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Preview: Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

(W) Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks (A/CA) David Rubin
In Shops: Apr 24, 2024
SRP: $3.99

From the New York Times-bestselling hosts of the hit The Last Podcast on the Left and Black Hammer’s David Rubin comes the second installment of the humorous, horror, and action-packed comic book series that’s Near Dark meets Ocean’s Eleven. Our ragtag group of young, alienated vampires head down to the swamps of Florida to disrupt a nasty ancient vampire party and to put into motion “Operation Sunshine”-their plot to steal a magical object that can turn themselves back to human and put an end to the elder vampires once and for all.

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

Preview: Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

(W) Henry Zebrowski, Marcus Parks (A/CA) David Rubin
In Shops: Apr 24, 2024
SRP: $3.99

From the New York Times-bestselling hosts of the hit The Last Podcast on the Left and Black Hammer’s David Rubin comes the second installment of the humorous, horror, and action-packed comic book series that’s Near Dark meets Ocean’s Eleven. Our ragtag group of young, alienated vampires head down to the swamps of Florida to disrupt a nasty ancient vampire party and to put into motion “Operation Sunshine”-their plot to steal a magical object that can turn themselves back to human and put an end to the elder vampires once and for all.

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1

The Bugs Head South in Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski’s Operation Sunshine: Already Dead

Did you think that four issues were enough for our ragtag team of bugs to turn themselves human and live happily ever after? Not even close! Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski’s Operation Sunshine continues with Operation Sunshine: Already Dead. Written by Parks and Zebrowski, illustrated by David Rubín, colored by K.J. Diaz, and lettered by Ferran DelgadoOperation Sunshine: Already Dead #1 will also feature variant covers by Martin Simmonds and Tyler Jenkins, with a final variant cover to be revealed at a later date.

In Operation Sunshine: Already Dead, the group of young, alienated vampires heads down to the swamps of Florida to disrupt a nasty ancient vampire party and to put into motion “Operation Sunshine”–their plot to steal a magical object that can turn themselves back to human and put an end to the elder vampires once and for all.

Operation Sunshine: Already Dead #1 (of 4) travels to comic shops on April 24, 2024. It is now available to pre-order at your local comic shop for $3.99. 

SDCC 2023: Henry Zebrowski and Marcus Parks’ Operation Sunshine arrives this October

Dark Horse Comics presents Operation Sunshine, an all-new humorous horror series from the New York Times bestsellers and hosts of The Last Podcast on the Left, Henry Zebrowski and Marcus Parks. David Rubín joins as artist, along with K.J. Diaz as colorist, and Ferran Delgado as letterer. Operation Sunshine #1 will also feature variant covers by David Aja and Malachi Ward.

A group of young, alienated vampires known as “bugs” plot to steal a magical object from ancient monstrous vampires to turn themselves back to human. Along the way they uncover a sprawling monster underground, a top-secret plot run by the elder creatures, elite militant vampire slayers, and madness beyond imagining blocking their path to humanity.

Operation Sunshine #1 (of 4) comes to life on October 11, 2023, just in time for Halloween. It is now available to pre-order for $3.99 at your local comic shop.

The Triptych of Terror comes to The Last Comic Book on the Left

The fevered minds behind The Last Podcast on the LeftMarcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel, have once more joined unholy forces with Z2 Comics for a third tome in the The Last Comic Book on the Left series. Overflowing with stories equally heretic and hilarious, this new anthology has ensnared a new batch of writers and artists to conjure more macabre and profane sequential art inspired by the podcast, featuring doomed descents into Norwegian Black Metal, the Andreasson Affair, the Hollow Moon, and the Edgewood Arsenal (among others). 

What other degenerates have been recruited into this brochure of the wicked? 

  • Eliot Rahal (Amelia Aierwood: Basic Witch, Cheech & Chong’s Chronicles)
  • Bob Fingerman (Minimum WageBeg the Question)
  • Brennan Wagner (Blondie: Against the Odds)
  • Jenna Cha (Black Stars Above)
  • Grim Wilkins (Mirenda, Prophet)
  • Maria Lovett (Faithless, Porcelain)
  • Josh Simmons (Black River, Flayed Corpse)
  • Bayard Morse (The Last Comic Book on the Left)
  • Eryk Donovan (Heavy, Memetic
  • Jade Young 
  • Jensine Eckwall

In addition, Marcus Parks and Henry Zebrowski will step out from the bullpen to write their own stories in this new volume. Legendary creator Matt Wagner (MageGrendel) provides the cover art for the deluxe edition with repeat offender Bob Fingerman returning to provide cover art on the standard edition; Rob Schwager illustrated the hardback. 

Like the first two volumes of The Last Comic Book on the Left, a series of prints will come bundled with deluxe editions of the book. Artists and subjects include:

  • Maria Lovett, Vampires
  • Rob Schwager, The Flatwoods Monster 
  • Jade Young, Curse of the Kelpie 

WonderCon 2023: Z2 Comics and the Last Podcast on the Left crew take Anaheim

Z2 Comics WonderCon 2023

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVES. Darkness will consume Southern California next week as The Last Podcast on the Left trio of Ben, Marcus, and Henry storm the Anaheim Convention Center to celebrate The Last Comic Book on the Left Vol. 2! A graphic anthology channeling the sordid (and often hilarious) tales of horror and crime from their podcast, The Last Podcast on the Left Vol. 2 pairs the hosts with such comic necromancers as James Tynion IV, Tyler Boss, Lonnie Nadler, and many more.

Ben, Marcus, Henry, and comic artist Tom Neely will be at WonderCon 2023, sharpies and podiums in hand, to sign all the books, make all the jokes, and shake all the hands. See Z2 Comics’ full WonderCon 2022 Schedule below!   

Friday, 3/24

The Last Comic Book on the Left Signing with Ben, Marcus, Henry, and Tom Neely
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Z2 Comics Booth 1500

Saturday, 3/25

Z2 Comics Presents: The Last Comic Book on the Left with Marcus, Henry & Ben
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Room: 209

Ben KisselMarcus Parks, and Henry Zebrowski have been filling our ears with laughs and shrieks for over a decade with The Last Podcast on the Left. Last summer, their hilarious, obsessively-researched tales of the morbid and morose transcended mediums for The Last Comic Book on the Left, a chilling anthology filled with Last Podcast icons including Detective Popcorn, sexy Mothman, and John Wayne Gacy. A second volume just resurrected to fill your panels and nightmares with even more untold horrors. Join Marcus, Henry, and Ben for a hilarious panel filled with tons of heart—both metaphorical and literal.

The Last Comic Book on the Left Signing with Ben, Marcus, and Henry
12:30 PM -1:30 PM
Z2 Comics Booth 1500

The Last Comic Book on the Left Rises for Volume Two

Following the launch of The Last Comic Book on the Left this summer, curators of the grotesque Marcus Parks, Henry Zebrowski, and Ben Kissel will return this Fall with a new volume stuffed with  tales disgusting, disturbing, and perversely delightful. Alongside the clandestine organization known as Z2 Comics, the minds behind Last Podcast on the Left have recruited a new batch of victims creators devoted to ushering terror and hilarity onto panel and page for The Last Comic Book on the Left Volume 2. These conjurors of the profane will unleash new tales featuring Bigfoot, Philip K. Dick android, Gef the Talking Mongoose, the return of the Well Actually Killer, Alcatraz island, the Manson Family, and more sad, buttery goodness from Detective Popcorn.

What deviants are responsible for this debauchery? 

  • James Tynion IV (The Department of TruthSomething Is Killing the Children)
  • Rick Veitch (Swamp ThingMiracleman)
  • Bob Fingerman (Minimum WageBeg the Question)
  • Ian McGinty (Adventure TimeInvader Zim)
  • Tom Neely (Henry & Glen Forever)
  • Lonnie Nadler (Black Stars Above, X-Men)
  • Brandon Montclare (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur)
  • Butch Mapa (Avengers)
  • Masa Minoura (Genesis One: A Poppy Graphic Novel
  • Jensine Eckwall (Almost A Full Moon)
  • Tyler Boss (4 Kids Walk Into a BankWhat’s the Furthest Place From Here?)
  • Eliot Rahal (Machine Gun Kelly’s Hotel Diablo, the upcoming Cheech and Chong’s Chronicles: The Graphic Novel)
  • Logan Faerber
  • Bayard Morse

Like the first volume of The Last Comic Book on the Left, a series of prints will come bundled with deluxe editions of the book. Artists and subjects include: 

  • Koren Shadmi, Alien…um…accessories
  • Ashley Ross, Hail Yourself 
  • Butch Mapa, The Birdman of Alcatraz
  • Jenna Cha, Sexy Mothman
  • Zack Pape, Jeffrey Dahmer’s Apartment 
  • Joefur, Last Podcast on the Left Medley
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