
About Mine Is A Long Lonesome Grave #1
Writer: Justin Jordan
Artist: Chris Shehan
Colorist: Alessandro Santoro
Letterer: Micah Myers
Editor: Megan Brown
Cover A: Chris Shehan
Cover B: Matthew Roberts
Cover C: Kelsey Ramsay
Cover D: Jeffrey Alan Love
Cover E: Chris Shehan
Cover F: Jason Shawn Alexander
Publisher: Oni Press
Genre: Thriller/Horror
Release Date: February 12th, 2025
Mine Is A Long Lonesome Grave #1 Review
Justin Jordan and Chris Shehan have crafted a darkly twisted thriller of Stephen King-like qualities. Qualities that delve deep into the psyche of a guilt ridden psychopath being twisted and prodded as he struggles to maintain his humanity.
Kicking off with an extreme torture scene, Harley Creed, holds one of his victims in a dark chamber intent on nailing two rail spikes through his eyes as twisted malformed apparition look onward, haunting and barely satisfied.
This cold open is interrupted with Harley leaving gaol with his time now up. He heads back to his town and the memories of his wife and child that still haunt him. Memories that are depicted as echoes of a past where his actions have left him swimming in regret.
As he digs near an old spooky tree out the back of his house, he comes across a bag of cash and two guns, presumably all house. Knowing this is all his life has amounted to as he laments about the death of his wife. Three henchmen arrive, demanding he leave town, which he quickly makes fools of as he dispatches them with his ease and heads to the local church.
Meeting his brother Peter he intends to give him the bag of cash to pass onto his daughter, Maybelle, with Peter telling him she doesn’t want to see him. A moment left ever more bitter when she arrives abruptly only to take the bag of cash from Harley and leave. Believing it a way out of town and the start of a new life.

As Harley makes his way back to his abandoned home he is haunted yet again by two walls of grotesque and deathly-looking faces looking down at him. When he arrives back home he finds the mark of a curse. A curse in which he has 7 days to act on. Although, writer Justin Jordan, keeps the meaning behind this ever so cryptic. One thing is for sure, it’s going to be terribly awful for everyone around Harley.
When one of the henchmen from the earlier scene is parked outside, talking to his boss on the phone, when Harley punches through the windscreen, knocking the man out instantly. He awakens to that same chamber of horrors that we saw in the cold open. Muttering like a madman, Harley explains the way the curse works, that he has to kill the one who laid the bizarre tome, or die himself. A gruesome scene that peaks with Alessandro Santoro’s coloring, seeing Harley nail the two rail spikes through the man’s eyes. And yes, we definitely see it. Ending the issue with Harley cleaning himself up and prepping the two guns he grabbed from the bag earlier for a killing spree.
Mine Is A Long Lonesome Grave has a darkness about it that is rarely matched in the comic book medium. As a story, it sits in the same realm as Netflix’s 1922 film or could be easily be marked as a savage 100 Bullets. Though, it’s hard to pick just how dark and twisted this is going to get, Justin Jordan and Chris Sheehan have certainly mixed the right amount of ingredients to get a truly brutal concoction.
Is it My Kind Of Weird? Yes
Score: 9/10.