A satanic murder cult sacrificing farm animals sounds like a fairly standard horror premise. Telling that story from the goat’s point of view is not. It Demands Sacrifice, a new Bad Idea limited series from Philip Gelatt, David Yarovesky, Adam Pollina, and Dean White, arrives in comic shops September 23, 2026, and the angle alone was enough to get us curious before we’d even read the synopsis.
IT DEMANDS SACRIFICE #1
Publisher: Bad Idea Comics
Writers: Philip Gelatt, David Yarovesky
Artist: Adam Pollina
Colorist: Dean White
Release date: September 23, 2026
So, What’s the Story?
Bronson is the runt of a goat family living a pretty easy life on a farm, spending most of his energy trying to earn some respect from his older siblings and his father. That changes fast when a drugged-out, sex-crazed satanic cult shows up one night, kills the humans who’d been looking after the herd, and hauls the goats off into the woods. Under a blood-red moon, hundreds of cultists are preparing to offer the herd up to summon something from beyond, and it falls to Bronson, tiny, scared, and nowhere near ready for any of this, to somehow get his family out alive.
Who’s Making It Demands Sacrifice?
Philip Gelatt and David Yarovesky co-write the series, Adam Pollina draws it, and Dean White colors, published by Bad Idea in Prestige Format.
Gelatt is an Emmy winner best known as the lead writer on Netflix’s Love, Death & Robots, having written more episodes than anyone else on the show, which has picked up 17 Primetime Emmys along the way. Outside that, he wrote Europa Report, wrote and directed the cosmic horror feature They Remain, co-wrote and produced The Spine of Night, and picked up a WGA Award for Rise of the Tomb Raider, with Amnesia: The Bunker and the upcoming Ontos also on his résumé. He’s not new to comics either, but his screen work is clearly the bigger draw here.
This is Yarovesky’s first comic, and his film résumé explains the excitement. He directed Brightburn, the James Gunn-produced superhero horror hit, The Hive, which premiered at Fantastic Fest, Nightbooks for Netflix and Sam Raimi, and most recently Locked, starring Bill Skarsgård and Anthony Hopkins. He’s also directed commercials and music videos for acts like Steve Aoki and Korn, plus Marvel Studios’ viral Guardians of the Galaxy: Inferno video.
Pollina, meanwhile, is a legitimate comics OG, he drew X-Force during its original 1991-2002 run, and it’s genuinely great to see him still turning out work at this level based on the preview pages. Dean White brings his own pedigree too, having colored Conan the Barbarian among other major titles.
Why We’re Watching This One
The goat’s-eye-view angle immediately reminded us of Stray Dogs and Feral, both from Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner, which told psychological horror from dogs’ and then cats’ perspectives and made it work brilliantly both times. Animal-POV horror is a small subgenre, but when it lands, it really lands, and It Demands Sacrifice looks like it’s aiming for that same space with an even weirder premise. It’s also part of a shelf of non-human-lead horror and genre comics we’ve been enjoying lately, including Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, which follows a bear as its lead, D’Orc, starring an orc, and Bleeding Hearts, whose protagonist is a zombie. Funny enough, Patrick Horvath, the creator of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, is also drawing one of the variant covers here.
The preview pages Bad Idea released look genuinely great too, worth a look if you want a sense of how Pollina is balancing the cute and the horrific.
Bad Idea as a publisher is also consistently worth watching. They’ve built a reputation on doing things differently, from Cul-de-Sac and The Destroyer to Ordained (soon a film starring Colin Farrell) and The Hab. Planet Death alone sold over a million copies on its debut issue, reportedly the best-selling independent comic launch in three decades, so a new Bad Idea team is always worth watching.
Who Should Add This to Their Pull List?
Fans of Stray Dogs, Feral, or animal-POV horror should have this near the top of their list. So should Love, Death & Robots fans curious what Gelatt does with horror, Brightburn fans following Yarovesky into comics, and anyone who remembers Pollina’s X-Force run.
Release Details
It Demands Sacrifice #1 arrives in comic shops September 23, 2026, from Bad Idea, priced at $5.99 for 32 pages. It’s a Prestige Format limited series; a total issue count hasn’t been announced yet. Covers come from Adam Pollina alongside a stacked variant lineup: Tony Fleecs (with a Stray Dogs homage cover), Patrick Horvath, Brett Bean, Alex Pardee, and Skottie Young.
Tony Fleecs
Patrick Horvath
Grant Wood
FAQ
When does It Demands Sacrifice come out? Issue #1 arrives in comic shops September 23, 2026, from Bad Idea.
Who is writing It Demands Sacrifice? Philip Gelatt, known for Love, Death & Robots, co-writing with David Yarovesky.
Who is drawing It Demands Sacrifice? Adam Pollina, with colors by Dean White.
What publisher is releasing It Demands Sacrifice? Bad Idea, in Prestige Format.
Is It Demands Sacrifice a new series, limited series, or one-shot? It’s a new limited series; the total issue count hasn’t been confirmed yet.
Is It Demands Sacrifice connected to Stray Dogs or Feral? Not directly, they’re unrelated comics from different creators, but they share the same animal-POV horror instinct that makes the genre work so well.
Who should read It Demands Sacrifice? Fans of animal-POV horror, Love, Death & Robots and Brightburn fans, and anyone who remembers Adam Pollina’s original X-Force run.
