What Diana seeks inside the maze seems to elude her at every turn. And as things unravel around her, she finds herself questioning everything, even her mission. Meanwhile, in Gateway City, an old obligation has raised its head…violently!
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The blood gets pumping when death is administered to the hospital, and two of the game’s deadliest killers meet-cute at the concert hall.
Story: James Tynion IV, Pornsak Pichetshote Art: Michael Walsh, Valentine De Landro Color: Jordie Bellaire Letterer: Becca Carey
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The highly successful, critical hit Exquisite Corpses—by masterminds James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, and the “Corpse Crew” of creators—has sold out yet again at the distributor level. Image Comics will rush both issue #1 and #2 of this hot new thriller from Tiny Onion back to print this week in order to keep up with escalating reorder activity.
In Exquisite Corpses, every five years on Halloween, the wealthiest families in America play a game. Twelve of the deadliest people in the world are dropped into a small town with just one goal: last killer standing wins. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine—this year’s unlucky arena—the goal is much simpler. They must survive the night.
Exquisite Corpses #2 features a knife-wielding zealot covered in human skin, a heartthrob with an axe, a pint-sized sociopath with a high-powered drone, and so much more…the killers are descending on Oak Valley—and the body count is rising. Walsh and Tynion IV are joined by rising star Marianna Ignazzi (Catwoman) for this bloody chapter to the story.
The series came together in a writers’ room led by Tynion IV and Walsh and made up of “Corpse Crew” comics superstars Adam Gorham, Becca Carey, Che Grayson, Claire Roe, Gavin Fullerton, Jordie Bellaire, Marianna Ignazzi, Pornsak Pichetshote, Tyler Boss, and Valentine De Landro. Each issue of the series builds upon the last in a true ‘exquisite corpse’ game style, with a passing of the storytelling baton from creator-to-creator in a collaborative and competitive fashion.
Exquisite Corpses begins with a 13-issue story arc, but its world will expand with additional stories. There is also a companion trading card game and fans can collect killer cards early with ones exclusively found in polybagged Cover C variants of each issue. Fans eager to play the game early can collect all 13 polybagged issues to make a complete card deck set.
Exquisite Corpses #1, third printing (Lunar Code 0425IM896), Exquisite Corpses #2, second printing (Lunar Code 0425IM897), and Exquisite Corpses #2, second printing polybag (Lunar Code 0425IM898) will all be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 30.
CAN DIANA ESCAPE THE MAZE?! The temptation of everything Diana has ever wanted lies just inside, but also, untold horrors and no known escape. Diana has entered the maze, and nothing will ever be the same again.
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DSTLRY has announced the Special Edition of The City Beneath Her Feet#1, co-created by James Tynion IV and Elsa Charretier. Arriving in comic shops September 10, this high-end version of the grindhouse hit features a brand-new cover by Charretier and 2025 Eisner nominee colorist Jordie Bellaire, offering fans and collectors new neon eye candy for their library of New York City assassins and chaotic romance. The City Beneath Her Feet #1: Special Edition weighs in at 56 pages for $8.99, available to order via Penguin Random House.
The City Beneath Her Feet follows Zara, a writer caught in a deadly web of secrets after learning that an unforgettable ex, Jasper Jayne, is a world-class assassin.
The Special Edition kicks off the relaunch of the award nominated series that was interrupted by industry setbacks earlier this year. The City Beneath Her Feet’s adrenaline-doused blend of violence, romance, and infectious dialogue built a vocal fan following and glowing reviews upon its initial release, and this new printing allows curious readers to experience the blockbuster debut before diving into future 48-page chapters in months to come, released in seven-week intervals.
Issue #2 and issue #3 of the series will also be printed with matte interior stock to show off Bellaire’s award-nominated color palette.
A knife-wielding zealot covered in human skin. A heartthrob with an axe. A pint-sized sociopath with a high-powered drone. The killers are descending on Oak Valley—and the body count is rising.
Story: James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh Art: Michael Walsh, Marianna Ignazzi Color: Jordie Bellaire Letterer: Becca Carey
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(W) James Tynion IV (A) Jordie Bellaire (A/CA) Fernando Blanco In Shops: Jun 11, 2025 SRP: $3.99
What remains of the planet in 2049 is barely hospitable. The Undernet has won. Ellison Lane believes he finally has all the pieces to give humanity another shot at a future. But to do so, he’ll need help from the last surviving member of the original w0rldtr33 gang…
DC Pride 2025 #1 is a little different from the previous installments of DC Pride in that it’s not a collection of short stories featuring LGBTQ+ DC Comics characters, but is a single narrative centered around a gay bar that Alan Scott frequented in the 1930s and told predominantly from the POV of a new character named Ethan, who is a trans military veteran that ends up caught up a kind of multiversal/elemental saga. I applaud the scope of this comic book, which has big jam session energy as different characters end up in different pocket realities based on wishes they made at the gay bar or graffiti they scrawled. We get Apollo and Midnighter living in 1950s domestic bliss courtesy of Sam Maggs and Derek Charm, a single, psychiatric girl boss Harley Quinn from Maya Houston, Max Sarin, and Marissa Louise ; and a gorgeous sapphic romance between Jo Mullein and Nubia from Houston, Vita Ayala, and Vincent Cecil to name a few. The reading effect is like jumping from comic to comic and look at paths not trodden with some iconic queer characters and a few new or not so iconic ones.
As Tim Sheridan, Giulio Macaione, and Emilio Pilliu Alan Scott-centric frame story shows, fighting supervillains and having superpowers is a metaphor for being queer in DC Pride 2025. It might be tempting to give up and lie low, especially with the United States’ hard turn to fascism, and homophobia and transphobia promoted by folks in power, but Alan Scott, Ethan, and their companions’ actions in the comic act as a clarion call to resistance. The stuff with the Crimson Flame and Scott having his own Red Lantern is a little Geoff Johnsian for my taste, but it’s so cool to watch Alan Scott have a Sailor Moon type transformation sequence and return into action to help save the next generation of queer heroes symbolized by Ethan. I love Macaione’s use of greens to show a possible, idyllic future for Scott and a non-Red Lantern/Russian spy Johnny Ladd, but it’s a happiness based on a lie like the other possible futures in the book.
However, DC Pride 2025 isn’t all serious action and has a lot of humor and playfulness. Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Alex Moore recontextualize Golden Age Z-list Wonder Woman villain Blue Snowman coming to terms with their gender fluidity alongside nonbinary superhero Envoy in one vignette. I love how they poke fun at the restrictions of the gender binary using the classic tropes of a superhero brawl, and how even well meaning cisgender people can be just plain annoying at times. It’s so cool seeing this kind of story and voice in a mainstream, corporate comic showing that nonbinary characters don’t just have to be righteous heroes, but can be kind of messy too. DC Pride 2025 really hits the spectrum of queer identities, including asexuality with Connor Hawke getting a short story where he resists his father’s reputation as a womanizer and just wants to live his own life. I have to give a special shout out to Philip Sevy’s art in this short sequence, which seems like it’s right out of the late 1990s period where he was member of the JLA. Both the visual and character variety of DC Pride 2025 makes it an engaging read, and the book is a testament to the active work that DC Comics has done to cultivate LGBTQ+ characters in the past decade or so. (I need a monthly Midnighter and/or Apollo book though.)
After a wild and wacky cosmic adventure set in the DC Multiverse, DC Pride 2025 wraps up with a beautiful nonfiction storyfrom Jenny Blake and Sara Soler about Blake coming out as a transgender woman earlier this year. It has gorgeous soft lines and a refreshing color palette to go with Jenny Blake’s honest and humorous script about how old comics about Clark Kent switching genders had an influence on her own gender identity journey. I love how Soler inserts different DC characters into the panel to blur the line between fantasy and non-fiction with Blake’s most famous co-creation Black Lightning making an appearance as well as transgender superheroine Dreamer, who shares coffee with Blake. The story shows that you’re never too old to be your authentic self and hints at a longer graphic memoir, which I hope Jenny Blake gets to realize at DC or elsewhere.
DC Pride 2025 is an ambitious comic with summer crossover energy that tells an epic story with DC’s LGBTQ+ characters while still taking time to dig into their individual hopes, fears, and dreams. It’s a showcase of queer representation on the page and on the issue’s creative teams, and Blake and Sara Soler’s memoir is a beautiful coda and rallying cry to continue to be queer and fearless in an increasingly dark and hateful world.
Story: Vita Ayala, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Maya Houston Story: Sam Maggs, Tim Sheridan, Josh Trujillo, Jenny Blake Art: Don Aguillo, Vincent Cecil, Derek Charm, A.L. Kaplan, Giulio Macaione Art: Emilio Pilliu, Max Sarin, Philip Sevy, Sara Soler, Alex Moore, Skyler Patridge Colors: Eren Angiolini, Jordie Bellaire, Triona Farrell, Marissa Louise Letters: Aditya Bidikar, Frank Cvetkovic, Lucas Gattoni, Ariana Maher, Morgan Martinez, Jodie Troutman Story: 8.9 Art: 9.3 Overall: 9.1 Recommendation: Buy
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The Tetracide was a much greater threat than Wonder Woman had imagined for her first battle on the surface–but The Tetracide was child’s play compared to negotiating the complexities and evils of man’s world. The mysterious Area 41 and its Black Box Maze will be Diana’s greatest test yet…and what she finds inside will shock you!
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Wednesday’s new release of the breakout hit series Assorted Crisis Events—by writer Deniz Camp and art by Eric Zawadzki, multiple-Eisner Award winning colorist Jordie Bellaire, and letterer extraordinaire Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou—has sold out yet again at the distributor level. Image Comics will fast-track Assorted Crisis Events #2 for reprint in order to keep up with increasing customer demand.
This reprint will feature new cover art by Zawadzki.
Assorted Crisis Events #2 is a dizzying, heartbreaking, hallucinogenic trip through the endless slaughterhouse. Readers witness a man’s life cut up, ground down, and packaged for easy consumption! It’s another complete, standalone tale of time—and people—breaking down.
Time has no bounds in this world, and readers will follow in the footsteps of normal people who are just trying to get through a normal day, but instead have to deal with time loops and space portals, confused time travelers from different eras, and alternate dimensional versions of themselves…all while just taking a stroll down the street. Meanwhile, the overarching story dives into what caused the rules of time to suddenly shift, and if it’s possible to reverse the damage. Fans of Crisis on Infinite Earths, Black Mirror, and Doctor Who will enjoy this time-bending, clock-shattering new series.
Assorted Crisis Events #2, second printing (Lunar Code 0325IM893) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 25.
