After School Specials Get Twisted in Teen Horror Series From Image Comics

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Since its formation, Image Comics has become the home for independently created comics, and its newest teen horror anthology Afterschool seeks to keep it going with its twisted take on after school specials. Horror anthologies are nothing new to the ever-popular comic publisher Image. One of its most famous series is Ice Cream Man, which continues to print every now and again, and The Silver Coin was upgraded to an on-going series just last year. Now, a new series has entered the fold, and it sounds like it will become an instant classic among horror fans based on its premise alone as it seeks to subvert a notorious and controversial piece of Americana from the 1970s and 1980s.

While people might not see many after school specials on television these days, during the '70s and '80s they were everywhere. They were essentially a series of short programs created by network channels to air after school when kids were coming home, and they were designed to teach difficult life lessons and spark conversation. Originally, they started as their own broadcasting block on ABC with the occasional competitor, but in the 1980s, studios began to bring the messages of these specials to popular sitcoms to create «very special episodes.» One of the most infamous examples was Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, which showed various popular cartoon characters like Alvin and the Chipmunks, Garfield, Bugs Bunny and Kermit the Frog teaching kids that drugs are bad. Now, Image Comics is seeking to return to these types of programs in a new horror anthology...with a deadlier twist.

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Afterschool is a horror anthology series that sets itself up as the savior to corrupted