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Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering (2024) Curated by Becky Cloonan
Episode 12
Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
Happy Halloween, listeners! This month on Collecting Issues, the monthly comic book book club, Michael and Benjamin skirt the rules to cover an anthology: Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering.This 2024 one-shot is published by the new, creator-owned DSTLRY Comics. It's an... interesting business model of limited digital runs and resellable digital rights. (Wait, did we just buy an NFT? Is this the blockchain?)Curated by horror maestro Becky Cloonan, Come Find Me is a collection of six chilling mini-stories steeped in folk and medieval horror. Join us as we apply "useful frameworks" (much to Michael's disgust) to break down every tale in this unnerving collection from a lineup of incredible female and non-binary creators.We discuss:"Devil's Trill" (Hamlet Machine): A sexy, weird, and wordless Faustian pact that sets a spectacular gothic tone."Portorium" (Becky Cloonan): A classic tale of grave robbery, Roman gods (hello, Orcus), and why you should never steal from the dead."Down by the Water" (Molly Mendoza): A beautiful, abstract, and unsettling story of gossip, grief, and... frog spawn?"Coal &Clover" (Vanessa R. Del Rey): A straightforward folk horror revenge story set in a brutal American company town. Don't make deals with the Fae!"La Chéta" (Celine Loup): The one that left us scratching our heads. A sketchy, Alpine tale of a sexy widow and... well, we're still not sure."Warmth of the Hunt" (E.M. Carroll): An absolute banger to finish the anthology. A stunning, timeless depiction of the Wild Hunt with tattoo-worthy art.Which stories gave us "oozing dread" and which one was less fright and more...?Follow the Podcast:Join the Discord and read alongRead Our SubstackFollow us on InstagramFollow us on TiktokWatch us on YoutubeNext Comic:Local Man, a deconstruction of the Big Guns and Pouch era of 90's comics by Tim Seeley and Tony FleecsTime Stamps:00:00 Introduction to 'Come Find Me'01:33 Overview of DSTLRY Comics04:01 Exploring the Anthology's Themes04:53 Spotlight on Becky Cloonan09:03 Diving into 'Devil's Trill'21:32 Analysis of 'Portorium'32:04 Molly Mendoza's 'Down by the Water'36:20 Unraveling the Mystery of the Drowned Lover38:33 The Grim Trysts and Henry's Dark Secrets39:54 The Frog Spawn Mystery and Henry's Duality44:17 Medieval Horror and the Tale of Coal & Clover44:37 The Dark Art of Vanessa Del Ray48:57 The Folkloric Influence in Horror Comics01:04:17 The Wild Hunt and the Art of EM Carroll01:10:32 Final Thoughts and Upcoming Reads Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
