Chilling Adventures of SalemSticks Sabrina’s Pet in a Supernatural Catfight

While Archie Comics has had no problem pitting its principal grapheme againstwerewolves , zombie , andmore , the kingdom of spooks and specters has always been more the domain ofSabrina the Teenage Witch … and her cursed cat , Salem . Now , the feline conversant will get his own fortune to battle the forces of darkness when the one - shot special Chilling Adventures of Salem go far later this October , and you may get a trailer here .

The comic comes from creative person Dan Schoening and writer Cullen Bunn , who dreamed up the premise while play a mystery of his own . “ One day , while out for my morning walk , I acknowledge a weird number of missing favourite post-horse on lamp posts , ” Bunn said in a instruction provided to i09 . “ Lamp C. W. Post after lamp post . Then , I see a lamp post that had no posters at all . The tape recording was there , but someone had torn the posters down . I had this vision of someone walk along tearing overleap favored posters down . It was just a unusual image that popped into my head . I did n’t know why someone would do such a thing , but my head ingest me in some glum directions . ”

In this trailer , Salem discovers the somebody who ’s take down the missing pet post-horse and investigates , but … “ You eff what they say about curiosity and cats , after all , ” Bunn aver .

Image: Dan Schoening and Matt Herms/Archie Comics

Chilling Adventures of Salem arrives in comic shops tomorrow , October 12 .

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