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Preview: Survival Street: Radical Left #4

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Survival Street: Radical Left #4

(W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
In Shops: Jan 08, 2025
SRP: $3.99

After America is sold off to private companies, this A-B-C-Team of ex-entertainers rescues kids from cruel company towns. But Portland can’t hold everyone, and the cracks are about to break… Prepare for a radical departure in the series Library Journal called a “blisteringly satirical mash-up of Sesame Street and Robocop.” A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence, and just enough hope to keep holding on!

Survival Street: Radical Left #4

Preview: Survival Street: Radical Left #3

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Survival Street: Radical Left #3

(W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
In Shops: Dec 04, 2024
SRP: $3.99

Survival Street is an unrepentant action satire tearing through a dystopia packed with economic and humanistic cautionary tales. Chat GPT says: “Join our thrilling comic adventure! Puppets struggle against the oppressive grasp of media giant ‘Plus,’ only to confront a benevolent AI guardian. Discover the AI’s noble intent: to liberate them from manipulation. Root for the AI hero in this gripping tale of defiance and redemption!”

Survival Street: Radical Left #3

Preview: Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

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Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

(W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
In Shops: Octo 30, 2024
SRP: $3.99

It’s Blood, and Sugar-Free Sex Magic when Birdie and Gurgle crash the peaceful home of former castmate Spellya Spellington, but they aren’t the only ones blazing into town. Meanwhile, Tony and Herbert try to free some “canceled” old stars from Hollywood’s Problem Attic. A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence, and just enough hope to keep holding on.

Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

Preview: Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

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Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

(W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
In Shops: Octo 30, 2024
SRP: $3.99

It’s Blood, and Sugar-Free Sex Magic when Birdie and Gurgle crash the peaceful home of former castmate Spellya Spellington, but they aren’t the only ones blazing into town. Meanwhile, Tony and Herbert try to free some “canceled” old stars from Hollywood’s Problem Attic. A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence, and just enough hope to keep holding on.

Survival Street: The Radical Left #2

Preview: Survival Street: Radical Left #1

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Survival Street: Radical Left #1

(W) James Asmus, Jim Festante (A/CA) Abylay Kussainov
In Shops: Sep 25, 2024
SRP: $3.99

The political satire action-adventure hit series returns! After America is sold off to private companies, this A-B-C-Team of ex-entertainers rescues kids from cruel company towns. But Portland can’t hold everyone, and the cracks are about to break . . . Prepare for a radical departure in the series Library Journal called a “blisteringly satirical mash-up of Sesame Street and Robocop.” A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence, and just enough hope to keep holding on.

Survival Street: Radical Left #1

It’s puppet freedom fighters in Survival Street: The Radical Left

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Let the mayhem ensue: The surprise hit series Survival Street from Dark Horse Comics returns! 

Announcing Survival Street: The Radical Left, co-created and written by five time Harvey nom and Excelsior Award-winner, James Asmus, and the celebrated fan-favorite writer Jim Festante—featuring a star-studded creative team with illustrations by Kazakhstanian artist Abylay Kussainov, colors by Ringo Award-winning Ellie Wright, and letters by Ringo Award-winning Taylor Esposito.

This four-issue miniseries with standalone adventures is the exciting continuation of the original Survival Street series, packing an all-new punch in battles against A.I., soulless kids’ entertainment, American colonialism, and much more! 

After America is sold off to private companies, this A-B-C-Team of ex-entertainers rescues kids from cruel company towns. But Portland can’t hold everyone they rescue, and the cracks are about to break… Prepare for a radical departure in the series.

Featuring additional cover art by Ben Dewey, Juan Doe, Marie Enger, Artyom Trakhanov, and Colleen Coover, this new entry in Dark Horse Comics’ legacy of truly original creator-owned series, Survival Street: The Radical Left #1 drops in shops September 25, 2024, and is now available for preorder at your local comic shop!

Survival Street: The Radical Left #1

It’s a Contested Convention this August with Rick and Morty

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EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT RICK AND MORTY IS ABOUT TO CHANGE FOREVER! The fourth installment of five, interconnected and oversized bi-monthly specials leading up to the most important, unmissable event in Rick and Morty comics history starts here on August 14th in Rick and Morty Finals Week: Contested Convention #1 – from writers James Asmus and Jim Festante and illustrator Suzi Blake! Another day down, another final to (hopefully not) flunk – Morty’s academic reckoning of the wills is about to get wrung through the Omniverse!

As Morty’s poli-sci exam approaches, he persuades Rick to portal him to President Curtis for some much-needed extra credit. With Curtis on his way to secure his party’s presidential nomination, and Rick determined to prove even the dumbest version of him could beat Curtis, Doofus Rick’s hat is thrown in the ring! Competition heats up when Doofus announces Jerry as his VP, and Beth joins the race to become the first female president. It’s gonna be one contested convention!

Featuring covers from an all-star cast of cosmic talents Suzi Blake, Sam Grinberg, and Marc Ellerby, the bell is about to ring for Rick and Morty Finals Week: Contested Convention #1, coming August 14th!

The Road to the Biggest Rick and Morty Event EVER Starts with Rick and Morty: Finals Week – Five Interconnected Specials Beginning in February!

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The road to the biggest Rick & Morty event the Omniverse has ever seen begins with Rick and Morty: Finals Week – SheRick Holmes and Mortson #1 by multiple Emmy Award nominee Daniel Kibblesmith and fan-favorite artist Priscilla Tramontano — the first of five interconnected, oversized and bi-monthly one-shots from an all-star cast of cosmic talents past, present, and future! Featuring covers by Priscilla Tamontano and Phil Murphy, as well as the first of five interlocking incentive covers by Marc Ellerby, FINALS WEEK’s first ginormous, 40-page epic – on sale February 21, 2024 – launches with a time-traveling misadventure that will reverberate across the entire Rick and Morty publishing line for years to come!

The worst week of Morty’s life starts right . . . NOW! It’s Monday, and Finals Week is off to a terrible start. Morty needs a little time off from adventuring in order to study . . . until Rick announces it’s time for them to team up like that other great literary duo: Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Transported to a locked-room murder mystery in space, Morty suspects Rick isn’t looking to spend time with his Watson, but rather find his own Moriarty . . . 

And that’s only Monday… Across 2024, watch in glee as Morty – and his test scores – suffer as each day of FINALS WEEK builds toward an inescapable turning point for the Rick and Morty omniverse! Across 2024, get ready for a new (and satisfyingly hefty!) 40-page installment of FINALS WEEK to land on stores shelves every other month as Oni Press lays the groundwork for a major cosmic crucible for Rick, Morty, and a literal cast of gazillions in the year ahead: 

MONDAY

RICK AND MORTY: FINALS WEEK – SHERICK HOLMES AND MORTSON #1
Written by Daniel Kibblesmith
Art by Priscilla Tramontano
Coming in February

TUESDAY

RICK AND MORTY: FINALS WEEK – BRAWLHER #1
Written by Christof Bogacs
Art by Beck Kubrick
Coming in April

WEDNESDAY

RICK AND MORTY: FINALS WEEK – WRATH OF BETH #1
Written by Jake Black
Art by Marc Ellerby
Coming in June

THURSDAY 

RICK AND MORTY: FINALS WEEK – CONTESTED CONVENTION #1
Written by James Asmus & Jim Festante
Art by Suzi Blake
Coming in August

FRIDAY

RICK AND MORTY: FINALS WEEK – OLD MAN MORTY #1
Written by Alex Firer
Art by Fred Stresing
Coming in October

The road to the biggest omniversal Rick and Morty event ever attempted begins on February 21st only in Rick and Morty: Finals Week – Sherick Holmes and Mortson #1!

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Survival Street?!

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A candy coating of pop culture madness, humor, and cartoonishly absurd hyper-violence is heading to comic shops soon with Survival Street from Dark Horse Comics! Dashed with just enough hope to keep you holding on, Survival Street is an action satire written by five-time Harvey Award nominee James Asmus and Jim Festante, drawn and inked by Abylay Kussainov, colored by Ellie Wright, and lettered by Taylor Esposito.

After an unbridled wave of corporations take over America the country is left completely deregulated. It is effectively carved up into feudal states where billionaires and businesses make their own laws. Among the wreckage, mass privatization shuts down public broadcasting, forcing all the beloved edu-tainers out on the dirty streets. A group of them sticks together, determined to keep helping kids across the country–and to do it by becoming an A-Team-esque band of mercenaries fighting for (and educating!) kids in the crumbling, corporate war zone of New Best America.

Survival Street #1 (of 4) will be available at comic stores August 3, 2022 and is available for pre-order at your local comic shop. It is recommended for ages 14 and up.

Preview: Field Tripping

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Field Tripping

Written by James Asmus, Jim Festante
Art by Jose Garcia
Colored by Jose Garcia
Lettered by Ryan Ferrier
Purchase: comiXology – Kindle

Wouldn’t childhood have been cooler if your class could take field trips to other dimensions, to learn about infinite possibilities or strange phenomena?

NO. Because some kid would inevitably BREAK the machine and leave you trapped in an eternity of tripping between dimensions, each getting horribly and irrevocably transformed by the bizarre terrors along the way! (Assuming you’re among the survivors.)

But… at least there’s juice boxes?

Field Tripping
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