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Preview: Space Scouts #3

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Space Scouts #3

Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: David Rubín
Letterer: David Rubín
Cover artist: David Rubín

In the grand finale, our hapless legion of teenage heroes are forced to grow up quick as they face a universe-ending enemy. But not everything is as it seems. They’ve come a long way from the reality-show competition to be the next great Space Scout, but not that they’ve “made it” it doesn’t seems so great as they drop like flies.

Casualties are going to be high so maybe don’t get too attached to your favorite character. Most of them aren’t going to make it back.

Space Scouts #3

Preview: Space Scouts #1

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Space Scouts #1

Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: David Rubín
Cover Artist: David Rubín

A brand-new science-fiction, action-adventure odyssey by Ether’s Matt Kindt and David Rubin.

A young girl heads to the center of the universe to compete in a reality show to become the next “Space Scout.” What starts as a teenage drama turns into deadly war at the edge of the universe as the “winning” recruits are sent into a clandestine interminable battle that they most likely won’t survive.

Space Scouts is the latest release from Flux House Books, a new boutique imprint that will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of acclaimed comics creator Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, horror, and humor stories, all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways.

Space Scouts #1

Space Scouts #1 Has Fun With Familiar Concepts and Journeys

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Space Scouts #1

A young girl heads to the center of the universe to compete in a reality show to become the next “Space Scout.” What starts as a teenage drama turns into deadly war at the edge of the universe as the “winning” recruits are sent into a clandestine interminable battle that they most likely won’t survive. Space Scouts #1 is an interesting start that feels self-aware and attempting to deliver something more than its familiar concepts would tease.

Written by Matt Kindt, Space Scouts #1 is a solid start to the series though overall it’s something we’ve seen before. But, the comic is well aware of that, addressing it all as the story progresses. Early on, the comic refers to its own concept as a cliché of the hero’s journey

Ember is the hope for her planet. She has abilities and has been entered into a contest to join the Space Scouts. Her planet, and her family, also get elevated in numerous ways. There’s a lot riding on her shoulders. The problem is, she doesn’t want it to be like that, she wants to forge her own path.

But, Kindt twists things up a little taking us quickly through the first challenges and whitling it down to the final 10 contestants. Where the comic easily could have been Ember against other contestants that would have been a major challenge, Kindt has Ember changing her attitude and figuring out she can manipulate the game in ways to up her odds. It’s an interesting direction and an unexpected one that took the comic from familiar, to something new and interesting.

David Rubín‘s art is solid. The characters, settings, everything, is varied and interesting to look at, every detail telling a little bit of the story. The comic has a feel in many ways like something Mike Allred would have done, and I found myself checking the credits to make sure it wasn’t him. Kindt doesn’t take time to really explain the characters and world, so it lands on the art to fill in those gaps and it does an excellent job in doing so. The comic’s visuals pop in interesting ways giving a solid sci-fi feel with a little wink and nod thrown about.

Space Scouts #1 is a solid debut that has me intrigued to see where it goes and what comes next. There’s a solid look and feel to it all and the comic teases readers it’s more than what’s presented, there’s something else going on here than just a contest. It’s Kindt and Rubín, so it’s not too surprising the comic is a solid debut. It’s definitely a debut that’s well worth checking out.

Story: Matt Kindt Art: David Rubín
Color: David Rubín Letterer: David Rubín
Story: 8.35 Art: 8.35 Overall: 8.35 Recommendation: Buy

Dark Horse provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Zeus Comics – Kindle

Preview: Space Scouts #1

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Space Scouts #1

Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: David Rubín
Cover Artist: David Rubín

A brand-new science-fiction, action-adventure odyssey by Ether’s Matt Kindt and David Rubin.

A young girl heads to the center of the universe to compete in a reality show to become the next “Space Scout.” What starts as a teenage drama turns into deadly war at the edge of the universe as the “winning” recruits are sent into a clandestine interminable battle that they most likely won’t survive.

Space Scouts is the latest release from Flux House Books, a new boutique imprint that will feature the writing (and sometimes) art of acclaimed comics creator Matt Kindt, with crime, science fiction, horror, and humor stories, all told and presented in startling and untraditional ways.

Space Scouts #1

NYCC 2025: Matt Kindt’s Flux House heads to Oni Press with a New Exclusive Publishing and Media Partnership

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In what might be some of the bigger news going into New York Comic Con 2025, Oni Press and New York Times best-selling writer and cartoonist Matt Kindt have announced a new publishing and media partnership that will see the acclaimed creator bring his Flux House publishing imprint to Oni Press for an array of new series beginning in summer 2026. 

In tandem with the new publishing deal, Oni and Kindt have also brokered a large-scale acquisition of media rights for more than 20 properties in the Flux House library with titles including 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, Apache Delivery Service (co-created with Tyler Jenkins), BANG! (co-created with Wilfredo Torres), Crimson Flower (co-created with Matt Lesniewski), Ether (co-created with David Rubín), Fear Case (co-created with Tyler Jenkins), Gilt Frame (co-created with Margie Kraft Kindt), Hairball (co-created with Tyler Jenkins), If You Find This, I’m Already Dead (co-created with Dan McDaid), Mr. Mammoth (co-created with Jean-Denis Pendanx), Poppy & The Lost Lagoon (co-created with Brian Hurtt), Red-Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes, Spy Superb (co-created with Sharlene Kindt), Subgenre (co-created with Wilfredo Torres), Super Spy, and nearly a dozen more. Development of the Flux House library – spanning film, television, animation, video games, podcast audio, and more – will be led internally by Oni with Kindt serving as a producer alongside David Steward II, Hunter Gorinson, and Jeremy Colfer.

Based in St. Louis, MO, Matt Kindt is a New York Times best-selling, Eisner Award-nominated writer, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for his series Mind MGMT, Dept. H, BANG!, and dozens more, as well as co-creating BRZRKR with actor Keanu Reeves – the best-selling independent comic book series of the 21st century. Now in his third decade of making and creating critically lauded series for publishers including Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, BOOM! Studios, Oni Press, and more, Kindt returned to Oni in 2024 for the publisher’s best-selling relaunch of the iconic EC Comics brand, which saw him prominently contribute to titles including Epitaphs from the Abyss, Catacomb of Torment, and the Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated Cruel Universe.

The Oni-led incarnation of Flux House – which first debuted as Kindt’s signature publishing imprint at Dark Horse in 2022 – will begin with three series beginning in summer 2026 alongside artists Brian Hurtt, Jesse Lonergan, and more to be revealed soon.

More news on the publisher’s upcoming Flux House publication plans will be revealed during New York Comic-Con 2025 at the “Oni Press: The Loudest Thing in Color” panel presentation – featuring Matt Kindt, alongside Oni President and Publisher Hunter Gorinson – on Friday, October 10th at 3:30 pm.

MIND MGMT: NEW AND IMPROVED #1

Written by Matt Kindt 
Art & Cover by Matt Kindt

You’re paranoid. But are you paranoid enough? Matt Kindt’s defining statement on psychic espionage returns with an all-new, entirely self-contained entry point into the genre-bending, Eisner Award-nominated series that Entertainment Weekly calls “one of the most experimental and fascinating books in mainstream comics.” 

New agents. New mission. The rest is classified. 

ONGOING SERIES | JUNE 2026

MIND MGMT: NEW AND IMPROVED #1

FORT PSYCHO #1 (of 12)

Written by Matt Kindt 
Art & Cover by Brian Hurtt 

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.

From master storytellers Matt Kindt (BRZKR, Mind MGMT) and Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun), MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE meets LOST on a tropical island paradise stocked with trained killers, secret betrayals, and the long-buried truth about the mission that brought them there. Always remember: There is nothing deadlier than an ally turned enemy. 

MAXI-SERIES | AUGUST 2026

FORT PSYCHO #1

FLUX HOUSE PRESENTS #1

Written by Matt Kindt
Art by Matt Kindt, Jesse Lonergan & More 

A new kind of comics anthology in the tradition of Eightball and Deadline Magazine that will release between story arcs of MIND MGMT: NEW AND IMPROVED, each double-sized installment of this quarterly Flux House showcase title will spotlight a major new landmark from Kindt’s oeuvre of creator-owned projects with a rotating cast of contributors and features, beginning with SPARK, a prehistoric survival adventure by Kindt himself; CRIME TRAVEL, a mesmerizing, genre-bending science-fiction thriller written by Kindt with art by Eisner and Ignatz Award nominee Jesse Lonergan (Drome, Man’s Best); and more stunning surprises yet to be revealed. 

QUARTERLY | NOVEMBER 2026 

Space Scouts takes you on a Sci-Fi Space Odyssey starting in November from Matt Kindt, David Rubin, Dark Horse, and Flux House

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Dark Horse Comics and Flux House Books present Space Scouts, a new sci-fi space odyssey comic series from Matt Kindt and David Rubín, the team behind the acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy comic series, Ether. This three-issue series, written by Kindt and illustrated and lettered by Rubín, will be presented in magazine-sized issues (8” x 10.875”) with 32 story pages. Each issue will also include bonus content like character designs and variant covers by Sergio Aragones (#1), Brian Hurtt (#2), and Alvaro Martinez Bueno (#3).

A young girl heads to the center of the universe to compete in a reality show to become the next “Space Scout.” What starts as a teenage drama turns into a deadly war at the edge of the universe as the “winning” recruits are sent into a clandestine, interminable battle that they most likely won’t survive.

Space Scouts #1 (of 3) will be available in comic shops on November 5, 2025 and is now available for preorder from your local comic shop for $7.99.

Explore EC Comics’ Summer of Fear in a Searing New Video Trailer! 

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil your next intoxicating (emphasis on “toxic”) look inside The Summer of Fear – the electrifying new slate of series from Oni Press and EC Comics beginning with Blood Type #1 which was released on June 11th – and continuing all summer long in Catacomb of Torment #1 and Cruel Universe 2 #1! 

But even grislier still… Look ahead as the all-new EC’s first brazenly bloody ONGOING SERIES twists the knife even deeper in August as Catacomb of Torment #2 slays into comic shops everywhere! Welcome back to the Tormentor’s lair . . . where each crank of the rack tightens your shackled limbs and brings even more taut tales of mayhem and murder spilling forth like so much viscera! This month: full-blooded writers Matt Bors, Evan Dorkin, and Jeremy Lambert join steel-nerved artists Kano, Lukas Ketner, and Fabiana Mascolo to navigate the catacombs by torchlight. . . . We hope they can find their way back out, hehehe!

This is EC Comics, not The Ritz hjl;kj l;kj lk. – and The Summer of Fear won’t allow you to escape, no matter how hard you try! In addition to feeling the heat, EC Comics and Oni Press will drain your deepest desires with Blood Type #1 (of 4) – on sale June 11th from Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko and Eisner Award winner Andrea Sorrentino. And then you’ll also feel the existential dread of a universe that wants you annihilated when Cruel Universe 2 #1 (of 12) unleashes science-fiction from beyond the void, courtesy of creators Charlie Adlard, J. Holtham, Kano, Ann Nocenti, David Rubín, and Greg Pak on August 8th! 

Buckle Up and Brace for Impact in Cruel Universe #3 from Oni Press and EC Comics

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Just in time for Halloween, Oni Press is calling the latest electric EC comic forth from the beyond! On October 2nd, the sinister and successful return of the iconic EC Comics imprint continues in Cruel Universe #3 – armed with one of our most craven casts of creators and time-distorted tales yet!

Ahead of the arrival of our third twisted tome of sci-fi stunners, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present a first look inside the all-new story “Automated” from rising star J. Holtham and unstoppable artist Kano as a billionaire inventor grapples with the true prices of technological innovation at any cost…

Plus: The world’s most existentially devastating comic magazine plumbs new depths in Cruel Universe #3 as the otherworldly talents of Cullen Bunn and David Rubín, Ben H. Winters and Carson Thorn and Zac Thompson and Dan McDaid begin a manned expedition to the extremes of human existence and imagine the terrifying possibilities of what to expect when the best of intentions meet the cold, hard reality of our worst instincts. The world and everything you hold dear within it may be doomed to the cold touch of entropy . . . BUT AT LEAST YOU CAN KEEP THIS COMIC AS A SOUVENIR!

Featuring covers by Eisner Award winner Greg Smallwood, Eisner Award winner Dave Johnson Ringo Award nominee Jay Stephens, and Eisner Award nominee Rian Hughes, give yourself over to science fiction that stings in Cruel Universe #3 – on sale October 2nd! 

Cruel Universe #3
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