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Preview: Battle in the Flower Gardens

Battle in the Flower Gardens

Written by Eduardo Medeiros
Art and Colors by Eduardo Medeiros
Letters by Deyvison Manes
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BATTLE IN THE FLOWER GARDENS is a sweet look back to early adolescence during the summer in a beachside town. Every summer, Luke goes to the beach with his parents and his best friend, Mitchell, with whom he shares various geek interests and pastimes. But this summer everything changes, testing and altering friendships forever.

Like any teenagers in the 90s, they found refuge from parents and the real world in the arcades of the time. The battle that takes place over video game skills has real world consequences that will reverberate amongst the teenagers forever.

Battle in the Flower Gardens

Preview: Zero Instance #2

Zero Instance #2

Written by Frank Barbiere and Stephen Rhodes
Art by Vic Malhotra issues #1-2 and Eoin Marron issues #3-5
Colors by Lauren Affe
Letters by Taylor Esposito
Covers by Vic Malhotra
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Chris is missing. Rhys tries to keep it together, but something is off. Spencer, the game’s reclusive designer, is tracking a code anomaly he believes escaped the server. Meanwhile, something wearing Chris’s skin is exploring the rules of reality and discovering just how fragile our world is.

Zero Instance #2

Preview: Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

(W) Giovanni Scarduelli (A) Giovanni Scarduelli

Another unique book in Mad Cave’s series of English print releases from Italian publisher Becco Giallo and Comixology Originals. Nikola Tesla follows two friends and collaborators making a film about the famous inventor’s life–and debating, between themselves, the very merits of that reputation. Sardonic and honest, this graphic novel is a refreshing reflection on the extraordinary changes to modern culture since Tesla’s era, as well as a fascinating insight into the turbulent life of the “mad genius.”

Who was Nikola Tesla? A brilliant inventor or a visionary uncoupled from his time? In this fictionalized exploration of his life, two filmmakers set out to settle the debate. Growing up in poverty in the mid-19th century under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Tesla studied and became an engineer on his own strength. He emigrated to America, where he was employed in the laboratory of the famous Thomas Edison, the inventor of the phonograph and the light bulb. But corruption and competition among Tesla’s colleagues–chief among them Edison himself–led to the “War of Currents,” a heated race for control of the world electricity market. Tesla came out on top of that race, but a strange and tragic confluence of events and prejudices led to his public downfall. With more than two hundred different patents and inventions over his lifetime, including the remote control and fluorescent lighting, Tesla is remembered today as one of the most important innovators in modern history. Sergio Rossi and Giovanni Scarduelli’s funny, heartfelt retelling speaks not only to the inventor’s legacy, but to our relationship with technology and the very concept of “genius.”

Eduardo Medeiros brings the graphic novel Battle in the Flower Gardens to comiXology Originals

Acclaimed Brazilian cartoonist Eduardo Medeiros presents Battle In The Flower Gardens, a coming-of-age original graphic novel about two best friends and one unforgettable summer. Written, drawn, and colored by Medeiros with lettering by Deyvison Manes, Battle In The Flower Gardens will debut on August 25, 2026 from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line.

Set in a beautiful beachside town, Battle in the Flower Gardens follows two adolescents on the precipice of adulthood. Culling from real life experience, Medeiros weaves a story of joy, sadness, and the magical feeling of summers that last forever, that will keep the reader engaged until the very last page. As for the art, Medeiros has divided the look of the art into two distinct and compelling styles to capture the journey of self-discovery and growth the character is experiencing.

Every summer, Luke goes to the beach with his parents and his best friend, Mitchell, with whom he shares various geek interests and pastimes. But this summer everything changes, testing and altering their friendship forever.

Like many teenagers in the 90s, Luke and Mitchell find refuge from their parents and the real world in the arcades. As the summer lingers on, the boys struggle to navigate their friendship, culminating in a battle over video game skills that has real life consequences and will reverberate amongst the teenagers forever.

Ultimately, Battle in the Flower Gardens is a story about family, friendship, and the unexpectedness of life.

Battle in the Flower Gardens

Preview: Ghostbox Black & White Digital Collection

Ghostbox Black & White Digital Collection

Written by Mike Carey
Art by Pablo Raimondi
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Two sisters, Chloe and Jan Peace, come into possession of a carved wooden box and discover that it has magical properties. Anyone who dies in the vicinity of the box goes neither to Heaven nor Hell but into the box itself. This makes the box a priceless treasure to the soul-devouring monsters known as the Estival, who will stop at nothing to get it. All the sisters want to do is get rid of the thing, but when Jan dies and the ghostbox takes her soul Chloe faces a stark choice. The Estival will keep coming for her so long as the box is in her possession. But if she gives it up, the monsters will devour her sister’s soul…

This edition presents the complete series entirely in black and white as it was originally drawn, and includes Carey’s full script for the first issue and the new, ten-page epilogue produced for the print edition.

Ghostbox Black & White Digital Collection

SDCC 2026: Comixology Originals and Mad Cave Studios Announce 2027 Print Slate

In the lead up to Comic-Con International San Diego, Comixology and Mad Cave Studios have announced that they have expanded their agreement to bring more Comixology Originals titles to print. In addition to the recently announced original graphic novel Quiet, by celebrity baker and cookbook author Kim-Joy with art by Alti arriving digitally this September and in print in summer 2027, the companies are excited to announce the acclaimed digital releases Major Thomás, Endless, She’s Running on Fumes, and The Tormented will be published in paperback and available for the first time in both bookstores and comic shops in 2027.

Mad Cave will bring the following Comixology Originals books to print in 2027:

MAJOR THOMÁS

Written by Omar Morales with art by Mau Mora and Serg Acuna
January 12, 2027 / January 13, 2027 — First Time In Print!

A Mexican-American farm worker becomes a NASA astronaut and just as his dreams begin to blast off, he gets lost in the middle of a space war, marooned with crushing regret about his life choices. With a foreword by Astronaut José M. Hernandez, Major Thomás is an inspiring hero’s journey for young people around the world. 

MAJOR THOMÁS

ENDLESS

Written by Curt Pires and various artists
February 23, 2027 / February 24, 2027 — First Time In Print!


When a heist to steal an expensive piece of scientific technology goes wrong, Henry Quan, a selfish career criminal, is unmoored in both space and time. Thrown in and out of parallel lives across the multiverse, he struggles to find his way back home and find out what exactly happened to him.

Each of the five issues reveals a new life in a new universe, drawn by a different amazing artist—including Diana Nguyen, Ryan Quackenbush, Rockwell White, Jacoby Salcedo, and Stefano Cardoselli.

ENDLESS

SHE’S RUNNING ON FUMES

Written by Dennis Hopeless with art by Tyler Jenkins
March 23, 2027 / March 24, 2027 — First Time In Print!

A desperate mom will do anything to keep her family afloat—and grand theft auto is just the start.
It’s summer 1984 in Deepwater, Missouri, and Jean’s husband has just scrambled his own eggs in a horrific car wreck. That, Jean can handle. The fifty thousand dollars worth of cocaine missing from his trunk? That’s a little harder. What’s a good woman to do?

She’ll start by throwing “good” out the window. Stealing cars and chopping them up makes a living, if not a great one. But the criminal life isn’t exactly family-friendly, and it sure as hell ain’t easy.

Inspired by real events from writer Dennis Hopeless’ own childhood, She’s Running on Fumes is a heartfelt, bittersweet exploration of what keeps a family together.

SHE’S RUNNING ON FUMES

THE TORMENTED

Written by Chuck Austen with art by Patrick Olliffe
May 18, 2027 / May 19, 2027 —  First Time In Print!

Ryan Auster’s parents were famous demon hunters while he was growing up, but unlike his father, mother, and sister, Ryan never had “the gift” to “see” the paranormal, so they left him behind when they went out to investigate. But Ryan was only hiding his gifts out of fear—fear of the things in the darkness, fear of his own, abusive father—until one life-altering night his fears prove right, something goes horribly wrong, and his entire family is brutally murdered by something… not human.

Instantly orphaned, Ryan is raised by various foster families, until—as an adult, he finds his paranormal abilities have unexpectedly gotten him an offer to host a ghost hunting reality TV show. He desperately needs the money, but he knows that if he takes the job, using his “gifts” will make him visible to whatever it was that gruesomely butchered his family, marking him, and his newfound friends on the show, for the same fate.

Too broke to say “no”, Ryan agrees to host the show, but his worst fears are realized when his “powers” do indeed make him a beacon that draws—not just the beings that killed his family—but all the many horrors that live in the darkness.

THE TORMENTED

Preview: Leviathan Freedom #2

Leviathan Freedom #2

Written by Tom Morello and Marc Guggenheim
Art by Szymon Kudrański
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The Grammy-winning guitarist, singer, songwriter, and activist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, and Prophets of Rage is returning to comics for Leviathan Freedom, an all-new sci-fi epic inspired by the true story of American icon Robert Smalls. Morello first made his comics debut with the acclaimed series Orchid in 2011. Now, the lifelong comics fan is uniting with Emmy award-winning writer/producer Marc Guggenheim (Star Wars: Jar Jar, The Whisper War, The Arrowverse), artist Szymon Kudrański (Spawn; Punisher) and letterer DC Hopkins for a five-issue mini-series event from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line.

Leviathan Freedom is a sci-fi reimagining of the legacy of Robert Smalls, a man born into slavery who seized his own freedom by commandeering a Confederate warship, sailing himself, his family, and others to liberation.

In Leviathan Freedom, the galaxy is divided by civil war. And the profound human cost of conflict is felt not in the war rooms but by the Doldrums, the laborer caste essential for the war machine–until one man decides to stand against it.

Chapter 2. Smalls hatches a plot that will change the course of history for himself and the rest of the laborer caste…

Leviathan Freedom #2
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