Book Synopsis

Shaun of the Dead meets Nope with an injection of IT in GOOBERS - a hugely humorous horrorfest!

Something strange is bugging the residents of Pine Cove.

Clayton Lowe is headed back to his small Southern hometown, despite his best efforts to leave it in the rearview mirror. Clay's new friends from grad school are about to meet his old friends from high school and discover that something may have finally changed in the town where nothing ever changes: Pine Cove is ground zero for an infestation of body-snatching alien-bugs.

Time to bury the past.

And it ain't gonna be easy.

From Cody Ziglar (Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Deadpool, Spider-Punk, Futurama) and Ryan Lees (Rick & Morty) comes a body-snatching splatter-fest of horror and humor!

For fans of the films: Shaun of the Dead, Attack the Block, Jordan Peele's Nope, the 80s horror film Night of the Creeps, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Slither, Gremlins, the video game Left 4 Dead, and the books The Stupidest Angel (Christopher Moore), Meddling Kids (Edgar Cantero), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Jack Finney), The Dark Side of Nowhere (Neal Shusterman), They're Here! There Goes the Neighborhood (Hank Davis), Dreamcatcher and IT (Stephen King), Summer of Night (Dan Simmons), Scott Kenemore's Zombie triology: Zombie, Ohio: A Tale of the Undead, Zombie, Illinois: A Novel, and Zombie, Indiana: A Novel; Welcome to Night Vale (Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Canor), Swan Song (Robert R. McCammon - new Gallery books edition), Black Mouth (Ron Malfi), Himself (Jess Kidd), John Dies at the End (Jason Pargin/David Wong), Night of the Living Trekkies (Kevin David Anderson & Sam Stall), Get In Trouble (Kelly Link), Monster (A. Lee Martinez), Fright Squad (Flint Maxwell), Clowns vs. Spiders (Jeff Strand), and graphic novels Paper Girls (Brian K. Vaughn/Cliff Chiang), Rick and Morty, Bitter Root (David F. Walker), Money Shot (Tim Seeley/Sarah Beattie/Rebekah Isaacs/Carolyn Leigh Layne/Giselle Lagace), The Nasty (John Lees/Adam Cahoon), Eat the Rich (Sarah Gailey/Pius Bak).

PRAISE FOR GOOBERS:

"A hilarious and harrowing story that perfectly captures the discomfort of your new life colliding with your past. It's The Blackening meets Slither and a must-read for anyone from a small town." -- Ben Katzner (Hello My Name is Poop, Muddy Waters Too)

"This is the missing John Carpenter movie about very icky creatures terrorising our very relatable, and perfectly cartooned, heroes in a backwoods home town world that's just extreme enough to be real. One hell of a ride." -- Paul Cornell (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters)

"GOOBERS is electrifying, disgustingly enjoyable, and wickedly funny... in the darkest of ways.GOOBERS is on my list for some hilarious body-snatching gory horror fun." -- Son M. (Something Crawled Out, Thief of the Heights, Animalheads)

"A big ol' gross kick in my nose! Get you some Goobers!" -- Paul Tobin (Heist or How To Steal a Planet, The Witcher, Plants vs. Zombies)

"Horror comedy is a lost art but in Goobers, Ziglar and Lee are bringing it back with fervor...perfectly riding the line between whip-crack humor and gross-out scares." -- Lonnie Nadler (The Sickness, The Sounds of Nightmares, Black Stars Above)

About the Author

Cody Ziglar is an Emmy nominated LA based writer, director, and producer. He currently writes Miles Morales: Spider-Man and Deadpool for Marvel Comics. Cody's a graduate of the Savannah College of Art & Design Film & Television MFA program. He's also written for Futurama, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Rick & Morty, Robot Chicken, and Craig of the Creek. Produced podcasts for Earwolf, iHeartRadio, and UCB Comedy. And directed videos featured on Funny or Die, Cracked, WhoHaha, and more.

Ryan Lee is a comic artist and illustrator whose 25 year creative resume also includes storyboards, character/concept design, graphic design, fine art painting and art direction. He's drawn various RICK AND MORTY covers and comics for Oni Press, the horror epic Mountainhead (IDW), INHUMAN for Marvel, and ARCHER and ARMSTRONG for Valiant. In the past he's also done work for Dynamite, Dark Horse, Image, Black Mask, and others.

Kurt is the colorist of comic books such as THE BLUE FLAME and MONEY SHOT from Vault Comics, GLITTERBOMB, and HACK/SLASH. Technically, he colored BATMAN one time in DC's LOVE IS A BATTLEFIELD anthology. It counts.

He won the 2021 Nerdie for Colorist of the Year from The House of Nerd Podcast.

Kurt is also the creator of the Color With Kurt YouTube channel - a channel focused on making color more accessible.youtube.com/ColorWithKurt

He lives in Long Beach, Mississippi, with his wife and two cats. When he is not coloring, he enjoys drawing, streaming, playing basketball, video games, movies, and coloring more.

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Der-shing Helmer is the Eisner-nominated and Ignatz-award winning independent science-fantasy and educational comic artist from the CA Bay Area, now based in the San Diego Area. Der-shing is currently the Managing Editor at Vault Comics. She is a self-taught artist, and has a biology degree from UC Berkeley as well as a formal background in secondary science education.