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DSTLRY Reveals Retailer Variant Covers for Jock’s Gone #1

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DSTLRY has revealed eight new variant covers for Gone #1, an action-packed sci-fi adventure written, drawn, and colored by Eisner-Award winning creator Jock.

The cover artists and retailers are as follows:

  • Cover G – Jock (Undressed); Forbidden Planet UK
  • Cover I – Christian Ward; Bird City Comics
  • Cover J – Ariela Kristantina (Full Color); The Comic Corner
  • Cover L – Jason Shawn Alexander; El Rey Comics, The Comic Cupboard, and Hive Comics
  • Cover M – Lee Garbett; The Comic Mint
  • Cover O – Joëlle Jones; Rabbit Comics
  • Cover P – Ariela Kristantina (Ink Wash); The Comic Corner
  • Cover R – Jock (Interior); Bird City Comics 

GONE spins out from Jock’s 8-page story “The Stowaway” from DSTLRY’s debut release The Devil’s Cut, and will feature an oversized, 48-page perfect bound issue.

On an impoverished and distant planet where menial workers scratch out a living resupplying starships, the best place to be is GONE…and that’s exactly where 13-year-old Abi wants to be. Along with her street-tough friends, Abi stows away on a colossal luxury space-liner, hoping for a better life. Unbeknownst to her, Abi’s “friends” are not who they seem, and she suddenly finds herself branded a saboteur as she desperately struggles to evade the ship’s deadly crew to stay alive! As the young heroine confronts betrayal, discovers her true allies, and fights against all odds, Abi will soon realize that nothing is farther away than…home.

Gone #1 is available to pre-order now and will be available to purchase at local comic shops on October 25.

Killadelphia #31 unleashes a new era of the acclaimed vampire saga

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The Eisner Award nominated Killadelphia from writer Rodney Barnes and collaborator Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist who redefined Todd McFarlane’s legendary Spawn for a whole new generation, shocked fans with a surprise appearance from the same character in the final issue of the previous story arc.

The Killadelphia series follows a small-town beat cop who returns home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr. What he doesn’t anticipate is digging up a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality… and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead president of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution.

The forces of Heaven and Hell clash on the battleground that is Philly and weave into the tapestry of a larger universe when Todd McFarlane’s greatest creation crosses over into the pages of Killadelphia! All the power SeeSaw has gained and all the magic he’s learned will be put to the test when he faces off against comics’ greatest anti-hero! Anything can happen in this bold jumping-on point for new readers that will redefine the Killadelphia universe as we know it. The sold-out, Eisner Award-nominated series continues in a landmark story arc that will also feature canon surprise appearances by recognizable characters from outside Philadelphia’s city limits. 

This next arc also contains a backup stories featuring Hell’s Baddest Badass: Johnny Gatlin.

SDCC 2023: Alice Cooper and writer Rodney Barnes versus the Forces of Evil

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Dynamite has announced that the award-winning writer Rodney Barnes is taking on the living legend of Rock N’ Roll, Alice Cooper. This exciting new series has Barnes teaming with Edu Menna who is known for his work on KISS, Barbarella and Starfinder. And the whole thing kicks off this October!

Alice Cooper is no stranger to comic book fans as the iconic rocker has been popping up in the four-colored pages since the seventies. But in this new tale of terror, legendary rock acts are being attacked by demonic forces and Alice starts to notice some of his own fans happen to be… undead.

Among the start-studded crew of cover artists for this series is Barnes’ frequent collaborator from their hit comic series Killadelphia, Jason Shawn Alexander. Plus, the incredibly talented Stuart Sayger and Andrew Mangum join in, along with a photo cover of the bombastic lead singer and a blank cover so fans can get original sketches done. And all of these covers will be cardstock!

Alice Cooper #1 is out October 2023.

Killadelphia #30 sells out and gets a second printing

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The Eisner Award nominated Killadelphia from writer Rodney Barnes and collaborator Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist who redefined Todd McFarlane’s legendary Spawn for a whole new generation, shocked fans with a surprise appearance from  the same character on April 26.

Fans and collectors overwhelmed their local comic shops to grab this landmark issue, selling out of its first printing almost immediately. Image Comics has announced a second printing will arrive on sale May 31, and available for preorder now!

The Killadelphia series follows a small-town beat cop who returns home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr. What he doesn’t anticipate is digging up a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality… and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead president of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution.

In this latest arc, villains have become heroes, with the line between good and evil blurred beyond recognition. Philadelphia is ravaged by the war between Heaven and Hell, and our heroes are DEAD…But from the ashes of despair comes the spark of hope that will set up a bold new direction for this series…and things will never be the same. The sold-out, Eisner Award-nominated horror series reaches the end of this arc with even more shocking surprises! It all starts here!

Head to your favorite comic book retailer today to preorder your copy of this second printing! 

Spawn’s surprise visit to Killadelphia this week

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The Eisner Award nominated Killadelphia from writer Rodney Barnes and collaborator Jason Shawn Alexander—the artist who redefined Todd McFarlane’s legendary Spawn for a whole new generation—welcomes the iconic Spawn for a surprise appearance in this week’s issue Killadelphia #30 on shelves.

The Killadelphia series follows a small-town cop who returns home to bury his murdered father, revered Philadelphia detective James Sangster Sr. What he doesn’t anticipate is digging up a mystery that will lead him down a path of horrors and shake his beliefs to their core. The city that was once the symbol of liberty and freedom has fallen prey to corruption, poverty, unemployment, brutality… and vampires. Now, it’s up to Jimmy and an unexpected companion to stop long-thought-dead president of the United States John Adams from building an undead army and staging a bloody new American revolution.

In this latest arc, villains have become heroes, with the line between good and evil blurred beyond recognition. Philadelphia is ravaged by the war between Heaven and Hell, and our heroes are DEAD…But from the ashes of despair comes the spark of hope that will set up a bold new direction for this series…and things will never be the same. The multiple-reprint Eisner Award-nominated horror series reaches the end of this story arc with even more shocking surprises! It all starts here!

Head to your favorite comic book retailer to pick up this can’t miss issue of Killadelphia and add it to your local comic shop pull-list:

  • Cover A by Alexander – Diamond Code FEB230191
  • Cover B by J.A.W. Cooper – Diamond Code FEB230192
  • Cover C by Alexander B&W Noir Edition – Diamond Code FEB230193

Blacula: Return of the King sells through its first printing

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Zombie Love Studios, the newly launched publishing home to the work of Rodney Barnes released the first of its 2023 releases in January with the critically acclaimed sequel to the classic 1972 film Blacula from the team behind the hit Image Comics series Killadelphia; writer Rodney Barnes and artist Jason Shawn Alexander. Less than two months later, the first printing of Blacula: Return of The King has sold out at Diamond, with the last remaining copies on shelves in comic shops and bookstores.

Set in Los Angeles, two souls; one looking for vengeance and the other seeking the truth, share one thing in common; they are both searching for the legendary vampire Blacula. Tina Thomas is a reporter for the blog Dark Knights, which chronicles all things unnatural, uneasy, and undead. She meets a young man named Kross, who asked her to help him kill Blacula, after his family was forever changed by the vampire. 

Blacula: Return of the King brings the same high emotional stakes storytelling fans have come to expect from the long-running vampire epic Killadelphia to the classic characher, redefining and reinventing him for a modern audience seeking thought-provoking horror in comics and beyond.

Blacula: Return of The King 

Adam Cahoon joins The Nasty as the new series artist

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Vault Comics has announced that Adam Cahoon will be the new series artist for The Nasty beginning with the third issue. Cahoon has already contributed art to the first two issues of The Nasty, written by John Lees with letters by Jim Campbell. 

Equal parts Friday The 13th, Giant Days, Empire Records, and The Ring, The Nasty is a story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR! 

The Nasty follows eighteen-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favourite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” – films so scary, they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn. But it’s only a movie, right? It’s all just imaginary, isn’t it?

The Nasty #1 hits store shelves in March 2023, and will feature a full suite of gorgeously terrifying variant covers from some of the hottest artists in comics, including Killadelphia’s Jason Shawn Alexander, Giant Days’ Max Sarin, Nightfall: Double Feature’s Maan House, Door to Door Night by Night’s Sally Cantirino, Barbaric’s Robert Wilson IV, & more.

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Get a new look at Vault’s Nightfall: Double Feature #1

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Vault Comics has unveiled the second of two first look previews for Nightfall: Double Feature #1. This preview showcases Denizen, the second of the series’ two feature stories. 

Denizen is written by Tim Daniel and David Andry, drawn by Chris Shehan, colored by Jason Wordie, and lettered by Jim Campbell. 

A family’s cross country road trip goes off the map and into the unforgiving wilds of Joshua Tree National Park, when mom and wife-to-be Helene succumbs to a malevolent force tucked inside an abandoned camping trailer.

Nightfall: Double Feature is brand new series of double-sized comics that contain two separate ongoing horror stories from the creators behind House of Slaughter, The Autumnal, The Plot, and Resonant. Grab your popcorn and clamber into your sleeping bag for two tales of terror just like a classic drive-in movie experience.

Feature one is The Cemeterians, written by New York Times Best-Selling author Daniel Kraus, drawn by Ringo Award nominee Maan House, colored by Kurt Michael Russell, and lettered by Andworld Design. After human bones begin growing inside inanimate objects all across the globe, a renegade scientist and brilliant theologian delve into the cemeteries where the bones originated, discovering an otherworldly force tired of being buried in darkness.

Feature two is Denizen, written by Tim Daniel and David Andry, drawn by Chris Shehan, colored by Jason Wordie, and lettered by Jim Campbell.  A family’s cross country road trip goes off the map and into the unforgiving wilds of Joshua Tree National Park, when mom and wife-to-be Helene succumbs to a malevolent force tucked inside an abandoned camping trailer.

Nightfall: Double Feature #1 will hit store shelves on October 26th, and will feature three chilling open-order covers by Jason Shawn Alexander, Chris Shehan, and Maan House.

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Prepare yourself for a first look at Nightfall: Double Feature #1

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Vault Comics has unveiled a look at Nightfall: Double Feature #1. The preview showcases The Cemetarians, a terrifying new tale written by Daniel Kraus, drawn by Maan House, colored by Kurt Michael Russell, and lettered by Andworld Design. 

Nightfall: Double Feature is brand new series of double-sized comics that contain two separate ongoing horror stories from the creators behind House of Slaughter, The Autumnal, The Plot, and Resonant. Grab your popcorn and clamber into your sleeping bag for two tales of terror just like a classic drive-in movie experience.

Feature one is The Cemetrians, written by Daniel Kraus, drawn by Maan House, colored by Kurt Michael Russell, and lettered by Andworld Design. After human bones begin growing inside inanimate objects all across the globe, a renegade scientist and brilliant theologian delve into the cemeteries where the bones originated, discovering an otherworldly force tired of being buried in darkness.

Feature two is Denizen, written by Tim Daniel and David Andry, drawn by Chris Shehan, colored by Jason Wordie, and lettered by Jim Campbell.  A family’s cross country road trip goes off the map and into the unforgiving wilds of Joshua Tree National Park, when mom and wife-to-be Helene succumbs to a malevolent force tucked inside an abandoned camping trailer.

Nightfall: Double Feature #1 will hit store shelves this October, and it will feature three chilling covers by Jason Shawn Alexander, Chris Shehan, & Maan House.

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Vault reveals Nightfall: Double Feature #1 variant covers

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Vault Comics has announced the full, terrifying variant lineup for Nightfall: Double Feature #1. Featuring a murderers row of the medium’s greatest horror artists, this variant line will launch the year’s great horror comic event that cannot be missed!

The Nightfall: Double Feature #1 variant lineup features:

  • Maan House (Killadelphia, Cutter, Witchblade)
  • Chris Shehan (Something is Killing the Children: House of Slaughter, The Autumnal)
  • Jason Shawn Alexander (Killadelphia, Spawn, The Empty Zone)
  • Skylar Patridge (Resonant, Wonder Woman)
  • Joshua Hixson (The Plot, Children of the Woods, Shanghai Red) 
  • Tula Lotay (Bodies, Supreme: Blue Rose, All-Star Batman)

Nightfall: Double Feature #1 is brand new series of double-sized comics that contain two separate ongoing horror stories from the creators behind House of Slaughter, The Autumnal, The Plot, and Resonant. Grab your popcorn and clamber into your sleeping bag for two tales of terror just like a classic drive-in movie experience.

Nightfall: Double Feature #1 will hit store shelves this October.

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