Image Comics has announced that upcoming military anthology, True War Stories—edited by Alex De Campi and Iraq War veteran, Khai Krumbhaar, and with art from Peter Krause, PJ Holden, Skylar Patridge, Dave Acosta, and more—will hit shelves in April. It will feature new design touches, new cover art by Richard Johnson/Newsillustrator, and be available in trade paperback.

True War Stories was originally launched on Kickstarter in 2020 to eventually be released by Z2 in 2021.

Proceeds from the book will be donated to service-related charities chosen by the contributors as being personally meaningful to them: Objective Zero Foundation, Air Force Assistance Fund, the USO, Armed Services Arts Partnership, Paws & Effect, and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation.

True War Stories collects 15 true tales of American service people overseas and brings them to life in sequential storytelling form. They range from hilarious and heartwarming to heroic and sobering.

It focuses on the individual experience of people on deployment: the stories they want to tell. Nearly every branch of the military is represented, and the stories are told by a mixture of active duty and retired soldiers. This isn’t about politics or American foreign policy, it’s about the people in uniform who tend to get forgotten in all that.

The tales include that of Vietcong sappers who attack a fuel point—only to be foiled by a very alert German Shepherd, a young Airman coping with post 9/11 paranoia in Okinawa, a team of SEALs rescue a kidnapped girl in the Philippines, Army interpreters in Iraq battle their toughest foe: the rats infesting Saddam’s palace, and more.

True War Stories trade paperback (ISBN: 978-1-5343-2812-9, Lunar Code 0225IM452) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, April 30 and independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, May 6.