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Sun Eater #1

Heavy Metal 2020 Vol. 1
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A drug-addicted 9th Century warrior sacrifices his leg to the gods to be fused with a savage beast that will give him the ability to rescue his abducted son

Heavy #1

Vault 2020 Vol. 1
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For those who aren't granted access to Heaven they are given a job while they wait and Bill's job is to police the Multiverse with a partner referred to as the worst dude of all time

Stargazer #1

Mad Cave 2020 Vol. 1
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Two decades after a traumatic, explainable event that occurred in their childhood, a group of friends reunite to unravel the truth after one of them goes missing

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After her team is massacred while on a mission, an EMT finds herself with a new team in an even more dangerous situation

[October 2023 - a live-action project of an original story set in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077 is in development]

Dry Foot #1

Mad Cave 2020 Vol. 1
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Set in Miami during its most dangerous and decadent decade, the 1980s, this coming-of-age tale follows four teens who hatch a plan to rob a deadly gang to fund their desperate escape from the drugs and violence of the city

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Not all the witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials—and the ones that survived did so together, protecting the ancient secrets entrusted to them for generations

Inkblot #1

Image 2020 Vol. 1
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A powerful sorceress attempts to correct her greatest mistake—the creation of a magical cat that can travel through time, space, and reality, threatening to unravel the fabric of the universe

Lonely Receiver #1

Aftershock 2020 Vol. 1
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Five-issue horror/break-up story about a woman who buys an Artificial Intelligence partner programmed to bond together for life who after 10 years, disconnects and leaves her

Grendel Kentucky #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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For two generations, Grendel Kentucky has honored the bargain with the monster in the abandoned coal mine but now that the pact has been broken, the town's only hope is for the prodigal daughter to return and bring along her lady biker gang

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An autopsy ship harvests the resources from the corpses of dead gods to sustain humanity but this ship's obsessive captain leads his crew into danger at the darkest reaches of space in search of a living god

Spy Island #1

Dark Horse 2020 Vol. 1
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Four-issue series about a spy stationed on a tropical island surrounded by a dangerous cast of characters and also, the Bermuda Triangle

Broken Gargoyles #1

Source Point Press 2020 Vol. 1
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In a Dieselpunk universe, two scarred men come home from WWI and are unknowingly on a collision course toward each other

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Sequel to the first Canto

Canto must return to the captivity he escaped or risk the clock, that is his heart to discontinue ticking

Bug Bites #1

Source Point Press 2020 Vol. 1
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For years, children have been going missing in a quiet, peaceful town and no one knew why, until a girl found her grandmother's cookbook

Big Girls #1

Image 2020 Vol. 1
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When men become giant monsters hellbent on destroying the world, only Big Girls can stop them

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The Order must face their greatest fears when the Secrets kept guarded by the Keepers and Holders in seven briefcases come under attack by an enemy who knows too much and is willing to kill to get what he wants

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Gina Meyers is a Private Investigator who worries that her powers make her more of a monster than the crooks she's trying to catch

Cardinal Dagon #1

Behemoth 2020 Vol. 1
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Enter the Cardinal: a scoundrel, a boozer and a womanizer who loves karaoke and has just inherited the seat of power after the death of the Pope

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Four-issue comic book adaptation of a sci-fi comedy podcast

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A man stumbles upon a small town infested with eldritch creatures like something out of a Lovecraft novel and is determined to eradicate the entirety of them

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Continuation of the story from the PS4 game that won a 2018 Writer's Guild of America Award for Achievement in Video Game Writing

Preceded by a Free Comic Book Day original story

Patriotika #1

Antarctic Press 2020 Vol. 1
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The goddess Athena must bond with a scrawny college student to become Patriotika and defend the Earth from mythological invaders

Previously self-published through four separate successful crowd-funding campaigns

Bad Mother #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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A woman, bored with her average suburban life finds out what she's really made of after a crime syndicate kidnaps her daughter

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Metalshark Bro is forced out of retirement after a demon kidnaps his hamster

Xira #1

Red 5 2020 Vol. 1
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A chimpanzee, augmented by science, will stop at nothing to protect her child who faces the same fate of a life time of laboratory experimentation

Monstrous Witch Hunt #1

Source Point Press 2020 Vol. 1
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Russian mythological monster, the Baba Yaga, goes on a globe-circling hunt to find a child that went missing from her forest

The Green Hornet #1

Dynamite Entertainment 2020 Vol. 4
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Green Hornet and Kato are forced to take on a series of dark and deadly enemies to protect an alien, infant child that crashed to Earth

Bliss #1

Image 2020 Vol. 1
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Breaking Bad meets American Gods in a series about a man who becomes a contract killer for drug-dealing gods in exchange for the well-being of his family

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The true historical account of Vlad the Impaler who inspired the Dracula story

Yasmeen #1

Scout 2020 Vol. 1
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After rejoining her family in America after surviving two years of slavery under the ISIS terrorist regime in Mosul, an Iraqi teenage girl must overcome the horrors of the past in an attempt to find herself again

No Heroine #1

Source Point Press 2020 Vol. 1
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A guilt-ridden, recovering addict falls into a life of demon-slaying as she tries to make amends for the pain and suffering she caused her family

Lost Soldiers #1

Image 2020 Vol. 1
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40 years after Vietnam 1969, three men tied together by the war they left behind are on a collision course with a new one

Hedra #1

Image 2020 Vol. 1
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56-page one-shot

With echoes of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Flash Gordon and Moebius, a lone astronaut leaves a world ravaged by nuclear war in search of life and what she finds is beyond explanation

Grit #1

Scout 2020 Vol. 1
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When an aging monster hunter comes up against a foe that can’t be felled with the swing of his axe, he’s forced to face the unintended consequences of his brutal style of problem solving with Southern-Fried sword and sorcery

Assassin and Son #1

Scout 2020 Vol. 1
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Variant cover art by Bryan Silverbax

Website exclusive with proceeds benefiting the Gaspard family

Prior to his death from drowning while saving his son, former WWE professional wrestler Shad Gaspard was writing Assassin & Son for publication through Scout Comics

Loggerhead #1

Scout 2020 Vol. 1
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In the wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America, a mysterious creature known as Loggerhead acts as a protector to the helpless

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Cult of Dracula #1

Second Sight Publishing 2020 Vol. 1
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Premiere title from Second Sight Publishing

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' meets the Manson Family in a twist on vampire mythology and the occult

[January 2023 - Source Point issued a press release that production rights for Cult of Dracula have been purchased by BR Films (Dope Boy Magic, Monogamish)]

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Where the story of Adventureman ends, a new one begins as a single mother and her son continue the journey of a pulp hero who's story ended on a cliffhanger 80 years ago

Old Haunts #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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Three Made Men, standing at the brink of retirement, find their unbreakable bond put to the ultimate test when they are suddenly assaulted by the ghosts of their past

[October 2021 - in production with screenplay being written]

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Five-issue fantasy mature-themed series about the aristocrats of the ludicrous

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In a world where those with a magical heritage are threatened with death, a young boy must keep his abilities a secret until he is forced to embrace his gift

[May 2021 - writer James Tynion vaguely teases “meetings” he is having about this property implying a potential movie or TV deal]

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Each year on Dead Day, the deceased return from sunrise to sunset, - some to see family, others to party and invariably, a few with a score to settle

[January 2022 - The Vampire Diaries writers are adapting for Peacock]

Year Zero #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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Five survivors of a horrific global epidemic must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling dead

Artemis & Assassin #1

Aftershock 2020 Vol. 1
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A secret, time-travelling organization sends an assassin back to the World War II era to kill a woman whose death would have a cataclysmic effect on the war

X-Ray Robot #1

Dark Horse 2020 Vol. 1
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Four-issue series about a robot from the far future who visits his human self in the past to wage war against an evil known as the 'Nihilist'

Starship Down #1

Dark Horse 2020 Vol. 1
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An anthropologist investigates the discovery of an extraterrestrial ship buried under the ice for thousands of years in Siberia

Katrina #1

Absolute Comics Group 2020 Vol. 1
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Set during the events of Hurricane Katrina, this story is inspired by the real mythology surrounding the origin of vampires in America

Hotell #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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Just off of Route 66, The Pierrot Courts Hotel - where many check in but few check out

[June 2022 - Deadline reports AWA Studios has tapped Elle Callahan to direct a film adaptation with AWA Studios president Zach Studin producing]

Red Border #1

AWA Upshot 2020 Vol. 1
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After escaping from a drug cartel to Texas, a Mexican couple comes across a mysterious house where the hosts prove to be more sinister than the cartel itself

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