Crawl to Me
| Crawl To Me | |
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Issue 1 artwork
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | IDW Publishing |
| Format | Limited series |
| Genre | Horror |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| No. of issues | 4 |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Alan Robert |
| Artist(s) | Alan Robert |
| Editor(s) | Chris Ryall |
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| Crawl To Me | ISBN |
| Crawl To Me: Evil Edgar Edition | ISBN |
Crawl To Me is a comic book miniseries that was written and illustrated by Life of Agony bassist Alan Robert. The series was published through IDW Publishing from June 2011 through October 2011 and comprised four issues. The collected issues were released in a trade paperback on 17 January 2012 and a special "Evil Edgar Edition" was released on 14 August 2012 with additional artwork, an introduction by Walter Simonson, and cover artwork by Menton3. A limited "Red Label" deluxe edition was released in 2013 and featured a slipcase, signature page, and hand-drawn artwork along with the material included in the "Evil Edgar Edition".
A film adaptation was announced in 2013, but appears to have gone into development hell.
The story opens with Ryan Shelby, a seemingly average married man that is waiting for the movers to arrive while talking to his wife Jess on his cell phone. He advises her to remain at her parents' house as he doesn't know when the furniture will arrive and doesn't want her or their baby Grace to go without. Ryan is startled when his dog Max barks at a fleet of oncoming police cars, whose occupants rush to the neighboring house to arrest Ryan's neighbor Edgar for charges of pedophilia and attempted kidnapping, as well as to search his house. Edgar, who is revealed to be a registered sex offender, refuses to comply with the police and opens fire, slaying several of the officers but also getting shot in the process. Having overheard the shots, Ryan decides to investigate and is horrified at the mass carnage in front of him. He's further horrified when Edgar (who has glowing eyes at this point) grabs him with the intent to shoot him, only for Edgar to say that he knows Ryan and that he was "one of his favorites". Edgar tries to kill Ryan, but fails due to a lack of ammunition. Bewildered, Ryan demands to know how Edgar knows him and Edgar shows him a clown buckle, which Ryan recognizes. Reeling, Ryan runs to his house to take his pills and turns around to find that everything has vanished and that this was all a hallucination. He talks to his wife Jess soon after this and expresses concern about how real everything looked before it vanished. While talking to her, he reads the words "DO NOT TRUST HER" on his pill bottle.
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