Honourable Mention: Pest Control

The Blurb: Chino and Wang aren’t your average monster hunters, they’re brawlers, hustlers, and unlikely heroes who’ve seen it all.

From the shadowed forests where werewolves prowl, to graveyards crawling with the undead, to crypts ruled by bloodthirsty vampires, they’ve fought their way through every nightmare you’ve heard whispered around a campfire.

Just when you think it can’t get any more dangerous, a multi-headed Hydra rears up from the darkness, ready to tear the world apart. Armed with quick wits, questionable luck, and a knack for surviving the impossible, Chino and Wang are about to face their wildest adventure yet.

The Mention: Another comic from the Afterlight stable, written by Max Aguiree and with art by Jok this was kickstarted in 2025 and is set in a world where society is crumbling after an interdimensional portal opened and allowed an incursion of bugs into our world. It follows Chino and Wang, a couple of monster hunters – who turned to that trade after losing their jobs and, as things start, they are the two remaining hunters out of their crew.

There are a variety of monsters within but, of course, the mention is for the vampires who appear over two chapters. The first of those start with the hunters and a few others trapped in a church under siege by vampires – beyond that the pregnant woman in the church, due and in need of a Caesarean, adds to their problems. The vampires in this are destroyed by direct sunlight but a bit of shade can allow daywalking. When holy water proves to be efficient Chino calls his ex-wife asking her to get a pressure washer and a long hose to him, and he’ll have the priest bless the water as they make a break for the tanning salon over the road and its sunbeds. He aims to get the head vampire en route, describing him as likely the largest alpha male – boy is he wrong about that…

Irreverent, with fatally flawed characters, there is a touch of Ghostbusters to this (it is directly referenced in the opening chapter) but more action and far less genius in the team. You can get the graphic directly from Afterlight.