Who would have guessed that Humpty Dumpty was actually a classic whodunit? BOOM! Studios has announced the October debut of Fiction Squad, a high-stakes detective story set in the mythical land of Fablewood from Paul Jenkins and Ramon Bachs. The publisher picked up Jenkins’ previous stories set in Fablewood with Fairy Quest: Outlaws and Fairy Quest: Outcasts, and following the successful funding of Jenkins’ Kickstarter campaign for Fiction Squad, the publisher has picked up this series as well. Fans of Fables and Once Upon a Time will enjoy these nursery rhymes gone wrong.

Fablewood is a pretty dangerous place, but no area is more dangerous than the City of Rimes, deep in the heart of the Children’s Realm. After transferring in from the Realm of Mystery, a failed detective from an unfinished prose novel, Frankie Mack, is about to uncover a conspiracy that could unmake storytelling itself. After Humpty Dumpty is pushed to crack and Jack (of Jack and Jill) goes AWOL, Frankie and his partner, Simple Simon, are put on the case.

Fiction Squad #1 arrives in comic shops on October 1st with a cover price of $3.99 under Diamond Order Code AUG141153. The first issue ships with a main cover by series artist Ramon Bachs and two incentive covers, one by Michael Dialynas and the other by Humberto Ramos.