fisted adventurer for the post-superhero age. Does the book feature megalomaniacal villains, inter-planetary warfare, and classic pulp-inspired escapades? You bet,” said Dave Baker in a press release from Oni Press. “But, it’s also a deeply personal reflection on family, fraternity, and purpose. The comics medium has been obsessively deconstructing and dismantling how we view what a hero is for the past forty years. I think there’s value in that, and some of those tendencies can even be seen in this project. However, when it came to creating The Demon Who Lives, I really wanted to re-construct the heroic iconography that lured me into this great medium as a child. To repurpose, remix, and rebuild the best aspects of these types of stories in a hyper-earnest and sincere way. Hopefully, The Man of a Thousand Fates means half as much to other people as he does to me. After all, the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.”
HALLOWEEN BOY chronicles the voyages of the man known only as Halloween Boy — an adventurer without a past and a combatant of the impossible. Halloween Boy traverses the galaxies taking on impossible quests and defending the innocent in an effort to live up to the legacy of his long-lost father…until his adventures unlock ugly secrets about his origins and his father’s true motives. Can Halloween Boy now face both the truth of the past – and his father himself?!
Halloween Boy Vol. 1: Last of the Halloween Boys is scheduled to arrive on May 26, 2026.
