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Preview: The Ends

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The Ends TPB

Written by David and Maria Lapham
Art by David Lapham
Colors by Bill Crabtree
Cover by Lewis Larosa
$19.99 | 160 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF FEBRUARY 9, 2026 | IN STORES MARCH 11, 2026

It’s 1985 and Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez are deeply in love. But Jennifer can never reveal their relationship to their family. The Ends are considered by some to be traditional, but by most, they are known as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted.

Her brother, Jack, is the worst of the bunch and a full blown, hardcore skinhead. During the summer, when Jennifer travels to Oceanside, a retirement home for veterans, to be with Angelo under the guise of visiting her grandparents, Jack discovers their relationship.

Jack is crushed by the betrayal. He decides it’s time to take a stand. Jack organizes a rally in the peaceful town of Oceanside. Soon the town is overrun by neo-Nazi youths. The police struggle to maintain control, leaving the only hope with the aging World War 2, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans who reside in the town.

The Ends TPB

David and Maria Lapham, Bill Crabtree, and Lewis Larosa’s The Ends gets an Extended Edition with New Bonus Material

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The Ends TPB

Written by David and Maria Lapham
Art by David Lapham
Colors by Bill Crabtree
Cover by Lewis Larosa
$19.99 | 160 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF FEBRUARY 9, 2026 | IN STORES MARCH 11, 2026

It’s 1985 and Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez are deeply in love. But Jennifer can never reveal their relationship to their family. The Ends are considered by some to be traditional, but by most, they are known as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted.

Her brother, Jack, is the worst of the bunch and a full blown, hardcore skinhead. During the summer, when Jennifer travels to Oceanside, a retirement home for veterans, to be with Angelo under the guise of visiting her grandparents, Jack discovers their relationship.

Jack is crushed by the betrayal. He decides it’s time to take a stand. Jack organizes a rally in the peaceful town of Oceanside. Soon the town is overrun by neo-Nazi youths. The police struggle to maintain control, leaving the only hope with the aging World War 2, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans who reside in the town.

The Ends TPB

Bad Idea ups the promotion with the “World’s First VHS Comic Book” slab with The Hab: The VHS

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The Hab: The VHS

Bad Idea is making news again with it’s rather unique limited releases for it’s comics, this time The Hab: The VHS! For a long time, the future of comics was digital. But, we’ve seen that digital doesn’t mean you get to keep it forever.

So Bad Idea is going ANALOG!

Bad Idea has built a brand-new, one-of-a-kind comic book viewing experience, The Hab: The VHS, the world’s first VHS Comic Book. And it’s yours to own, on tape, PHYSICALLY.

Filmed, edited, and directed by an auteur horror movie director, The Hab: The VHS shows The Hab painstakingly shot page by page and set to an original horror score. It’s a whole new way to experience the medium.

And just like the infamous Cul-De-Sac #1 Impaled Edition — ONLY 36 EXIST.

The Hab: The VHS Special Features:

  • A custom, hard-plastic clamshell case with exclusive front cover art by Eisner Award-winner, David Lapham
  • A signature from THE HAB creator, Eisner Award-nominated writer Joshua Dysart
  • A bonus, ultra-rare edition of THE HAB comic book, with a micro print run of just 36 copies
  • A limited edition BAD IDEA hologram sticker certification

Timed to arrive with The Hab #1 on April 8th, the elevated horror series that stars perhaps the greatest line-up of virtuoso talents ever assembled,

Eisner Award–nominated writer Joshua Dysart (Vertigo’s UNKNOWN SOLIDER)!
Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham (STRAY BULLETS)!
Eisner Award-winning artist Bill Sienkiewicz (NEW MUTANTS)!
Eisner Award–nominated colorist Bill Crabtree (INVINCIBLE)!
Eisner Award-winning colorist Matt Hollingsworth (BATMAN)!
Eisner Award–nominated cover artist Charlie Adlard (THE WALKING DEAD)!
Eisner Award-nominated superstar artist Jacob Phillips (THAT TEXAS BLOOD)!

These VHS comic book collectibles are available now on a first come, first served basis. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.

To secure one before they are all gone simply:

  • Contact your local comic shop and pre-order your THE HAB: THE VHS. Tell your shop to email BAD IDEA at siena@badideacorp.com and confirm an order of 250 or more copies of THE HAB #1 (lunar code: 0226BD0546) before Final Order Cutoff, Monday March 9th.
  • The first 36 stores to pledge will secure one (1) exclusive THE HAB: THE VHS
  • All pledges must be authenticated by BAD IDEA.

The Hab descends from Joshua Dysart, David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Crabtree, and Matt Hollingsworth this April

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The Hab #1

Written by JOSHUA DYSART
Art by DAVID LAPHAM & BILL SIENKIEWICZ
COLORS by BILL CRABTREE & MATT HOLLINGSWORTH
Cover by CHARLIE ADLARD
$5.99 | 40 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FOC MARCH 9, 2026 | ON SALE APRIL 8, 2026

Mercurial billionaire Tuttle Barrows prepared for everything—even the end of the world. Years ago he wielded his immense power and fortune to build a massive sealed habitat atop a once protected ancient freshwater glacial cave. Now, as the world outside unravels, Barrows, his family, and a handpicked inner circle retreat to their final sanctuary—a place built to outlast civilization itself.

But something was already there. Beneath layers of ice, in the ancient freshwater vault, a long-dormant danger lurks. While hallucinations twist their reality and violence spreads like a fever they must descend deeper or risk their last refuge becoming a tomb.

The Hab #1

Bad Idea teases The Hab featuring Joshua Dysart, David Lapham, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Crabtree, Matt Hollingsworth, and cover by Charlie Adlard

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Bad Idea has teased a new horror series, The Hab, debuting in April 2026.

The Hab features writer Joshua Dysart, art by David Lapham and Bill Sienkiewicz, color by Bill Crabtree, and color by Matt Hollingsworth. The first issue features a cover by Charlie Adlard which you can see below along with interior artwork from the series.

In the tease, Bad Idea described it as a “pulse-pounding elevated horror story of primordial origins.”

Bad Idea reveals David and Maria Lapham’s The Ends for March 2026

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THE ENDS TPB

Written by DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM
Art by DAVID LAPHAM
Colors by BILL CRABTREE
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
$19.99 | 144 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF FEBRUARY 9, 2026 | IN STORES MARCH 11, 2026

This July, Bad Idea launched its first-ever trade paperback, The Hero Trade: Hero for Sale TPB to widespread critical acclaim. There’s only one book that Bad Idea thought could follow it, The Ends!

From the mind of comic book national treasure and living legend, David Lapham, in partnership with the incredible talents of his wife, Maria Lapham, comes a series critics have described as a true modern masterpiece.

Witness their artistic triumph reborn in breathtaking color thanks to the talents of superstar colorist, Bill Crabtree and now jam-packed with extended sequences, new connective material, additional pages, brand-new scenes, patched panels, rewritten dialogue, and more!

It’s 1985 and Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez are deeply in love. But Jennifer can never reveal their relationship to their family. The Ends are considered by some to be traditional, but by most, they are known as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted.

Her brother, Jack, is the worst of the bunch and a full blown, hardcore skinhead. During the summer, when Jennifer travels to Oceanside, a retirement home for veterans, to be with Angelo under the guise of visiting her grandparents, Jack discovers their relationship.

Jack is crushed by the betrayal. He decides it’s time to take a stand. Jack organizes a rally in the peaceful town of Oceanside. Soon the town is overrun by neo-Nazi youths. The police struggle to maintain control, leaving the only hope with the aging World War 2, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans who reside in the town.

Experience a first-look at this stunning new collection below. Secure your copy by pre-ordering with your local comic shop before Final Order Cutoff on Monday, February 9th! The Ends comes to shops March 11, 2026.

The Ends

Preview: The Adventures of Lumen N. #3

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The Adventures of Lumen N. #3

Writer: James Robinson
Artist: Phil Hester, Marc Deering
Colorist: Bill Crabtree
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Cover Artist: Phil Hester

Lumen has now fully embraced her destiny as the granddaughter of Captain Nemo as well as all the adventure that comes with it. But this new life still has more surprises in store, including Lumen’s first encounter with Nemo’s legendary submarine the Nautilus along with its storied crew. But with Robur the Conqueror revealed as the villain behind everything, can the Nautilus out-run Robur’s own deadly flying vessel the Albatross as they both race to Paris, with Lumen and Nemo intent on saving the city while Robur plans for its destruction.

The Adventures of Lumen N. #3

Preview: The Adventures of Lumen N. #2

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The Adventures of Lumen N. #2

Writer: James Robinson
Artist: Phil Hester
Colorist: Marc Deering
Letterer: Bill Crabtree
Cover Artist: Phil Hester

The adventure truly begins for young Lumen, now that she’s learned she’s the granddaughter of the legendary Captain Nemo. But what of her long-missing father, Nemo’s son? To learn the answer to his disappearance, Lumen and Nemo must both face heartbreak along with the peril of an amazing and deadly steam-powered palace. All this, as they uncover who’s behind their current dangers . . . an evil mastermind intent on conquest.

The Adventures of Lumen N. #2

Preview: The Adventures of Lumen N. #1

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The Adventures of Lumen N. #1

Writer: James Robinson
Penciller: Phil Hester
Inker: Marc Deering
Colorist: Bill Crabtree
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Cover Artist: Phil Hester

The year is 1901 and our heroine Lumen is a precocious 13-year-old with many questions about her life. Why has her father been gone for years? Why must she learn so many languages and fighting techniques and what’s with all the lessons in seafaring? Then an attack on her home by a horde of steam-punk assassins delivers the first glimmer of an answer, when Lumen’s savior reveals himself as her grandfather, the legendary Captain Nemo, one of the greatest characters in Victorian science fiction literature. A brand-new world of steam-punk adventure and thrills is about to open up for Lumen as she connects with the grandfather she never knew while together they take on a cabal of evil masterminds, intent on world domination . . . a world full of heroes and villains from Victorian adventure and fantasy fiction.

The Adventures of Lumen N. #1

Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games is a great guide to the packed history

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Roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons, in which players take the roles of heroes in their own story, have solidly moved from the geek fringes to the mainstream, beloved by celebrities and inspiring hit podcasts and massively successful sales in games, comics, and hobby shops.

The story of the tabletop’s triumph even in our digital age begins in the day of actual sword-wielding warriors, leading right up to the fireball-casting avatars of today. In Gamemasters: The Comic Book History of Roleplaying Games, New York Times-bestselling and award-winning comics creators Fred Van Lente and Tom Fowler take you on an incredible journey from the mists of the past to the screen-lit present, showing not just how these games work and why we love them, but what they can tell us about ourselves.

Story: Fred Van Lente
Art: Tom Fowler
Color: Bill Crabtree
Letterer: Fred Van Lente

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Zeus Comics
Amazon

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