Review: Dead Girls - Beck Kubrick

Review: Dead Girls - Girls Just Wanna Get Even - Beck Kubrick - September 2026

I'll be honest, I picked this one up expecting a fun, gory romp through slasher tropes, and while I absolutely got that, I wasn't prepared for how much this graphic novel would sneak up on me emotionally. Dead Girls is exactly what it promises on the tin  a love letter to slasher films but it's the friendship at its center that really got under my skin.

Clossdale is the kind of small town that horror fans will recognize instantly: pretty on the surface, rotten underneath, and apparently cursed with an alarming body count of teenage girls. When a fifth victim turns up, suspicion immediately falls on Ash, the daughter of a notorious serial killer. There's something so viscerally unfair about watching Ash carry the weight of her mother's crimes, and I found myself rooting for her from page one  not because she's a perfect heroine, but because she's angry, and she has every right to be.

What really elevates this book is the relationship between Ash, her foster sister Cassie, and her best friend Jamie. Their dynamic feels lived-in and real, full of the kind of prickly, protective love that only exists between teenage girls who've been through too much together. When Ash finds a note warning she's next, the decision for the three of them to investigate themselves isn't just a plot device  it's an act of desperation from girls who've learned the hard way that no one else is coming to save them.

If you loved the tangled, slow-burn mystery of Holly Jackson's work, and an eerie, unsettling atmosphere, you'll find familiar comfort here. And if Yellowjackets scratched an itch for feral girlhood colliding with horror, Dead Girls will too. The artwork leans into shadow and suggestion in all the right places, letting dread build rather than relying purely on shock.

As the girls' plan spirals into something far bigger and darker than they anticipated, the book never loses sight of what it's really about: friendship as survival, and the terrifying question of who you can actually trust when everyone around you is a suspect.

This is a graphic novel for anyone who's ever felt like the town was against them, and found their people anyway. Highly recommend curling up with this one,  maybe not alone, and maybe not at night.


Amazon: https://link.amazon/B04Skn8mM