Shyla and her friends lock themselves away in their motel rooms, each of them grappling with the feverish visions induced by the tainted meat they consumed. Are the voices whispering to them real? Has the Butcher of La Perdita come to claim their flesh? Or is the sickness that each of them carries within simply bubbling its way to the surface? Take a bite and find out, as the temperature of this macabre horror story is rising quickly.
With an inventive and brutal second issue, 'The Butcher's Boy' is among my new fave horror stories of 2024. Read Full Review
The flash forward that started The Butchers Boy #1 hangs over the second issue like a ticking clock in the same way it did the first. At times the tension is almost unbearable. And theres a kind of impatience at seeing what Greenwood and Simpson are going to do visually once everything goes bad. The Butchers Boy #2 is a fast moving, high tension issue that will make readers impatient for the horror they know is coming. Read Full Review
Connections to the town's "mystery meat" and distrust amongst themselves sets up action for issue #3, even if there's nothing mysterious about what's to come. Most of what is found in this installment reads like more of the same. Read Full Review