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Speed Racer: Tales From the Road – A Wrench in Plans features three entertaining stories

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Speed Racer: Tales from the Road is an all-new Quarterly release featuring a one-shot tale and backup shorts that expand the universe of Speed Racer! Before Speed, there was Pops. From hot-rod racer to new father, Pops’ grease-stained hands built the Racer family legacy through triumph, tragedy, and invention. Witness the origins of the Auto Jacks, the heartbreak of Rex, and the lessons that shaped Speed’s future in this heartfelt, high-octane one-shot! Also featuring a Dante Ferno story where he pays the price for total domination!

Story: Richard Ashley Hamilton, Derrick Acosta, Joseph Sieracki
Art: Pablo Andres, Travis Hymel, Butch Mapa
Color: Rebecca Nalty, Juancho, Marco Pelandra
Letterer: Buddy Beaudoin, Nathan Kempf

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SDCC 2025: Black Mask announces a Calexit Benefit Comic Supporting Immigrant Families Impacted by ICE Raids

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Masked men snatching people off the street, innocent people shipped to third world prisons, parents and children separated with no way to reconnect – they sound like plots of a dystopian comic book, not reality. Now new comic, Calexit: Battle of San Onofre #1 from Black Mask Studios, is using its fictional story to help these victims and raise money for the families impacted by the Trump Administration’s ICE Raids.

Premiering at San Diego Comic Con, profits from the Battle of San Onofre will be donated to Alliance San Diego’s Immigrant Relief Fund. 

Writer Matteo Pizzolo teams with artist Butch Mapa to create the new Calexit story, which tells the story of friends radicalized by a DHS raid at their workplace – seemingly ripped from today’s headlines, the story was written last year before the current wave of deportations.

Calexit debuted in July 2017 and sold through seven-printings before launching a line of spinoffs. In addition to Calexit: Battle of San Onofre #1, San Diego Comic Con also marks the debut of new volume Calexit: The Battle of Universal City #1.

Calexit: Battle of San Onofre #1

Preview: DC Horror Presents #1 (of 3)

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DC Horror Presents #1 (of 3)

(W) Swanthula Boulet, Dracmorda Boulet, David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick (A) Cat Staggs, Butch Mapa, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Kristian Rossi
In Shops: Oct 23, 2024
SRP: $3.99

Bones crunching, worms munching, blood spattering…these are a few of our favorite things! From some of the most dark and cunning minds in horror comes DC Horror Presents… a new collection of gruesome tales set in the DCU. With stories penned by some of our favorite names in horror, this anthology will have die-hard horror fans quaking with fear!

DC Horror Presents #1 (of 3)

Archie’s Dark Magic Universe expands with Kardak the Mystic

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Superheroics, magic, and cosmic horror converge in Kardak the Mystic, an all-new one-shot from Archie Comics in August! The new story by writer Joe Corallo and artist Butch Mapa reboots one of Archie’s oldest characters and adds to a burgeoning dark fantasy corner of the publisher’s rich fictional universe.

The new story relates the fateful misadventures of John Cardy, a failed stage magician looking for one last chance to make it big. When he’s offered a too-good-to-be-true magic talisman, his tricks become real, and he’s soon enmeshed in a dark alternate universe, slipping in and out to increasing fame and dread.

Kardak debuted in a story by C. A. Winter and Harry Shorten in 1939’s Top Notch Comics #1 as a superhero magician, employing tricks and mystical powers to fight organized crime and supervillains alongside his fiancée Lorna. He frequently employed the power of imperceptibility, a talent that will feature in the updated story, for better or for worse.

Kardak the Mystic releases August 14 in comic shops nationwide, with colors by Ellie Wright, letters by Jack Morelli, and an open-to-order variant cover by Skylar Patridge. It will be available for pre-order on May 24.

Crowdfunding Corner: Black Mask announces an anthology to benefit the WGA

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A new comics anthology curated by the creators of Calexit aims to celebrate the Hollywood Labor Movement’s massive success and also support workers impacted by the dual Strikes as the WGA closes its historic new deal with the studios. General Strike: Calexit and Other Tales of Fighting the Good Fight is a collection of new stories dedicated to the struggle for economic equality is written by WGA members, and publisher Black Mask Studios is matching the writers fees with donations to the Entertainment Community Fund. 

With official pre-orders opening today, General Strike is hosted by a brand new comic book heroine (labor organizing badass Gen. Strike) and features stories by a roster of WGA-writers including writer/producer/WGA NBCU Lot Coordinator Judalina Neira, Rodney Barnes, Tamara Becher, Daniel Dominguez, Charley Feldman, Grant Morrison, and Brian Michael Bendis. The project is being run by WGA-member writer and publisher Matteo Pizzolo.

General Strike is an anthology comic of genre stories about characters fighting the good fight against injustice, linked by the theme of confronting economic inequality. All of the stories are written by striking guild members. In addition to paying Marvel/DC-level writers’ rates, Black Mask is also matching the writers’ rates with donations to the Entertainment Community Fund, and the creators retain ownership of the IP to their stories and characters.

Comics’ newest superhero Gen. Strike, a bubblegum-chewing labor organizer, comes to life in a set of covers by comic book artists Tyler Boss, Iolanda Zanfardino, Ben Templesmith, Ramon Villalobos, Creees Lee, Elisa Romboli, Amancay Nahuelpan, and Darick Robertson.

Artists illustrating the General Strike stories include Antonio Fuso, Jamal Igle, Butch Mapa, Tyler Jenkins, and Josh Hood.

General Strike: Calexit and Other Tales of Fighting the Good Fight is available for pre-order now on Kickstarter.

Preview: Strange Science (One-Shot)

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Strange Science (One-Shot)

Script: Magdalene Visaggio
Art: Butch Mapa
Colors: Ellie Wright
Letters: Jack Morelli
Main Cover: Butch Mapa, Ellie Wright
Variant Cover: Skylar Patridge
On Sale Date: 8/16
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

Danni Malloy is Jinx Holliday’s best friend, and where one goes, the other is sure to follow… even if that means through hell and back and forth through the depths of space and time. When Danni receives a mysterious message from former friend Dilton Doiley, Danni is horrified to learn that he’s built a time machine and it’s gone terribly wrong—and now the three of them have been transported to warped version of Riverdale, where nothing seems quite right. It’s up to Danni to set things right and bring them back to the present day, and the hometown they know and love… and she might have to explain a thing or two to Jinx about what’s going on, too! STRANGE SCIENCE explores Danni’s personal history, time travel, and the importance of being to be true to yourself and what matters most to you.

Strange Science (One-Shot)

It’s Chilling Adventures and Strange Science from Archie in August

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With a string of top-selling comics establishing Jinx Holliday as the latest star of the Archie Horror imprint from Archie Comics, supporting character Danni Malloy will be next to take center stage. The duo embarks on a new terrifying adventure in Chilling Adventures Presents… Strange Science, a one-shot comic book releasing in August.

Writer Magdalene Visaggio teams with artist Butch Mapa for this latest entry, a turn towards dark sci-fi. In a story about being true to yourself and what matters most to you, Strange Science will also reveal that Danni is transgender.

The new one-shot takes its title from the 1989 comic book series Dilton’s Strange Science, which introduced Danni, a science genius who rivalled tech expert Dilton Doiley’s prodigious talent. In Visaggio’s story, Danni has left that life behind to become an artist and musician, exposing her to criticism from Dilton as the teens try to save themselves from a bizarre time travel accident. 

Danni’s first appearance in the modern Archie Horror universe was The Cursed Library, a one-shot released on Free Comic Book Day earlier this month, and she reappears alongside Jinx in their first full-length solo adventure this week in Jinx: A Cursed Life, both with art by Craig Cermak. The sequence subtly establishes linked continuity in Archie Horror for the first time with references to events in other titles, and serves as a starting point for all horror fans looking for a new storytelling universe to explore.

Strange Science, with an open-to-order variant cover by Skylar Patridge, colors by Ellie Wright, and lettering by Jack Morelli, releases August 16 in comic shops nationwide and will be available for pre-order in comics shops this Friday. 

Preview: Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

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Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

Script: Frank Tieri, Joanne Starer, Joe Corallo
Art: Joe Eisma, Butch Mapa, Patrick Piazzalunga
Colors: Matt Herms, Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Adam Gorham
Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 12/14
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a… werewolf?! The holidays look a little different in Riverdale this year—Santa’s nowhere in sight but Krampus is on the rampage! Who can take him down? Why only someone who can meet his match, and that someone’s best friend/monster hunter. That’s right, WereJug returns to do battle with the horned and hoofed holiday beast with Betty Cooper in his corner! Then, we dive into the true story of the Icelandic yule cat, Jólakötturinn, and her master—Sheila Wu?! Finally, Reggie meets a nice girl that he takes to the holiday dance—but things aren’t as they seem when she systematically dismantles Reggie’s life! The holidays are horrifying in this special horror anthology that reunites the team of Jughead: the Hunger!

Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

Preview: Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

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Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

Script: Frank Tieri, Joanne Starer, Joe Corallo
Art: Joe Eisma, Butch Mapa, Patrick Piazzalunga
Colors: Matt Herms, Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Adam Gorham
Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 12/14
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a… werewolf?! The holidays look a little different in Riverdale this year—Santa’s nowhere in sight but Krampus is on the rampage! Who can take him down? Why only someone who can meet his match, and that someone’s best friend/monster hunter. That’s right, WereJug returns to do battle with the horned and hoofed holiday beast with Betty Cooper in his corner! Then, we dive into the true story of the Icelandic yule cat, Jólakötturinn, and her master—Sheila Wu?! Finally, Reggie meets a nice girl that he takes to the holiday dance—but things aren’t as they seem when she systematically dismantles Reggie’s life! The holidays are horrifying in this special horror anthology that reunites the team of Jughead: the Hunger!

Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

Preview: Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

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Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)

Script: Frank Tieri, Joanne Starer, Joe Corallo
Art: Joe Eisma, Butch Mapa, Patrick Piazzalunga
Colors: Matt Herms, Glenn Whitmore
Letters: Jack Morelli
Cover: Adam Gorham
Variant Cover: Robert Hack
On Sale Date: 12/14
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a… werewolf?! The holidays look a little different in Riverdale this year—Santa’s nowhere in sight but Krampus is on the rampage! Who can take him down? Why only someone who can meet his match, and that someone’s best friend/monster hunter. That’s right, WereJug returns to do battle with the horned and hoofed holiday beast with Betty Cooper in his corner! Then, we dive into the true story of the Icelandic yule cat, Jólakötturinn, and her master—Sheila Wu?! Finally, Reggie meets a nice girl that he takes to the holiday dance—but things aren’t as they seem when she systematically dismantles Reggie’s life! The holidays are horrifying in this special horror anthology that reunites the team of Jughead: the Hunger!

Happy Horrordays (One-Shot)
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