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Preview: Flash Gordon Quarterly #8

Flash Gordon Quarterly #8

(W) Molly Jones, Bill Masuku, Eliot Rahal (A) Alden Kaye, Bill Masuku, Andrea Mutti

Princess Aura gets the spotlight!

One day, the daughter of the tyrant Ming the Merciless will betray her father and join the armies of Mongo in revolt alongside Earth hero Flash Gordon. But before she was a sharpshooting assassin on the side of good, Princess Aura was a rebellious, action-hungry teenager with an uncorrupted heart. 2025 Talent Search winners Molly Jones, Alden Kaye, Victor Medina, and Domo Arce tell the story of Aura’s first frontline mission!

Then, award-winning Zimbabwean writer & artist Bill Masuku (Forbes Africa Under 30; creator of Captain South Africa and Disney’s Runeless) delivers a neon-soaked, Africa-inspired space epic in a “flash fiction” like you’ve never seen before!

And NYT-lauded writer Eliot Rahal teams up with artist Andrea Mutti for a story that gets inside Ming the Merciless’s black heart — literally! The most exciting installation yet of the Flash Gordon Quarterly!

Flash Gordon Quarterly #8

Z2 and Sublime Announce a Long Beach Release Party for $5.00 At the Door in August

Celebrate the sounds of SoCal’s favorite sons with this official Sublime graphic novel! Xanadu meets Superbad in this heartfelt anthology of Sublime legends brought to life by Ryan Cady (Green LanternPoppy’s Inferno), Audrey Mok (Archie), Alex Diotto (Youth), Hayden Sherman (Angel & Spike), Logan Faerber (‘Namwolf), alongside rising stars Bill MasukuRobert Ahmad, and Julianne Griepp. Featuring a brand new covers by Sublime logo creator Opie Ortiz and DJ Product ©1969! Plus: the one and only Lou-Dog! Released in finer comic shops and bookstores everywhere on August 4!

Official Release Party:
2:00 PM- 3:30 PM Saturday August 14 (@ Free Comic Book Day)
Atomic Basement Comics
400 E. 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802

Z2 Comics Announces Sublime: $5 At the Door

Z2 Comics continues to roll out news of some of their most ambitious projects yet, with the announcement of the Ryan Cady-written graphic novel chronicling the misadventures of one of the most defining bands of the last three decades, the Long Beach, reggae-punk institution, Sublime!

The laid-back Long Beach trio spawned an entire genre-fusing reggae grooves, punk grittiness, ska energy, back-porch folk introspection, and hip-hop swagger. 

Those disparate sounds first collided back in 1988, when the gregarious Bradley Nowell paired up with a sturdy, simpatico rhythm section—bassist Eric Wilson and drummer Bud Gaugh—and quickly amassed a cult following in the SoCal scene.  Sublime found their niche at house parties: uniting Rastas, surfers, skaters, frat boys, cholos and ink-covered outcasts with a free-flowing melting pot approach that, much like the region itself, was impossible to pigeonhole.  The band goes from playing backyard parties and selling cassettes out of the trunks of their cars to creating an entirely new and revolutionary blend of chart-topping music.

Xanadu meets Superbad in this heartfelt anthology of Sublime legends brought to life by Ryan CadyAudrey MokAlex DiottoHayden ShermanLogan Faerber, rising stars Bill MasukuRobert Ahmad, and more. Featuring brand-new cover artwork by Sublime family members Opie Ortiz and DJ Product ©1969! Plus: the one and only Lou-Dog!

The Sublime: $5 At the Door graphic novel clocks in at 120 pages and will be released in a standard soft and hardcover editions in comic shops and bookstores alike in June 2021, with a special deluxe edition, and highly limited super deluxe edition available for preorder now exclusively through the Z2 website! Deluxe and super deluxe edition include a special first-time vinyl edition of the Doin’ Time EP, unavailable elsewhere, as well as exclusive prints, Lou-Dog toy, and more!