Story: 🎃 The Pumpkin Queen and the Gloomy Forest (The Brainrots #2)

⚠️ CONTAINS SPOILERS ⚠️

From the comic book “The Brainrots” #2  - published in October 2025

• Script and text: Sandro Savarese
• Art: Saby Asachi

In the Halloween issue of “The Brainrots” there is a story that feels like a fairy tale… until you actually start reading it.

Because here, the protagonist isn't a princess.

She is a pumpkin.

And she doesn't dream of a castle.
She dreams of something much more dangerous:

becoming an official character of the comic.

✍️ A new stroke, a new madness: Saby Asachi

This story also introduces a new name behind the panels: Saby Asachi, a new artist, with a style that makes everything more fairy-tale-like… but also gloomier.

The forests are darker.
The shadows longer.
The expressions “too real”.

Perfect for a story that begins with laughter… and ends with a forest that listens.

🎃 The Protagonist: Queen Pumpkin

She calls herself Queen Pumpkin.

She is ambitious, theatrical, and convinced that Halloween is her one-time chance to conquer the city and gain the respect of the narrative world of The Brainrots.

She has a simple plan:

1. get into the story
2. become indispensable
3. get crowned as the official symbol of the night

Too bad that… nothing in The Brainrots stays simple.

 

🤝 The craziest team in the world

To pull off the feat, Queen Pumpkin joins an impossible team:

• Boneca Ambalabu 
• Frigo Cammello 
• Trippi Troppa 
• Coco Elefanto 

The official goal of the mission?

🕯️ Decorating the city for Halloween.

Garlands, pumpkins, lights, fake spiderwebs, creepy statues, fog machine smoke.
A normal job… if not for the fact that they are the ones doing it.

 

🌆 The City Transforms… Too Much

At first, everything goes “fine” (meaning: badly, but fun).

Then something happens.

The decorations start acting strangely:

• the pumpkins laugh when no one is looking,
• the webs grow on their own,
• the streetlights cast shadows that don't belong to anyone,
• and every garland hung seems to form symbols no one designed.

The city is becoming beautiful.

But also…

alive.

 

🌲 The Gloomy Forest

The turning point comes when the group goes to get the “last perfect decoration” in a forbidden place:

The Gloomy Forest.

A forest that rarely appears in the comic.
A place where plants have memory.
And where Halloween isn't a party.

It’s a language.

Queen Pumpkin is convinced the Forest will make her legendary.
But the Forest gives nothing away.

The Forest takes.

 

🎭 Satire, fear, and chaos

The story is a perfect mix of:

• satire on “becoming famous at all costs”,
• absurd team gags,
• creepy moments from a warped fairy tale,
• and an ending that leaves the most important question:

Queen Pumpkin wanted to become a character.

But…

at what price?