Title: Beyond the White Picket Fence: Why “The Neighbors” by John Persons is Your Next Comic Obsession

• Next door (Left): The Gurgler – a mass of sentient plumbing fixtures that spews cryptic prophecies about dividend yields and lawn maintenance.
• Next door (Right): The Hive Sisters – three women sharing one body who speak in perfect unison and knit sweaters out of existential dread.
• Across the street: Mr. Shivers – a 12-foot-tall gentleman made of frozen shadows who is obsessively polite and brings over casseroles every Tuesday.

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The series is told primarily from the perspective of Twelve-year-old Leo Okonkwo, a recent transplant to Haddington Heights after his parents’ divorce. Leo is a budding documentarian, constantly filming everything on a beat-up camcorder. He’s lonely, observant, and desperate to find a story that will make sense of his fractured world. That story arrives in the form of the moving truck next door.

Not metaphorical monsters. Actual, physical, Lovecraftian horrors.