Indies 2022

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Dark Horse Oct 2022

Night of the Ghoul #1

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An obsessive horror fan stumbles upon what was thought to be destroyed footage of a film destined to be as classic as Dracula but the frames may have captured a monster that is no mere myth
[October 2022 - optioned by 20th Century Studios one day prior to the issue going on sale]
ONI Jul 2022

Blink #1

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A girl is haunted by a childhood she can't remember until a website streaming closed-circuit footage of rooms in an abandoned building causes memories to emerge
Dark Horse Oct 2022

Dead Mall #1

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For a group of teenagers, a night of exploration in an abandoned mall becomes a shopping spree from hell
[April 2026 - optioned for film by Not The Funeral Home production company with Michael Varrati (The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula) writing the screenplay
Avatar Jun 2025

Do Anything #1

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An examination of comics though the eyes of a robotic Jack Kirby head
Inspired by the Bleeding Cool website's ongoing 'Do Anything' column by Warren Ellis
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Story about a scientist attempting to determine why human bones are growing inside inanimate objects
A couple succumb to a malevolent force found in an abandoned camping trailer that sends them into the unforgiving wilds of Joshua Tree National Park
Image Jul 2022

Hollows, The #1

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A scientist attempts to find a cure for humanity in a dystopian Japan where spectral, once-human husks prey on the unfortunates who couldn't find salvation in the skyscraper-like trees that now dominate the decimated landscape
Image Jul 2022

Rogues Gallery #1

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A home invasion thriller that follows a TV superhero actress as she is terrorized by a group of intruders cosplaying her day job's archvillains
[September 2022 - Don Cheadle's production company Radical Act to adapt Rogues' Gallery into a TV series]
Aftershock Sep 2022

Last Line #1

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A simple city employee gets caught up in a conspiracy that reveals an interplanetary travel system buried deep beneath the London Underground
IDW Oct 2022

Earthdivers #1

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A group of apocalypse survivors who discover a time travel portal in a cave theorize the precise point in history when everything took a turn for the worst and resolve to rectify the problem by traveling to 1492 to kill Christopher Columbus
[August 2022 - the writer said during an interview that this series has been optioned by 20th Century Television]
Floating World Comics Oct 2022

Sea of Time #1

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This visionary poem explores the nature and indigenous ecological traditions that influenced G.W. Steller who recalls his travels throughout Siberia and the North Pacific in 1746
Dark Horse Sep 2022

Roadie #1

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A former heavy metal roadie must return to the backroads of America to do a job he thought he'd retired from...performing exorcisms, but this time, it is to save his daughter
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Flawed #1

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A psychiatrist uses words to solve her patients problems during the day but at night, takes a more deadly approach which results in attracting the attention of an immortal serial killer
AWA Upshot Sep 2022

Ginn #1

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After his master sets him free, a hard-drinking, foul mouthed genie spirals into an existential crisis until he falls for a girl who gives his life meaning
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Vanish #1

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A man who achieved mythical hero status as a boy is now besieged by paranoia-inducing nightmares that have wrecked his life but the arrival of a superhero team called the Prestige may prove his fears are justified
Dark Horse Sep 2022

Maskerade #1

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Four-issue limited series by filmmaker Kevin Smith about a popular social media star who must change her appearance to exact revenge on her brother's murderer
Image Sep 2022

Least We Can Do #1

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In a military-occupied and socially oppressed United Kingdom, a young woman fights for her ideas of revolution as a mysterious magical power arises from the debris of a nearly destroyed world
Dark Horse Aug 2022

Survival Street #1

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In a dystopian future, a group of 'edutainers' become a band of mercenaries with the goal of protecting and educating kids in the crumbling, corporate war zone of New Best America
Lesser Evils Aug 2022

Emmett #1

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After a bad break-up, a young woman conjures a golem from clay who helps her cope and also seek vengeance for her broken heart
Dark Horse Jul 2022

Mind MGMT: Bootleg #1

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The former leader of Mind MGMT recruits a team of forgotten agents to rebuild the organization, bend reality, and go to war with a competing agency
First publication from Matt Kindt's 'Flux House' imprint
Ablaze Jul 2022

Promethee 13:13 #1

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Prequel to the graphic novel Promethee - a woman plagued by apocalyptic visions since being abducted by a UFO as a child is now hunted by a cult who believe she can ensure their survival
Black Caravan Jul 2022

Behemoth #1

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A woman is horrified to realize she is turning into a monster and with few options remaining, enlists to be trained as a weapon in the government-sponsored Project Behemoth
Image Jun 2022

Public Domain #1

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Originally published digitally through substack, written and illustrated by Chip Zdarsky
A series about the world's greatest metafictional comic character, The Domain that addresses the battle between comic publishers and corporations vs creators
Image Aug 2022

20th Century Men #1

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A Soviet "iron" hero, a superpowered American president, an insane cyborg soldier and an Afghan woman bent on building a better life for her people are strange yet familiar beings in a story that mixes history, politics, and comic book mythology
Swoldier Publishing Jul 2022

Isolation #1

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Horror and fantasy collide in a series about a researcher investigating a series of murders that occurred in three time periods - 1869, 1919 and 1949
Limited print run of 7,500 copies including variants
Dark Horse Aug 2022

Minor Threats #1

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A group of small time bad guys band together to take down an A-list supervillain to ease tensions in the city that began after the murder of a beloved hero's sidekick
Written by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum
[July 2024 - a live-action series is in development for Netflix]
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Dead Lucky #1

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A veteran realizes that she has gained powers to control electrical currents which may come in handy in the city now patrolled by peacekeeping robots and run by big tech
Aftershock Jul 2022

Brother of All Men #1

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In 1928, a veteran of the Great War and part-time private eye travels to remote Canada to retrieve his estranged brother from a cult but struggles to resist the charismatic leader
Ablaze Aug 2022

Elles #1

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An all ages series about a girl who successfully makes friends at a new school but secretly has a colorful mix of personalities which come out when she least expects it
AWA Upshot Jul 2022

Absolution #1

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While her actions are live-streamed to a fickle public, a mercenary is given a month to atone for her misdeeds before the bombs implanted in her brain explode
Mad Cave Studios Jun 2022

Potions Inc. #1

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A young man working in his family's potion shop sets off on the quest he has always desired after a powerful artifact is stolen from his parents
Image Jul 2022

Impact Winter #1

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One-shot prequel to the Audible audio drama about a post-apocalyptic vampire world where the sun has been blotted out by a comet crashing to earth
[February 2025 - Netflix acquired the rights to develop a series adaptation of Impact Winter with Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games) directing and script by Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans)
Coffin Comics Jun 2022

Tales of the Coffinverse #1

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Anthology of stories featuring a team of outlaw superheroes who fight the supernatural, a space pirate who sails the haunted galaxy, a wild west loner who wields demonic guns and Captain Death, super soldier of 1945's World War Hell
Vault Jun 2022

Mindset #1

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When an introverted tech geek accidentally discovers mind control, he and his friends do something unexpected - they put the science into an app to help users break their technology addiction
[June 2024 - Don Cheadle’s production company This Radicle Act to develop Mindset as a TV series with producer Boat Rocker (Orphan Black: Echoes)]
Dark Horse Jun 2022

Lonesome Hunters #1

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An aged monster hunter and a young girl set out on a road trip to battle ancient evils in a story that explores how early traumas can haunt us, even in old age

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