Dark Horse Books presents The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Library Edition Volume 1, a new hardcover collection of James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart’s LGBTQ+ horror-hero series The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. Written by Tynion and Brombal, illustrated by Goodhart, colored by Miquel Muerto, and lettered by Aditya Bidikar, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Library Edition collects volumes 1 and 2 of the critically acclaimed series, the prologue comic (previously collected in The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Volume 1), and The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Halloween Special for the first time.
Meet teenage mad scientist Christopher Chaos. For all his life, he knew he was different. His brilliant mind works in ways that defy logic and enable him to do things that push him beyond his peers. Unfortunately, these abilities have also caused great pain in his personal life–leading others to fear him and leaving Christopher with profound loneliness and guilt. Then, one day, something cracked. When the cute boy at high school turns out to be a deadly creature, Christopher finds himself in a world of monsters, heroes, and a cult of hunters out to kill them all.
As Christopher discovers the history of Monsterkind, he learns that he isn’t so alone in the world after all. As he makes friends and enemies, he uncovers secrets that lead him deeper into his own unknown past—secrets that keep the mad scientist inside of him questioning everything!
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos Library Edition Volume 1(360 pages, hardcover, 8” x 12.1875”) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on March 10 and 11, 2026. It is now available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop or bookstore for $59.99.
Open the door of Jack’s home to enter the world of Everything Dead & Dying with an early behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the heartbreaking pastoral horror western by acclaimed creators writer Tate Brombal and artist Jacob Phillips. This early sneak peek shares the process of making a sequence from the upcoming zombie miniseries coming from Tiny Onion and Image Comics; the pages show protagonist Jack reliving the last moments of his family’s life on what appears to be a normal morning…at first.
With a showcase of the process from original script pages, to penciled pages, to inked and washed pages, to the final pages, readers can get their first bite of the gorgeous and deadly new series. Everything Dead & Dying #1 hits shelves this September, with the Final Order Cutoff date for retailers to order this Monday, August 11.
Joined by first-time colorist Pip Martin and celebrated letterer Aditya Bidikar, Brombal and Phillips are bringing their respective expertise in both horror and westerns to the table to deliver a zombie story where genres bleed into each other in an utterly unique way. Fans of The Walking Dead, Essex County, and The Last of Us will love this original western horror series. In Everything Dead & Dying, Jack Chandler is the sole survivor of the zombie apocalypse in his rural farming community, but rather than eliminate them, he has chosen to continue living alongside the undead—including the husband and adopted daughter he fought so hard to have. But when his town is discovered by outsiders, Jack suddenly becomes the one thing standing in the way of his family and those who hope to kill them for good.
With an FOC date of Monday, August 11, Everything Dead & Dying #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 3.
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #2
Writer: James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal Artist: Isaac Goodhart Colorist: Miquel Muerto Letterer: Aditya Bidikar Cover Artist: Noah Dao
The monstrous new arc of the fan-favorite series continues!
What does Dr. Jekyll’s arrival mean for our hero, Christopher Chaos, and what exactly is his connection to Adam Frankenstein? Can the Monster Club pull together to help when they are constantly being pulled apart, or will the mysterious monster hunter—known only as HELBOUND–spell the end of them all . . . for good?
Each issue features a special 8-page flipped-book backup “Monsters in Love” story in the vein as EC Comics that are Christopher Chaos in-universe stories.
Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion present Red Book, a new four-issue miniseries from James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming. Similar to Tynion and Oeming’s Blue Book, Red Book investigates the history of UFOs, but this time in the communist countries of the Soviet Union and China. The series, written by Tynion, illustrated by Oeming, and lettered by Tom Napolitano, will also feature a different backup story in each issue. The first issue will include a backup story written and illustrated by Malachi Ward and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. It will also feature cover art by Oeming, Yuko Shimizu, Tyler Boss, and Dani.
Russia, 1961. Nine students die tragically under mysterious circumstances that will come to be known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. To this day, the actual cause of their deaths remains unknown, although some theorize the blame lies with visitors from beyond the stars…
Red Book #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on October 8, 2025. Issue #1 is now available to preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.
DC Pride 2025 #1 is a little different from the previous installments of DC Pride in that it’s not a collection of short stories featuring LGBTQ+ DC Comics characters, but is a single narrative centered around a gay bar that Alan Scott frequented in the 1930s and told predominantly from the POV of a new character named Ethan, who is a trans military veteran that ends up caught up a kind of multiversal/elemental saga. I applaud the scope of this comic book, which has big jam session energy as different characters end up in different pocket realities based on wishes they made at the gay bar or graffiti they scrawled. We get Apollo and Midnighter living in 1950s domestic bliss courtesy of Sam Maggs and Derek Charm, a single, psychiatric girl boss Harley Quinn from Maya Houston, Max Sarin, and Marissa Louise ; and a gorgeous sapphic romance between Jo Mullein and Nubia from Houston, Vita Ayala, and Vincent Cecil to name a few. The reading effect is like jumping from comic to comic and look at paths not trodden with some iconic queer characters and a few new or not so iconic ones.
As Tim Sheridan, Giulio Macaione, and Emilio Pilliu Alan Scott-centric frame story shows, fighting supervillains and having superpowers is a metaphor for being queer in DC Pride 2025. It might be tempting to give up and lie low, especially with the United States’ hard turn to fascism, and homophobia and transphobia promoted by folks in power, but Alan Scott, Ethan, and their companions’ actions in the comic act as a clarion call to resistance. The stuff with the Crimson Flame and Scott having his own Red Lantern is a little Geoff Johnsian for my taste, but it’s so cool to watch Alan Scott have a Sailor Moon type transformation sequence and return into action to help save the next generation of queer heroes symbolized by Ethan. I love Macaione’s use of greens to show a possible, idyllic future for Scott and a non-Red Lantern/Russian spy Johnny Ladd, but it’s a happiness based on a lie like the other possible futures in the book.
However, DC Pride 2025 isn’t all serious action and has a lot of humor and playfulness. Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore recontextualize Golden Age Z-list Wonder Woman villain Blue Snowman coming to terms with their gender fluidity alongside nonbinary superhero Envoy in one vignette. I love how they poke fun at the restrictions of the gender binary using the classic tropes of a superhero brawl, and how even well meaning cisgender people can be just plain annoying at times. It’s so cool seeing this kind of story and voice in a mainstream, corporate comic showing that nonbinary characters don’t just have to be righteous heroes, but can be kind of messy too. DC Pride 2025 really hits the spectrum of queer identities, including asexuality with Connor Hawke getting a short story where he resists his father’s reputation as a womanizer and just wants to live his own life. I have to give a special shout out to Philip Sevy’s art in this short sequence, which seems like it’s right out of the late 1990s period where he was member of the JLA. Both the visual and character variety of DC Pride 2025 makes it an engaging read, and the book is a testament to the active work that DC Comics has done to cultivate LGBTQ+ characters in the past decade or so. (I need a monthly Midnighter and/or Apollo book though.)
After a wild and wacky cosmic adventure set in the DC Multiverse, DC Pride 2025 wraps up with a beautiful nonfiction storyfrom Jenny Blake and Sara Soler about Blake coming out as a transgender woman earlier this year. It has gorgeous soft lines and a refreshing color palette to go with Jenny Blake’s honest and humorous script about how old comics about Clark Kent switching genders had an influence on her own gender identity journey. I love how Soler inserts different DC characters into the panel to blur the line between fantasy and non-fiction with Blake’s most famous co-creation Black Lightning making an appearance as well as transgender superheroine Dreamer, who shares coffee with Blake. The story shows that you’re never too old to be your authentic self and hints at a longer graphic memoir, which I hope Jenny Blake gets to realize at DC or elsewhere.
DC Pride 2025 is an ambitious comic with summer crossover energy that tells an epic story with DC’s LGBTQ+ characters while still taking time to dig into their individual hopes, fears, and dreams. It’s a showcase of queer representation on the page and on the issue’s creative teams, and Blake and Sara Soler’s memoir is a beautiful coda and rallying cry to continue to be queer and fearless in an increasingly dark and hateful world.
Story: Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston Story: Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, Josh Trujillo, Jenny Blake Art: Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione Art: Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, Philip Sevy, Sara Soler, Alex Moore, Skyler Patridge Colors: Eren Angiolini, Jordie Bellaire, Triona Farrell, Marissa Louise Letters: Aditya Bidikar, Frank Cvetkovic, Lucas Gattoni, Ariana Maher, Morgan Martinez, Jodie Troutman Story: 8.9 Art: 9.3 Overall: 9.1 Recommendation: Buy
DC Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart’s hit LGBTQ+ horror coming-of-age series The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos returns this June with a new terrifying story arc, Children of the Night. Dark Horse can now announce that each issue of Children of the Night will also feature a special 8-page flip-book backup story called “Monsters in Love.” The first issue’s story will be written and illustrated by Bradley Clayton and lettered by Aditya Bidikar, with stories by Chloe Brailsford, Marie Enger, and K Czap featured in future issues. Each story is a standalone story blending horror and romance in the style of classic EC comic anthologies, from the in-universe comic read by our hero Christopher Chaos. Along with covers by Noah Dao, Gabriel Hernández Walta, Michael Dialynas, and Sweeney Boo, issue #1 also includes back cover art illustrated by V. Gagnon.
A new school year begins for Christopher Chaos and his friends as he finds himself divided from his mentor, Adam Frankenstein, and searching for answers outside of any textbook. But when a dangerous new monster arrives in New Briar City with a mysterious hunter on his trail, a strange case develops that only Christopher can solve! Will the Monster Club survive their latest foe, or will they be torn apart–piece by bloody piece? This issue introduces the Chaosverse’s Dr. Henry Jekyll and a brand-new monster hunter known only as Helbound!
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on June 18, 2025 and is now available for pre-order from your local comic shop for $4.99.
Tiny Onion has announced the next addition to their Artists in Residence initiative, welcoming longtime collaborator writer/artist Tyler Boss. Boss joins the inaugural class of Artists in Residence, Jordie Bellaire and Aditya Bidikar.
The goal of the Artist in Residence initiative is to build a better version of the “exclusive” contract, by not only providing talent with stability and guaranteed work, but also celebrating them as multi-hyphenate creators in their own right and crucial members of the Tiny Onion ecosystem.
In addition to working on titles for Tiny Onion, Tyler’s upcoming original series with artist Adriano Turtulici, You’ll Do Bad Things, has been developed and packaged by Tiny Onion, to be published at Image Comics in March 2025.
This addition brings the total roster of Tiny Onion Artists in Residence to three, with more announcements to follow in the months to come.
Boss will be present at Emerald City Comic Con March 6th-9th, 2025, hosting signings at the Tiny Onion Booth 20700 in Artist Alley.
Venture deep through endless drifts of snow, through evergreen treelines tinkling with hoarfrost and rime. And then? Venture many miles more. And then maybe, possibly, improbably you will see lights. And dancing. And mirth. You may be asked to join. Or maybe who (or what!) you’ve found wants something far more mischievous than to sing and revel.
Story: Patrick McHale, J.K., Sweeney Boo, James Tynion IV, Molly Mendoza, Ryan Andrews, K. Wroten, Grim Wilkins Art: Jim Campbell, Sweeney Boo, Jensine Eckwall, Molly Mendoza, Ryan Andrews, K. Wroten, Grim Wilkins Letterer: Jim Campbell, Aditya Bidikar, Clayton Cowles, Ryan Andrews, K. Wroten, Grim Wilkins
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Ambrose Everett Hall worked his entire life to cheat death… but what if he actually succeeded? Trapped in the labyrinthine tunnels below his tomb-like mansion with the ghostly remnants of his grisly experiments hot on their trail, Janie and Vesper are about to find out.
Story: James Tynion IV Art: Christian Ward Letterer: Aditya Bidikar
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When the larger-than-life, brilliant, and enigmatic Abrose Everett Hall died, he cast a pall over all those he knew — and no one suffered more than his former assistant and lover, Felix. Now an old man, Felix has dedicated the rest of his days to solving the paranormal puzzle of the spectregraph — his paramour’s life’s work, interrupted. But what is Felix’s connection to the Thanatos Group, and how do Janie and Vesper factor into his plans?
Story: James Tynion IV Art: Christian Ward Letterer: Aditya Bidikar
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