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Dead Teenagers #1 is an interesting horror concept that’s a solid intro to the world and characters

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THERE’S NO ESCAPING HIGH SCHOOL! Since 1997, five friends have been trapped in the ultimate nightmare as a mysterious entity forces them to relive their first prom night over and over again . . . and re-kills them in new and increasingly insane ways each time. They dress up. They party. They make out. And no matter what they try to change, they always die . . . until now. Something is about to break the cycle that has kept Alicia, J.T., Ryder, Brandy, and their group of friends locked in a bizarre purgatory beyond all understanding . . . but what they find on the other side will be the most disturbing revelation of all. Hell is the ’90s in this brash and brutal, genre-distorting ode to the generation that gave us Scream and Buffy the Vampire Slayer—and what’s become of them since.

Story: Jude Ellison S. Doyle
Art: Caitlin Yarsky
Letterer: Becca Carey

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.

Kindle

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Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 unveils Operation: Blind Bag! Do you dare?

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Operation: Blind Bag

If you are reading this, you have been invited to participate in a very special program designed to entertain, enlighten, and enhance your perception of Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 – the “first issue” of the brand-new beginning for New York Times best-selling writer/artist Matt Kindt‘s groundbreaking comic masterpiece arriving on June 24th from Oni Press and Flux House. 

When Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 arrives on shelves – featuring a die-cut standard cover by Matt Kindt himself – it will also be accompanied by a mystifying token of the ongoing war for the psychic control of America’s heart and mind. Enter: Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1 – Operation: Blind Bag – a fin-sealed, metallic silver “blind bag” containing everything you need to know to escape the reach of the subliminal surveillance agency called “Mind Management.” 

On the outside: A new training protocol designed and written by Matt Kindt with instructions on how to deploy the “blind bag” in your possession to withstand psychic attack by the forces of paranoia and control. 

And on the inside – Operation: Blind Bag commences with an artistic assault on the senses as each blind bag reveals one of 15 exclusive, chase, or rare variant covers spanning four distinct subsets with strictly limited print runs in a manner of aesthetically pleasing alternatives to stimulate your third eye

Operation: Blind Bag

ARTIST VARIANT SUBSET

A curated line of artistic interpretations heralding Mind MGMT’s return, featuring Jenna Cha, Jeff Lemire, Jesse Lonergan, Fábio Moon, and David Rubín.

NOTE: These covers will be evenly divided across the print run once all rare and chase subset covers have been accounted for. 

“ERROR” EDITIONS BY MATT KINDT SUBSET 

In the process of manufacturing and distributing Matt Kindt‘s open-order, die-cut cover for Mind MGMT: New & Improved #1, it appears that some unfortunate errors accidentally made their way into the blind bagging process, including Korean import and 3-D versions never intended for commercial distribution.

CHASE FOIL SUBSET

Limited edition variants of Jesse Lonergan and J.H. Williams III cover art, reproduced without trade dress on foil stock. 

HYPER-RARE “U.S.S.A.” VARIANT SUBSET 

Featuring guest starring roles from Lee Harvey Oswald, Patty Hearst, Charles Manson, Richard Nixon, the command module of Apollo 11, and more, this hyper-rare variant subset consists of six covers unearthing America’s secret history of mind control and information warfare across the 20th Century, as rendered by artist and designer Scott Sugiuchi.

NOTE: One of these covers is a hallucination and will never actually exist. Sorry, and thank you for playing!

Preview: Dead Teenagers #1

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Dead Teenagers #1

(W)  Jude Ellison S. Doyle (A) Caitlin Yarsky 

Since 1997, five friends have been trapped in the ultimate nightmare as a mysterious entity forces them to relive their first prom night over and over again… and re-kills them in new and increasingly insane ways each time. They dress up. They party. They make out. And no matter what they try to change, they always die… until now. Something is about to break the cycle that has kept J.T., Ryder, Brandy, and their group of friends locked in a bizarre purgatory beyond all understanding… but what they find on the other side will be the most disturbing revelation of all.

Dead Teenagers #1

Superstar Creator Dustin Weaver Reveals the Tormentor’s Twisted Origin in Catacomb of Torment #11

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DISCOVER THE TANTALIZING, TERRIFYING TRUTH ABOUT THE TORMENTOR! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce that the strange and sordid secret origin of the horror host known as The Tormentor will finally be revealed in all-new story by acclaimed writer/artist Dustin Weaver in EC Comics’ Catacomb of Torment #11 – on sale May 20th!

EC’s very own Mistress of Malice, the Tormentor, finally takes center stage to reveal her hopes (“to see your bone marrow!”), dreams (“slathering you in scalding oil!”), and aspirations (“finding excruciating new ways of using the ball peen hammer!”) in this VERY SPECIAL and EXTRA BLOODY tale of who she is and how she came to be! The issue “marks” the first time that EC Comics and Oni Press have divulged the bloody backstory of one of the three new EC horror hosts – The Grave-Digger, The Tormentor, and The Grim Inquisitor – with a tale both written and drawn by modern EC Comics master Dustin Weaver, who designed and co-created EC’s all-new masters of menace. The revelation of the Tormentor’s untold origin continues a frightening EC Comics tradition; the Crypt-Keeper’s origin was revealed in EC publisher and co-editor Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Jack Davis’s “Lower Berth” in Tales from the Crypt #33, and the Old Witch’s origin was revealed in “A Little Stranger” in The Haunt of Fear #14, written by Al Feldstein with art by Graham Ingels. 

In addition to this “all-scar” celebration of Her Royal Majesty of Pain, EC Catacomb of Torment #11 features more new tortuous tales from the depths of the Tormentor’s catacomb including “Type M for Murder,” written by Matt Bors and drawn by Fabiana Mascolo, and “Every Cut a Lie,” from writer Liam Johnson and artist Arjuna Susini. 

Don’t miss our most devilish ish yet—or The Tormentor will leave you for last! Catch the bizarre birth of the Catacomb’s very own hostess of horror in Catacomb of Torment #11, on sale May 20th and featuring cadaverous covers from Dustin Weaver, Jorge Fornés, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

Catacomb of Torment #11

Crownsville #5 wraps up the story and leaves us wanting more. Please can we get more?!

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For nearly a century, Maryland’s Crownsville State Hospital has stood as a living testament to a dark chapter in America’s past . . . a segregated mental institution where Black patients were routinely subjected to abuse, neglect, unethical medical testing, and even secret government experimentation, before its doors were closed forever. But the past doesn’t always stay in the past. The ghastly and horrific secrets shuttered away at the abandoned institution have returned from the grave to seek justice for the horrors inflicted upon them. With their pasts intertwined in the history of the hospital, Detective Mike Simms and journalist Paul Blair bear witness in this stunning conclusion as the spirits of Crownsville who cannot find rest instead seek retribution!

Story: Rodney Barnes
Art: Elia Bonetti
Letterer: Marshall Dillon

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.

Zeus Comics
Kindle

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“Psycho-Vision” debuts in Fort Psycho #1 – A New Leap-Forward for Comic Book Printing Technology

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In 1931, Bell Laboratories introduced high-fidelity, forever altering man’s relationship to music. In 1939, Technicolor revolutionized the aesthetic of cinema – producing deeper, more immersive images on film that instantly conjured “movie magic” for viewers around the world. Now, nearly a century later, Oni Press and Flux House introduce “Psycho-Vision” – a new, wholly unique combination of print processes developed for the upcoming, August 2026 debut of Fort Psycho #1 that will maximize the power of comic book storytelling in the most aggressive and high intensity manner ever attempted on the printed page. 

Debuting first on Fort Psycho #1 and continuing across of all 12 issues of the highly explosive new maxi-series from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt and powerhouse artist Brian Hurtt, “Psycho-Vision” will up the ante with upgrades across five distinct categories:

  • MAXIMIZED COLOR: Pantone-keyed covers for each issue by series co-creator Brian Hurtt specifically engineered to capture specific colors otherwise impossible to print under the standard CMYK process.
  • MAXIMIZED QUALITY: Heavy-duty, 10 pt. cardstock covers on each issue – so sturdy they could take a bullet! 
  • MAXIMIZED CONTENT: Each issue of FORT PSYCHO will be delivered completely free of external advertising and come packed with exclusive back matter, beginning with its double-sized 40-page first issue in August 2026. 
  • MAXIMIZED LANGUAGE: When it comes to telling the tightly wound, 12-part tale of disgraced super-spies exiled to an island prison stocked with trained killers, secret betrayals, and the long-buried truth about the mission that brought them there … things are going to get salty. FORT PSYCHO uses all the @#$%-ing words!
  • MAXIMIZED PHYSICALITY: Due to the proprietary nature of this new printing process, the complete PSYCHO-VISION experience is only available to readers of the series’ single-issue print editions in comic shops and cannot be reproduced or approximated digitally. 

Ten years ago, the nation of Singapore sank into the Pacific Ocean. The underground terrorist network known as The Seven Seals took credit for the largest act of terror in human history. In the aftermath, the United Nations created a strike team of highly trained covert operatives with one mission: locate, identify, and eliminate The Seven Seals’ secretive leader. The team’s clandestine affairs were to always remain in the shadows – until their final, explosive confrontation with The Seven Seals resulted in a large-scale tragedy too bloody to cover up and too tragic to ignore. 

Disgraced and disavowed by the governments that trained them, the world’s most dangerous secret agents have been convicted for their crimes and sentenced to serve time side-by-side in the one place capable of holding them: their old island headquarters, Fort Cyclone – now known in the media by the derogatory nickname “Fort Psycho.” 

And that’s where the official story is about to go terribly, terribly wrong.

WARNING: YOU HAVE UNTIL AUGUST 2026 TO REACH MAXIMUM SAFE DISTANCE FROM FORT PSYCHO #1 – the brand-new, ticking time bomb of comic book firepower coming soon from master storytellers Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt with covers from series co-creator Brian Hurtt, modern master Lewis LaRosa, and more to be revealed soon! 

Murder Drones goes Home in May with a Special issue

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Oni Press and independent animation studio Glitch Productions are proud to reveal the Murder Drones: Home Special #1, a double-sized, 40-page one-shot special that adapts the stylish and shocking origin episode from Murder Drones creator Liam Vickers’ worldwide animation phenomenon. Expanding out of the pages of the record-setting Murder Drones limited series, writer Wyatt Kennedy will be joined by Bram Stoker Award-winning artist Soo Lee for a haunting and harrowing, self-contained chapter with pivotal consequences for everything we know about the world of Copper 9!

Arriving in stores between issues #4 and #5 of the primary Murder Drones series, join series scribe Wyatt Kennedy and special guest artist Soo Lee as they bring to life the chilling visions of a time long before the fall of the surface world on Copper 9, locked away deep in the recesses of poor Serial Designation N’s seemingly innocent, childlike little brain (or CPU, or whatever drones have). Will the secrets of N’s old human family, the Elliots, give Uzi and her friends the knowledge to stop the Absolute Solver virus? Or will it unlock a monster long forgotten?

History comes to life on May 13th when Murder Drones: Home Special #1 crash lands in comic shops with covers from Soo Lee, Alessio Zonno, and Jo Mi-Gyeong! 

And then, just two weeks later, your normally scheduled program returns when Murder Drones #4 (of 6) arrives in stores on May 27th!

Pray For Absolution in Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 – Coming in April From Tim Daniel, D.B. Andry, and Maan House

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Oni Press has revealed an extended look inside inside Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 (of 4), a chilling tale of secrets buried deep beneath the surf of the idyllic Pacific coast written by rising stars Tim Daniel and David “D.B.” Andry with gorgeously atmospheric artwork by modern horror virtuoso Maan House coming April 8th!

Atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sits the Mission at Arbués Point, a 400-year-old Spanish mission made infamous as one of California’s oldest and most haunted historical sites. But beneath its crumbling, tourist-trap facade, a reclusive nun has spent decades within the Mission’s walls, honing her prayers and practice in pursuit of a secret long-buried beneath the majesty of the chapel, and under the dark waves of the tidal estuary below. When marine archaeologist Maris Cristobal accepts the nun’s offer to begin excavating a fabled shipwreck lying in wait beneath the Mission’s turbulent waters, she’ll soon discover that the sins of past and present are about to wash together into a harrowing surge of a vengeance that can no longer be contained . . .

Kneel and pray for your redemption when Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 sets stores ablaze on April 8th — featuring a holy mosaic of blessed covers from interior artist Maan House, Vanesa R. Del Ray, and Tim Daniel!

ESTUARY: A GHOST STORY #1

Murder Drones #1 brings the popular series to comics

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Murder Drones #1

In the far future on the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are long gone but the robotic worker drones they created to mine the planet’s resources are still hard at work. Together, they have managed to forge their own makeshift society… or so they thought until a previously unknown kind of robot — the dreaded ‘Murder Drones’ — are activated by a long-forgotten human-scripted protocol to disassemble any worker that deviates from its original programming. But when a rebellious young worker drone named Uzi forms an unlikely alliance with two disassembly drones — Serial Designations N and V — can they, together, uncover the secrets of their origins… and stop the spread of the unsettling mechanical virus known as the Absolute Solver? Murder Drones #1 is an interesting start bringing the animated series to the comic page but might be for the uber fans.

There’s a lot I want to like about Murder Drones #1. The story about cute robots that were enemies, now friends, working together against a larger threat sounds like the type of story I’d fall for. With the cuteness of Astrobots, with the kinetic energy of manga and anime, and a nice underlying message, Murder Drones #1 feels like a property geared for my tastes. But, while I get what it’s going for, the dialogue of the comic feels a bit like “how do you do, fellow kids?” There was a point I had to stop to see if I was having a stroke while reading it, it felt so bizarre to me.

Set in a future where it’s just robots, humanity has wiped itself out, there’s a cringe feel to the comic for me, where it feels like adults trying to mimic how kids sound. With dialogue like “Ha Ha! Classic toxic masculinity, Chad! That’s never gonna end up problematic!” the comic to me comes off in a way I can’t enjoy. I’ve never seen the animated series, so no idea how well the comic reflects it, but as a new reader, there’s something off-putting with the dialogue. I like the underlying aspects and interactions, but it’s the words themselves where I’m left scratching my head. I’m sure it’s a generational thing, and robots using dialogue like this from a “dead” civilization is part of the point, but for me, it’s just something I have trouble getting past.

But, Liam Vickers and Wyatt Kennedy do craft an interesting debut. It has a lot I really do enjoy including the introduction to the world, and some aspects of the characters, particularly the relationship between a daughter and father. There’s some interesting commentary here and biting satire… if you can get past the dialogue itself.

The art by Jo Mi-Geyong is great. The comic pops with a look that feels like Astrobots but a glowing color palette. The character designs are cute and adorable, to a point you want figures of them, and the world works really well in telling the backstory. The action is great with a manga/anime feel about it all that really does pop on the page.

While I enjoyed the story and details of Murder Drones #1, there’s a point where I was pulled out and wondered if it was a generational thing I just wasn’t getting. I couldn’t tell if some of the dialogue was just flavor, serious, how kids talk, or how adults think kinds talk. While interesting, it was distracting as someone new to it all. Murder Drones #1 has a lot going for it and I’m sure it’ll find a fandom in comics that’ll love it but as someone new, it might be one you have to know the property to really get.

Story: Liam Vickers, Wyatt Kennedy Art: Jo Mi-Gyeong
Story: 7.0 Art: 8.25 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Read

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Preview: Murder Drones #1

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Murder Drones #1

writer Wyatt Kennedy
artist Jo Mi-Gyeong

In the far future on the desolate exoplanet designated Copper 9, the humans are long gone but the robotic worker drones they created to mine the planet’s resources are still hard at work. Together, they have managed to forge their own makeshift society . . . or so they thought until a previously unknown kind of robot – the dreaded “Disassembly Drones” – are activated by the mega-corporation JC Jenson to disassemble any worker that deviates from its original programming. But when a rebellious young worker drone named Uzi forms an unlikely alliance with two disassembly drones – Serial Designations N and V- can they, together, uncover the secrets of their origins . . . and stop the spread of the unsettling mechanical virus known as the Absolute Solver?

Murder Drones #1
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