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NYCC 2025: Adam Kubert, Don Aguillo, and Serg Acuña are part of the OverPower Card Game Panel!

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OverPower NYCC 2025

OverPower is back and they’re bringing some comic guests to their New York Comic Con 2025 panel.  Adam Kubert, Don Aguillo, and Serg Acuña are all taking part in “OverPower Rising: Bringing Skybound, Top Cow and Edgar Rice Burroughs to CCGs!” The panel takes place Friday, October 10 from 2:45pm to 3:30pm in Hall 1E Community Stage.

OverPower is back after its initial release decades ago and it isn’t missing a beat. After launching the collectible card game with the characters and worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs, 2026 will see the release of new sets featuring characters from Skybound and Top Cow. To top it, the cards feature artwork from some amazing comic artists.

Those attending the panel with receive an OverPower Invincible CCG card featuring artwork from Phillip Tan! There will be additional giveaways of some autographed cards to a few lucky winners as well!

Wield “Ungodly Powers” with this OverPower Card Game Starter Deck

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The classic card game OverPower is back courtesy of Lazarus Rising Games. The card game brings together all sorts of popular properties kicking off with the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs and coming to the game are characters from Top Cow like Witchblade, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Savage Dragon, and more!

We’ve gotten some of the initial releases to show off. Check out what’s inside the “Ungodly Powers” starter deck!

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Starter Deck
Power Card Station

Lazarus Rising Games provided Board Game Today with FREE product for review

Call in the “Time Detectives” with this OverPower Card Game Starter Deck

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The classic card game OverPower is back courtesy of Lazarus Rising Games. The card game brings together all sorts of popular properties kicking off with the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs and coming to the game are characters from Top Cow like Witchblade, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Savage Dragon, and more!

We’ve gotten some of the initial releases to show off. Check out what’s inside the “Time Detectives” starter deck!

Get yours!

Starter Deck
Power Card Station

Lazarus Rising Games provided Board Game Today with FREE product for review

Join “The Resistance” with this OverPower Card Game Starter Deck

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The classic card game OverPower is back courtesy of Lazarus Rising Games. The card game brings together all sorts of popular properties kicking off with the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs and coming to the game are characters from Top Cow like Witchblade, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Savage Dragon, and more!

We’ve gotten some of the initial releases to show off. Check out what’s inside “The Resistance” starter deck!

Get yours!

Starter Deck
Power Card Station

Lazarus Rising Games provided Board Game Today with FREE product for review

We dive into Lazarus Rising Games’ resurrection of the OverPower Card Game

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The classic card game OverPower is back courtesy of Lazarus Rising Games. The card game brings together all sorts of popular properties kicking off with the creations of Edgar Rice Burroughs and coming to the game are characters from Top Cow like Witchblade, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Savage Dragon, and more!

We’ve gotten some of the initial releases to show off. So, we dive in to see what’s available and what we’ll be going further into with a focus on each release!

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Starter Deck
Power Card Station

Lazarus Rising Games provided Board Game Today with FREE product for review

SDCC 2025: OverPower brings Skybound, Top Cow, and Edgar Rice Burroughs to CCGs and SDCC

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Lazarus Rising Games (LRG) will showcase OverPower and its bevy of new elements and stunning artwork at Comic-Con International in San Diego as the popular 1990s collectible card game continues its impressive resurgence. 

OverPower will be featured over the renowned July 24-27 pop culture weekend in both an engaging panel, and an interactive booth on the convention floor. The panel, entitled “OverPower Rising: Bringing Skybound, Top Cow & Edgar Rice Burroughs to CCGs!,” will take place on Saturday, July 26 from 1:45-2:45pm in the 1,000-seat Ballroom 6DE of the San Diego Convention Center.

LRG’s OverPower convention floor space will be located in Booth #2629, and activities at the booth will feature game exhibitions, game-play merchandise (full decks, booster packs, booster boxes, power card stations, starter decks, hats, beanies), and Comic-Con exclusive giveaways – including a limited edition single-player game mat featuring never-before-seen artwork by Raymond Gay of The Darkness, and a special advance promo card from OverPower’s Invincible/Skybound-themed set coming in 2026. The Invincible card – showcasing the titular character Mark Grayson as Invincible – has been created by celebrated artist Philip Tan. 

OverPower Rising: Bringing Skybound, Top Cow & Edgar Rice Burroughs to CCGs!

Saturday, July 26 from 1:45-2:45pm
Room 6DE

In 1995, Fleer launched OverPower to an intensely rabid fanbase, quickly creating a competitive community that spanned the world. Unlike most CCGs of its time, OverPower offered a distinctly different approach to strategy and structure. Though the game was discontinued at the height of its popularity in the late 2000s, pockets of players around the country kept it alive with local communities and regular tournaments. Then a few years ago, four longtime players from across the country – businessmen who had met through tournaments and the online community – bonded together to purchase the company and reinvigorate the game. Today, they are currently producing new sets that include hot pop culture IPs like Skybound (e.g. The Walking Dead, Invincible), Top Cow (e.g. The Darkness, Witchblade, Cyberforce) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (e.g. Tarzan, John Carter), and utilizing the stellar artistry of comics superstars including Phillip Tan, Marc Silvestri, Joe Jusko, Jae Lee, Adam Kubert and more. This is the story of four self-proclaimed geeks who met through their love of a fanboy property, and have come together to revive and thrive the CCG with big plans. The panel will feature Lazarus Rising Games co-founders Ronald Pozzi & Joseph Gagnepain, original Overpower co-creator Ron Peraza, Matt Hawkins (president & COO, Top Cow), and notable comic artists Philip Tan, Jon Lam, Casey Parsons and Ito. All fans attending the panel will receive a limited edition OverPower Invincible CCG card featuring Rex Splode in artwork from Gonzalo Ordonez, and there will be an additional giveaway of some autographed cards to a few lucky winners.

Skybound’s Walking Dead and Invincible join Lazarus Rising Games’ OverPower

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Lazarus Rising Games (LRG) expands the rebirth of its legendary 1990s collectible card game OverPower with the signing of a licensing agreement with Skybound Entertainment. 

The deal will bring Skybound into the OverPower universe starting in 2026, and will feature originals from Skybound’s robust library of IP, most notably Invincible and The Walking Dead. The roster joining OverPower’s decks will include characters such as Invincible, Omni-Man, Atom Eve and Battle Beast, as well as The Walking Dead fan favorites like Rick Grimes, Michonne, Negan and Maggie.

The addition of Skybound Entertainment characters and imagery follows LRG’s recent licensing deals with Top Cow Productions, Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. – leading to the addition of Top Cow’s Witchblade, Darkness, and Cyberforce, as well as Burroughs’ iconic Tarzan of the Apes® and John Carter of Mars in the upcoming iterations of OverPower in 2025 and 2026.

Retailers will begin carrying new OverPower product on their shelves in mid-April 2025 that will feature original artwork from some of the finest artists in the comics and illustration industries today – such as Jae Lee, Jim Cheung, Raymond Gay, Phillip Tan, William Santos, and many more. OverPower will be available through ACD Distribution and GTS Distribution in the United States, while Universal Distribution will facilitate delivery in Canada. 

OverPower Skybound

In addition, LRG has created an advisory board that already features Ron Perazza, one of the original developers of the 1990s game, and Paul Bazakas, Vice President of Global Sales and Marketing for GTS Distribution.

In collaboration with Carde.io, LRG has also recently launched its player portal, which features the card library for the upcoming Edgar Rice Burroughs set, a fully-assembled Deck Builder, National Elo Rankings, an event finder, and a reward shop. Interested players can visit/join the player portal at www.OverPower.com.

LRG is also in the final planning stages for a series of major tournaments across North America, highlighted by more than $100,000 in prize pools as well as exclusive merchandise. Announcements for the tournaments are forthcoming. Further, LRG continues to showcase OverPower at conventions and events around the country, most notably at a heavily trafficked interactive booth at 2024 New York Comic Con, and as part of an informative, entertaining panel at WonderCon 2025 in Anaheim. LRG already has strategized a noticeable presence at Origins Game Fair in June 2025, and has plans to showcase OverPower at important gaming and pop culture conventions throughout the year. For the past nine months, LRG has also executed a soft rollout of the game’s new aspects and cards, including two sets that sold out immediately. 

Top Cow and Edgar Rice Burroghs are coming to Lazarus Rising Games’ OverPower relaunch

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Lazarus Rising Games has initiated its campaign to return the legendary 1990s collectible card game OverPower to its original glory, signing licensing deals with Top Cow Productions, Inc. and Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. to include the likes of Top Cow’s Witchblade, Darkness, and Cyberforce, as well as Burroughs’ iconic Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars. OverPower is set to formally relaunch in late 2024.

Formerly known as BMG & Associates, Lazarus Rising Games’ core ownership is comprised of a group who spent their youth playing OverPower – and continue to this day. Their passion for the game is the driving force of the company, and their experience ensures the game’s authenticity to its roots while relentlessly seeking new assets to infuse the game’s resurgence. As the collectible card game market has continued to once again blossom, the LRG team has sought to position OverPower at the center of that revival by appealing to the game’s loyal fans – and prospective new players – with the acquisition of new IPs, an inclusive, creative set of rules for smooth, exciting gameplay, and absolutely stunning artwork from some of the top illustrators in the games and comics industries. 

Further establishing OverPower’s footprint, LRG has entrusted production of its cards to legendary Cartamondi, the worldwide leader in “play” solutions with a global brand portfolio that boasts a suite of heritage brands that go back as far as 1848, including global brands in the CCG market like Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic The Gathering.

The licensing deal with Top Cow features characters from the company’s popular roster of properties, notably Witchblade, Darkness, Cyberforce, Cyberdata, Codename: Strykeforce, Aphrodite IX, Hunter Killer, Genius, Think Tank, Syphon and A Man Among Ye.

Beyond the deals with Top Cow & Burroughs, LRG has enlisted an impressive roster of illustrators to create images for the game, most notably renowned comic book & CCG artists Philip Tan, Jim Chung, and David Nakayama. 

LRG has already begun a soft rollout of the game’s new aspects and cards, initially offering two new sets earlier this year – which sold out immediately – for test-playing the new mechanics of the game. A new full core set is now in production with deliveries expected in early 2025, and additional expansions are in the works for Q4 of 2025. In addition, LRG is in active negotiations with a wide array of popular IPs to further enhance the game’s ever-expanding roster of beloved characters and exquisite artwork. OverPower fans and retailers are excited about the possibilities.