History ComicBook / Nailbiter

-->'''Danny:''' Dude, and you always get mad at ''me'' when I Make jokes at crime scenes.

—->'''Danny:''' Dude, and you always get mad at ''me'' when I Make jokes at crime scenes.

On Halloween 2019, Joshua Williamson [[https://twitter.com/Williamson_Josh/status/1189939198150598657 tweeted]] an image teasing a continuation and in June, 2020 a new series called ''Nailbiter Returns'' began.

The series centers around the fictional town of Buckaroo, Oregon, which has produced sixteen of the United States' worst serial killers, each one with particular and peculiar motivations. Its most recent creation is Edward Charles Warren, otherwise known as "Nailbiter" due to his predilection for chewing off his victim's nails. By the series's start Warren has been caught by FBI agent Charles Carrol, however Carrol has since gone missing, leaving it up to his friend and intelligence agent Nicholas Finch to search for him. Nicholas decides to start his search in Buckaroo, where he begins to question why the small town has produced so many murderers.

On Halloween 2019, Joshua Williamson [[https://twitter.com/Williamson_Josh/status/1189939198150598657 tweeted]] an image teasing a continuation.

!!''Nailbiter'' provides examples of:

* {{Crossover}}: With ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', dealing with the Butchers Mister Fatal and Lucha Eliminador in the first and second issue respectively, and taking place before and during Warren being found out as a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:It turns out that the former is actually the Butcher of Buckaroo.]]

** The Blonde targeted men who catcalled her. [[spoiler:She would then rip out their tongues, sew their mouths shut, and ended up parading a dozen of them down the street.]]

* DrivenToMadness: Having driven eightbof the Buckaroo Butchers to school over his career, including Billy/Mister Fatal, Lauren/the Blonde and Warren drives Thomas Crowe the bus driver completely mad by the present day, leading him to try a MercyKill by drowning the school kids in a lake by driving into it.

* HeroOfAnotherStory: [[SerialKillerKiller Cassie Hack]] of ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', who has her own adventures, but is instrumental in [[spoiler:the transformation of Mister Fatal into the Butcher of Buckaroo]].

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover, which seems to just be another self-contained story like many others of its type, turns out to be [[spoiler:the origin of the Butcher of Buckaroo]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Although she never finds out, [[ComicBook/HackSlash Cassie Hack]] ends up being indirectly responsible for the murders perpetrated by the Butcher of Buckaroo due to not killing him on the Ferris wheel in her {{crossover}}.]]

* TwoFaced: Mister Fatal ends up with this look after getting hit with the business end of [[ComicBook/HackSlash Cassie Hack]]'s baseball bat while it was on fire. [[spoiler:It’s why he ended up wearing a mask as the Butcher of Buckaroo.]]

* {{Crossover}}: With ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', dealing with the Butchers Mister Fatal and the son of Lucha Eliminador in the first and second issue respectively, and taking place before and during Warren being found out as a SerialKiller. [[spoiler:It turns out that the former is actually the Butcher of Buckaroo.]]
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:The Bucker of Buckaroo]] murders [[spoiler:the Bee-man]] by cutting dismembering him while alive, one limb at a time.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Alice says this word-for-word as [[spoiler:she cradles Crane's bleeding body when she is stabbed by Barker in the sixth arc. Thabkfully, she lives]].

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:All of the Buckaroo Butchers and Abigail Barker.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Alice's hair is dyed pink.

* AffablyEvil: Warren is a pretty nice guy... but also a completely unrepentant SerialKiller.

* AxCrazy: While many of the Butchers may count, the most obvious example, [[spoiler:Abigail Barker]], isn’t one of them, but is institutionalized in a straitjacket in a padded room with the below-mentioned MadnessMantra once it is found out.

* FrameUp: [[SinisterMinister Reverend Louis Fairgold]] frames Warren with [[spoiler:taking a bite out of Carroll]] to make him a target of the common people. It doesn’t actually fool the main characters, who realize that the act is not in his MO.

* NobleDemon: Ed "Nailbiter" Warren himself.

* FemmeFatale: The Blonde. [[spoiler:She’s also ''not'' a SerialKiller, as she never actually killed anyone.]]

* IAmAMonster: [[spoiler:Alice]] feels that she is going to be the next a Buckaroo Butcher due to how she is doubting her own sanity.

* BrainwashedAbdCrazy: [[spoiler:All of the Buckaroo Butchers and Abigail Barker.]]

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Carrol's hotel room is a mild example, trying to crack the secret of Buckaroo, but it doesn't have a patch on [[spoiler: Alice's basement.]] On the other hand, by the end of the fifth arc, [[spoiler:Barker's padded cell, covered in bloody renderings of her MadnessMantra]], outstrips then both.

* RoomFullOfCrazy: Carrol's hotel room is a mild example, trying to crack the secret of Buckaroo, but it doesn't have a patch on [[spoiler: Alice's basement.]]

* {{Hallucinations}}: [[spoiler:Barker]] keeps having visions of murdering people after having been ForcedToWatch [[spoiler:the Butcher of Buckaroo]] kill the beekeeper.

* FemmeFatale: The Blonde.

* InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: The ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' crossover, which seems to just be another self-contained story like many others of its type, turns out to be [[spoiler:the origin of the Butcher of Buckaroo]].

** The reveal of the true identity of [[spoiker:The Butcher of Buckaroo as Mister Fatal]].

* {{Crossover}}: With ''ComicBook/HackSlash'', dealing with the Butchers Mister Fatal and the son of Lucha Eliminador in the first and second issue respectively, and taking place before and during Warren being found out as a SerialKiller.