Storm King Comics has announced its 50th graphic novel entitled Red Riding: Rise of the Alpha Huntress, available for pre-order now and set for release on June 9, 2026.
Written by LGBTQ+ author Neo Edmund and illustrated by Jan Duursema, the book follows seventeen-year-old Red Riding and her sudden return home to Wayward Woods after receiving an ominous letter. She reconnects with her grandmother and long-lost friends as she discovers her superpowers, gifted to her by ancient lunar spirits, and rises to the occasion becoming the Alpha Huntress.
Looking ahead, Storm King Comics is gearing up to release two exciting and deeply frightening titles for their fans this summer. Arriving on July 7, Chaplain is a surreal and terrifying debut graphic novel co-written by creators Brad and Rev. Wesley Sun, illustrated by acclaimed artist Raúlo Cáceres, colored by Ryan Winn and lettered by Marshall Dillon.
Following on August 4 is Cathedral, the first original graphic novel written by John Carpenter, in collaboration with Sandy King, and writer Sean Sobczak, fleshed out by illustrators Federico De Luca and Luis Guaragna, colored by Sian Mandrake, and lettered by Marshall Dillon.
(W) Charles Soule (A) Madibek Musabekov (C) Rachelle Rosenberg (L) Clayton Cowles (CA) Stephen Segovia (VCA) Jan Duursema, John Tyler Christopher, Caspar Wijngaard Rated T In Shops: Mar 06, 2024 SRP: $4.99
THE TRIAL OF LANDO CALRISSIAN! After the events of DARK DROIDS, LANDO is at a crossroads. Saving his friend LOBOT has cost him more than he expected as now ADMIRAL ACKBAR and MON MOTHMA are putting Lando on trial. With THE REBELLION locked in battle with THE EMPIRE, how will this trial’s end impact the Rebellion’s future?
From Jedi Knights to Rebel leaders, the course of the Star Wars galaxy has been shaped by legendary women heroes! In honor of Women’s History Month, Marvel Comics will spotlight some of these iconic characters in new variant covers.
Featured on all of Marvel’s current Star Wars comic series hitting stands in March, the seven Star Wars Women’s History Month Variant Covers are drawn by the industry’s leading women artists and depict characters from Star Wars storytelling including films, television and streaming series, and comics.
Each brave and inspiring in their own unique way, here are the characters highlighted this year:
Ahsoka Tano, former Jedi Knight who served as Anakin Skywalker’s fierce Padawan during the Clone Wars. Ahsoka’s heroic exploits after walking away from the Jedi Order have made her one of the franchise’s most beloved characters and last year, she starred in her own hit live-action series on Disney+ which will be adapted to comic book form this summer!
Fennec Shand, feared assassin and elite mercenary whose deadly skills are a highlight of shows like The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
Mon Mothma, one of the key founders of the Rebel Alliance known for carefully guiding her fellow Rebels in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and more recently, Andor.
Omega, member of the mighty clone crew, Clone Force 99. Armed with her trademark energy bow, she carves out a new life for herself and her brothers in the Star Wars: The Bad Batch animated series.
Rey Skywalker, the powerful Jedi hero who saved the galaxy from the re-emerged Sith in the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Rose Tico, an expert Resistance mechanic who found herself on the front lines of the galactic civil war in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Tynnra Pamlo, a wise galactic senator who boldly opposed Emperor Palpatine alongside the Rebel Alliance in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Check out all seven Star Wars Women’s History Month Variant Covers now and preorder them at your local comic shop today!
STAR WARS #44 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY JAN DUURSEMA – 75960609600804441
STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #44 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY MARGUERITE SAUVAGE – 75960609601504431
STAR WARS: MACE WINDU #2 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY KAREN DARBOE – 75960620706000221
STAR WARS: JANGO FETT #1 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY AKA – 75960620883800121
STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC #5 [PHASE III] WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY BETSY COLA – 75960620708400521
STAR WARS: THRAWN ALLIANCES #3 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY ANNIE WU – 75960609358800321
STAR WARS: OBI-WAN KENOBI #6 WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH VARIANT COVER BY STEPHANIE HANS
Baltimore Comic-Con returns to the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center on September 8-10, 2023. The convention has announced Jan Duursema, Garth Ennis, Tom Mandrake, Ron Marz, Al Milgrom, and Craig Rousseau as comics guests at the 2023 event. Fans can get their tickets online now.
Jan Duursema‘s first published comics work appeared in Sgt. Rock and Heavy Metal (1979). She began working for DC Comics in 1980 and co-created Arion, Lord of Atlantis which first appeared as a backup story in Warlord. This was followed by work on Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Hawkworld, and Hawkman, as well as a story in Wonder Woman #300.
Her first work for Marvel Comics appeared in Star Wars #92. Other projects for Marvel include X-Factor, The Hulk, Knight of Terra, several X-Men books, and covers for Star Wars titles.
Her work with Dark Horse Comics’ Star Wars franchise began with Star Wars: Chewbacca #2. After that, Jan drew several Star Wars series for Dark Horse, including Star Wars: Darth Maul, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Republic, Republic Clone Wars, Star Wars Legacy, and Dawn of the Jedi.
Jan drew and co-wrote Hexer Dusk, a creator-owned sci-fi horror graphic novel with John Ostrander.
Other projects include Elric: The Vanishing Tower for First Comics, Summit for Lion Forge, and two stories for John Carpenter’s HalloweeNight for Storm King. Jan is currently working for Storm King on a soon-to-be-announced project.
Garth Ennis broke into the American Comic scene in 1991, taking over the writing reins on Hellblazer. After a successful four-year run, Ennis moved on to create Preacher, a 66-issue epic that ran from 1995 -2000. In addition to these two ground-breaking series, he also had lengthy runs on DC’s The Demon and Hitman. Ennis also wrote The Boys, a 72-issue story which began at DC’s Wildstorm imprint before moving to Dynamite Entertainment with issue #7, and which is now a hit series on Amazon Prime Video.
Tom Mandrake has been illustrating comic books and graphic novels for over 40 years. Some of the titles he has illustrated include Batman, The Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Shazam, and his acclaimed five-year run on The Spectre for DC Comics, The New Mutants, The Punisher, Weapon X, Wolverine, and The Hulk Unchained for Marvel Comics, Grimjack for First Comics, The X-Files for IDW, Sidekick for Joe’s Comics, Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter for Titan Comics, and many more.
His creator owned projects include To Hell You Ride with Lance Henriksen and Joe Maddrey through Dark Horse Comics, Creeps with Dan Mishkin through Image Comics, KROS: Hallowed Ground with John Ostrander and Screaming Mandrake: The Nailman and Other Strange Tales, written and illustrated by Tom, and his new project, Wisdom with JM DeMatteis through Spellbound Comics.
He has illustrated such books as GRRM: The George RR Martin Retrospective, the young adult novel The Forest King: The Woodlark’s Shadow, and 100 Deadly Skills: Combat Edition.
Mandrake was art director for the independent film Zombie Prom, which won several awards including Best Comics-Oriented Film and the Judges’ Choice Award at the 2006 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival in San Diego.
As an instructor at The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Tom teaches Narrative Art and Storytelling. He is also the co-developer of the Kubert Schools Horror Comics correspondence course.
Ron Marz has been writing comics for three decades, starting his career with a lengthy run on Silver Surfer for Marvel. Since then, he has worked for virtually every major publisher and compiled a long list of credits, including stints on Thor for Marvel, Green Lantern and Superboy for DC, Star Wars for Dark Horse, and the historic Marvel vs. DC crossover. He co-created the Green Lantern Kyle Rayner during his landmark run on the title, and recently returned to Marvel for the Silver Surfer: Rebirth series with Ron Lim.
Marz is also known for penning numerous inter-company crossovers, including Green Lantern-Silver Surfer, Batman-Aliens, Batman-Tarzan: Claws of the Catwoman, Green Lantern-Aliens, and Amalgam title Doctor Strangefate. Other credits include his acclaimed run on Witchblade, the Skylanders series for IDW, the Justice League: Endless Winter crossover for DC, Almost American for Aftershock, X-O Manowar at Valiant, and Swamp God in Heavy Metal magazine.
Allen Milgrom was born March 6, 1950 in Detroit, Michigan. Al graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in art and design in 1972 and moved to New York. After a year interning at DC Comics with legendary artist Murphy Anderson, Al began inking and, soon after, penciling. He’s worked on lots of comics over the years, (penciling, inking and even some writing) primarily for Marvel Comics, but he also co-created Firestorm at DC Comics and did work at Archie Comics as well as Atlas, Dark Horse, and others. He also did stints as an editor at Marvel and DC.
Married to his wife, Judy, since 1979, they have a daughter and two sons and the cutest grandson and granddaughter ever to walk the earth (of course he may be biased).
Craig Rousseau has been working in the comics industry for over 2 decades, working for all the major publishers, including DC (Impulse, Batman Beyond, Harley Quinn, Batman ‘66) and Marvel (Iron Man Armor Wars, Captain America and the Korvac Saga, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane). Besides Young Hellboy from Dark Horse Comics, he’s currently working on the latest adventures of his creator-owned book, The Perhapanauts (with Todd Dezago) at Black Caravan… and a few other things.
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Sarah Andersen (Sarah’s Scribbles), Marty Baumann (Pixar artist), Brian Michael Bendis (Action Comics), Jon Bogdanove (The Death of Superman), Judy Bogdanove (Steel Annual), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Richard Case (Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Amy Chu (KISS: The End), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Abby Denson (Uniquely Japan), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Jan Duursema (Star Wars: The High Republic), Garth Ennis (The Boys), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Mike Grell (Jon Sable), Gene Ha (Mae), Tony Harris (The Whistling Skull), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Greg Hildebrandt (Star Wars), Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer), Matthew Loux (Prunella and the Cursed Skull Ring), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Tom Mandrake (Spectre), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Pop Mhan (Gears of War 3), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Ed Piskor (Red Room: Trigger Warnings), Joe Prado (Superman), Craig Rousseau (The Perhapanauts), Steve Rude (Nexus), Jim Rugg (Hulk Grand Design), Andy Runton (Owly), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), John K. Snyder III (Suicide Squad), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), John Workman (Wild Things), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).
(W) Vita Ayala (A) Rod Reis, Jan Duursema (CA) Leinil Francis Yu RATED T+ In Shops: Aug 17, 2022 SRP: $3.99
AN END OF AN ERA… IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE! The time has come for Magik to conquer her demons. Will Illyana be able to contend with manifestations of her trauma and save her friends in the process? And if Madelyne does gain the throne…can the Goblin Queen contain the fiery madness of Limbo? Or will her old inclinations towards chaos resurface, bringing Krakoa and the rest of world to their knees?
(W) Vita Ayala (A) Jan Duursema (CA) Leinil Francis Yu RATED T+ In Shops: Jul 13, 2022 SRP: $3.99
FALLING INTO THE LOOKING GLASS! With her Soulsword shattered, Magik spirals into unfamiliar territory as she confronts her legacy in Limbo – dragging Mirage and Wolfsbane down with her! And while Magik faces the demons of her past, present, and future…Madelyne Pryor inches closer to the throne.
(W) Vita Ayala (A) Rod Reis, Jan Duursema (CA) Leinil Francis Yu RATED T+ In Shops: Jun 22, 2022 SRP: $3.99
WHILE THE QUEEN IS AWAY, DEMONS WILL PLAY! A new queen has taken the throne of Limbo – Madelyne Pryor, A.K.A. the Goblin Queen! Meanwhile, separated from Limbo, Magik faces an enemy she thought she had banished long ago.
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Jan Duursema (CA) Aaron Lopresti In Shops: Feb 12, 2020 SRP: $3.99
Wonder Woman…under arrest! As she starts to protect her new hometown of Boston, the city wonders-who will protect Boston from her? Agent Nora Nunes must shadow Wonder Woman for a day to ensure the city will be safe if Diana resides there. But what starts as a tranquil day transforms into disaster relief, and Diana and Nora will need to survive not only the elements, but also the arrival of the three Dark Fates!
X-Factor: X-Aminations is volume 8 in Marvel’s Epic Collection. It collects issues #84-100 and Annual #8
Story: Peter David, Scott Lobdell, Skip Dietz, J.M. DeMatteis, Shana David, Joe Quesada Art: Jae Lee, Joe Quesada, Chris Batista, Buzz, Jan Duursema, Terry Schoemaker, Paul Ryan, Greg Luzniak, Cliff Van Meter Ink: Al Milgrom, Mark McKenna, Andrew Pepoy, Jeff Albrecht, Cliff Van Meter Color: Brad Vancata, Glynis Oliver, Marie Javins, Ariane Lenshoek, Tom Smith, Joe Rosas, Mike Thomas, Matt Webb, Carlos Lopez Letterer: Richard Starkings, Steve Dutro, Lois Buhalis, Janice Chiang, Dave Sharpe, Pat Brosseau
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Celebrating 80 years, Marvel goes a bit retro delivering a new issue for their classic Star Wars series from the 80s!
Story: Matthew Rosenberg Art: Giuseppe Camuncoli, Cam Smith, Andrew Broccardo, Kerry Gammill, Ze Carlos, Andrea Broccardo, Jan Duursema, Stefano Lanini, Luke Ross, Leonark Kirk Color: Chris Sotomayor Letterer: Clayton Cowles
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