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Black Mask ⋅ 2022

Rogue State #1
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A freedom fighter emerges from the chaotic political and social turmoil of America to lead the nation toward a sovereign society

Far Cry: Esperanza's Tears #1

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Comic book series set in the world of the video game franchise

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 2022

Magic Order 3, The #1
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Six-issue limited series that introduces the Asian chapter of the Magic Order

American Mythology Productions ⋅ 2024

Florida Man #1
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The comic book personification of all those wild and weird Florida Man viral videos and memes

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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

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 ⋅ 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

Aftershock ⋅ 2022

06 Protocol, The #1
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A mother and daughter are forced to confront family secrets that arise when the family's patriarch is murdered by a secret government program

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Above Snakes #1
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A Deadwood-style Western series where a man with a talking vulture seeks vengeance for his murdered wife

Comics Experience Publishing ⋅ 2022

Saga of a Doomed Universe #1
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The world's heroes have been murdered except for one costumed loser who is now Earth's last hope

IDW ⋅ 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 ⋅ 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

Roadie #1

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Dark Horse ⋅ 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

Flawed #1

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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

ONI ⋅ 2022

Pink Lemonade #1
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Previously published independently through crowdfunding - Pink Lemonade is a motorcycle-riding superhero starting out and finding her place in the world

Ginn #1

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AWA Upshot ⋅ 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

Briar #1

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BOOM! ⋅ 2022

Briar #1
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A brutal reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale

Vanish #1

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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

Stuff of Nightmares #1
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Four-issue limited series written by R.L. Stine that reimagines the classic tale of the Re-animator

IDW ⋅ 2022

Crashing #1
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A medical specialist whose focus is on patients with superpowers is at a crossroads between saving the city's greatest hero and worst villain

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2022

Vampirella: Mindwarp #1
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A powerful sorceress steals Vampirella's body in a bid for eternal life but ignites an adventure across time and space through Vampirella's history and dark origins

Dark Horse ⋅ 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

Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

Castle Full of Blackbirds #1
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Hellboy Universe limited series featuring Sara May Blackburn who seeks answers as to the origin of her mysterious powers

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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

Bone Orchard: Black Feathers #1

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Two best friends and avid gamers must fight to overcome an evil darkness that blends the line between reality and their fantasy world

Antioch #1

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Antioch #1
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A king from a lost continent enters the world of man with a purpose, to stop us from killing the planet

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2022

Ninjettes #1
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Series spun-off from the Jennifer Blood title

Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

Shock Shop #1
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Anthology of horror stories hosted by a creepy comic shop owner who runs a haunted store

Dark Horse ⋅ 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

Action Journalism #1
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A reporter attempts to infiltrate an invading alien fleet to uncover their secrets, land the interview of the century and avert interstellar warfare

Evanescence: Echoes from the Void #1

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Adaptations of the band Evanescence's musical catalog - issue #1 inspired by the song 'Bitter Truth'

Emmett #1

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Lesser Evils ⋅ 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 ⋅ 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

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 ⋅ 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

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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

Shirtless Bear-Fighter #1

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Second installment of the action-comedy series that debuted in 2017

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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 ⋅ 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 ⋅ 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]

Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

Parasomnia: Dreaming God #1
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Volume two where a man's search for his missing son shifts worlds from the nightmarish Lovecraftian dreamscape to a cyberpunk metropolis where a ruthless cult continues to plague him

007 #1

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Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2022

007 #1
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Bond tracks down the shadowy organization known only as 'Myrmidon'

Deadliest Bouquet, The #1

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Three sisters must set aside long-time rivalries to solve their mother's murder

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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 ⋅ 2022

Samurai Doggy #1
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After the Fourth War of the Sun, Doggy was left for dead but now seeks revenge against the greatest empire of machines and robots that has ever existed

Aftershock ⋅ 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

Kingdom Come: Deliverance #1
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Prequel story leading up to events that play out in the video game Kingdom Come: Deliverance

AWA Upshot ⋅ 2022

Sacrament #1
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In the year 3000, a disgraced priest is called into action to perform an exorcism on a remote space colony and will encounter the devil

Until My Knuckles Bleed: One Deadly Shot #1

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From the writer of Netflix's 'Polar' - a former 90s superhero seeks redemption by confessing one of the darkest stories of the most extreme of superhero ages about his old team, the CIA and a buried creature in the heart of Europe

Wynd: The Throne In The Sky #1

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Second entry in the Wynd series, created by James Tynion and Michael Dialynas