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Bad Idea ⋅ 2022

Burning Man #1
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Story of a thief who escapes from hell and is pursued by demons

Multiple choice ending that gives the reader the option of which story to follow in later publications

Bad Idea describes this story as potentially infinite and endless in its diverging narrative

Bad Idea ⋅ 2022

They're All Terrible #1
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After the Great Wars end, a horde of bad guys decide to rob the richest city in the land but are confronted by the seven barbarians who are hired to defend it

Mad Cave ⋅ 2022

Dahlia In The Dark #1
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A washed up hitman takes one last job in hopes of seeing his daughter again

Frank Miller Presents ⋅ 2022

Frank Miller's Pandora #1
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What if you could have everything you ever wanted, but it was at everyone else's expense?

Frank Miller Presents ⋅ 2022

Ronin Book Two #1
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Frank Miller returns to one of his most critically praised and influential body of works

Last Ride of Pillar & Pryde #1
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Two adults who were childhood heroes return to their hometown to mend relationships but find that a new evil has emerged

Ablaze ⋅ 2022

Traveling to Mars #1
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A terminally ill man is the first to be sent to Mars knowing there is no chance he will return

A Vicious Circle #1

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Spanning from 22nd century Tokyo to 1950s New Orleans to the Cretaceous Era and beyond, two mortal rivals are locked in a battle of wills that spans millions of years

[June 2024 - optioned by Universal Pictures with Mattson Tomlin writing and Ryan Coogler producing]

BOOM! ⋅ 2022

Know Your Station #1
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The wealthiest people in the solar system abandoned the Earth for a private sanctuary in space, leaving the rest of us to die amidst cataclysmic climate change

It's Only Teenage Wasteland #1
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When his parents go out of town for the weekend, a high school kid decides to throw a party but an unexpected event thrusts he and his friends into a situation that could alter their future forever

Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

Assassin's Apprentice #1
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A boy begins to settle into his new life in a new town but as the power of ancient forces growing inside of him begin to stir, his new friends realize something is off

Bad Kids Press ⋅ 2023

Nowhere Man, The #1
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A man is trapped in a spirit world of the subconscious where he encounters gods, shamans, and other strange, unexpected creatures

Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

Groo: Gods Against Groo #1
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Four-issue limited series continuing a story that began in Groo: Fray of the Gods

Dead Seas #1

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A thriller about a prisoner seeking a reduced sentence by agreeing to gather the highly valuable supernatural substance known as ectoplasm from a floating prison

Escape From Wyoming #1
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When a group of the galaxy's worst criminals escape a secret intergalactic prison buried beneath Wyoming, a small-town sheriff and a disgraced alien cop must join forces to bring the outlaws to justice before planet Earth explodes

Bad Idea ⋅ 2022

Orc Island #1
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In search of fame and fortune, a group of adventurers journey to Orc Island to find a highly valuable Orc skull but find a world unlike anything they could have imagined

Aftershock ⋅ 2024

Foulness In The Walls
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After a tragic loss, a man begins to rebuild his life in a new house with a new job and the girl of his dreams but guilt becomes something as malevolent as an evil spirit

Aftershock ⋅ 2024

All Night and Every Day #1
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A grief-stricken woman is dragged to a cursed party that never ends where she must learn the nature of its terrible secrets before she is consumed forever

Knight And The Lady of Play, The #1

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A knight is traveling home to his wife after a war with demons but is tempted by a mysterious woman who tempts him to stay with her

Opus ⋅ 2022

Monsters of Metal
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Frankenstein’s monster, Medusa, Jack O’Lantern, Werewolf and the Bride form a metal band

Marked: Halloween Special #1

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On Halloween, The Marked must protect a town that has been invaded by a horde of Trickster Demons whose bloody version of trick-or-treat leaves a trail of dead townspeople

Leonide the Vampyr: Miracle at The Crow's Head #1

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A small, coastal village is home to normal people living quiet and simple lives--until a shipwreck brings a small coffin and its occupant into their midst

Halloween Party

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One-shot from Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan who are applying the same formula from The Secret History of the War on Weed to the Halloween holiday season

Aftershock ⋅ 2025

Hell is a Squared Circle #1
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One-shot described as "wrestling noir" about a third-rate competitor trying to make ends meet in his personal life but winding up with blood on his hands and the authorities on his heels

Image ⋅ 2022

Night Club #1
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Seventeen-year-olds use their newly-acquired vampire powers as costumed superheroes

Image ⋅ 2022

All Against All #1
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In the far future, the sole surviving human specimen becomes an apex predator against an alien race of conquerors who harvest organic bodies as exosuits to wage an endless war

Hexware #1

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Image ⋅ 2022

Hexware #1
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In a corporate-ruled world where class inequality is greater than ever, a desperate, lonely populace is drawn to neo-spiritualism and hedge magic

Image ⋅ 2022

Art Brut #1
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A colorful, gonzo romp through art and art history that is equal parts police procedural, hyper-fantasy, and psychological thriller

Eternus #1

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Scout ⋅ 2022

Eternus #1
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Story concept by Andy Serkis - after the death of Zeus, his son Heracles must sober up to defend the lone witness of his father's death and bring them to justice

Scout ⋅ 2022

Azza the Barbed #1
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Marked with a bad omen, Azza was banished to a life of solitude to guard an ancient evil but upon its escape, she'll have to decide between saving her enemies or allowing her home to perish

Scout ⋅ 2022

Vanity Act #1
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The fourth chapter of the notorious Elizabeth Bathory's biopic graphic novel depicts the horrors of the century in which she lived

Scout ⋅ 2022

Red Winter: Fallout #1
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A man attempts to escape a city that wants him dead after a massacre at an oil refinery caused upheaval in the ranks of rival gangs

Scout ⋅ 2023

Bones of the Gods #1
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A young girl gets the adventure she wishes for when she finds a powerful bone shard that fell to earth decades ago when two gods destroyed each other during an epic battle

Darkland #1
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In the 24th-century, a young girl stalked by a notorious bounty hunter finds haven in an abandoned mall located somewhere in the remnants of America

BOOM! ⋅ 2022

Behold Behemoth #1
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The line between nightmare and waking life blurs when a man discovers that the monster from his dreams might just be a real, ancient beast that is bringing about the end of the world

Once Upon a Time at the End of the World #1

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A post-apocalyptic tale two people who form a unique love while trying to survive a planet ravaged by environmental catastrophe

Frank Miller Presents ⋅ 2022

Ancient Enemies #1
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Earth becomes the final battlefield for a centuries old war between two alien race but this final conflict becomes the unintentional breeding ground for a new generation of super powers

Scout ⋅ 2022

Forever Forward #1
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A scientist accidentally launches himself and his friends into a quantum time space where they must continue to travel into the future until they find the technology to make it back to their home timeline

Plush #1

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Plush #1
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The insanity begins when a man attending a furry convention stumbles upon a group of furries devouring a human

Re-Live ⋅ 2025

Coming Home #1
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Anthology of stories spotlighting mental health of military veterans created by the U.K. charity, Re-Live

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2022

Lord of the Jungle #1
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Tarzan series that tells a story of before the adventurer's birth

Aftershock ⋅ 2022

Fear of a Red Planet #1
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An interplanetary marshal's investigation of the murder of Mars' most hated man threatens to tear the martian colony apart

Sumerian ⋅ 2022

Purple Oblivion, The #1
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After finding a dominatrix's business card, a man finds himself in a situation that begins with a cult but ends with something much more sinister

Sumerian ⋅ 2022

Nobody's Girls #1
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A man lives a very normal life until he finds a strange video that leads him on a peculiar search for a missing girl

Red 5 ⋅ 2022

Atonement Bell #1
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A horror series about a grieving mother and son who find themselves caught in a conflict between a coven and an inner-city church

Frank Frazetta's Dawn Attack #1

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Five-issue limited series inspired by Frank Frazetta's painting 'Dawn Attack'

Hell To Pay #1
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A married couple indebted to the Shrouded College utilize the magic bestowed upon them to track down cursed coins known as the Devil's Dollar

[February 2023 - Seth McFarland (Family Guy) to adapt the Shrouded College for TV]

Door To Door / Night By Night #1

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A group of traveling salespeople discover a terrible secret that opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters hidden in every small town

Black Mask ⋅ 2023

Gangster Ass Barista #1
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A woman tries to leave behind her criminal past but her violent tendencies threaten to emerge while dealing with annoying customers and previous associates

Mad Cave ⋅ 2022

Nature's Labyrinth #1
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In a battle royale style game, eight violent felons will fight to the death on an island complex lined with traps and an ever-changing landscape designed by a man known only as Ahab