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Preview: Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

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Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum (A/CA) Scott Hepburn
In Shops: Apr 03, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The hit superhero saga that’s Watchmen meets The Wire returns from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum and superstar artist Scott Hepburn. Frankie Follis AKA the costumed criminal Playtime has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero The Insomniac and its greatest villain The Stickman are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel her consigliere is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown. In the vein of Sin City, Black Hammer, and The Boys, this noir-ish superhero caper, focuses on a lower-class kind of criminal, similar to the Coen Bros most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains.

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

Preview: Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

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Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

(W) Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum (A/CA) Scott Hepburn
In Shops: Apr 03, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The hit superhero saga that’s Watchmen meets The Wire returns from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum and superstar artist Scott Hepburn. Frankie Follis AKA the costumed criminal Playtime has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero The Insomniac and its greatest villain The Stickman are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel her consigliere is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown. In the vein of Sin City, Black Hammer, and The Boys, this noir-ish superhero caper, focuses on a lower-class kind of criminal, similar to the Coen Bros most pulpy films, but set in a high concept world of heroes and villains.

Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down #1

From the world of Minor Threats, Barfly buzzes into shops in July!

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Dark Horse Comics is buzzing with some exciting news: the world of Minor Threats continues expanding with a new spinoff series, Barfly! Comic book legend Kyle Starks joins Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum on writing duties on a feel-good, coming-of-age series about an insect monster-man searching for his identity in the criminal underworld of Twilight City. Ryan Browne, co-creator of the critically-acclaimed series Eight Billion Genies, will provide artwork for Barfly, with letters handled by Nate Piekos. The first issue will also feature a main cover art by Minor Threats co-creator Scott Hepburn, with three variant covers featuring art by Browne, Martín Morazzo, Dan Hipp (1:10 ratio), and one more to be revealed at a later date. The series is set to begin this July.

Back in Twilight City…

The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags… but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly, is a loser–a lifelong minion who lives to serve his criminal master. But what happens to a henchman when he no longer has anyone left to hench for? 

From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly #1 (of 4) flies into comic shops on July 10, 2024. It is now available to pre-order from your local comic shop for $4.99.

The C-Class supervillains finally take over in Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn’s Minor Threats II: The Fastest Way Down

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Everyone’s favorite c-list supervillains return in April 2024 in Minor Threats: The Fastest Way Down! The hit superhero saga from Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn picks up right where it left off with the same creative team: written by Oswalt and Blum, illustrated by Hepburn, colored by Ian Herring, and lettered by Eisner-nominated letterer Nate Piekos. Joining the squad on issue #1 are variant cover artists: Michael Allred, Joëlle Jones, Hepburn (foil variant), David Mack (1:10 retail incentive variant), Martin Simmonds (1:25 retailer incentive variant), and one more variant cover artist who will be revealed at a later date.

Frankie Follis, AKA the costumed criminal Playtime, has won. Twilight City’s greatest hero, The Insomniac, and its greatest villain, The Stickman, are dead, allowing Frankie to unify the super crook underworld and assert herself as the Queenpin of Redport. But Frankie is feeling the pressure from every side. Rival gangs are challenging her authority, Scalpel, her consigliere, is pushing her to legitimize her empire, and the act of murdering The Insomniac has broken something deep inside her. Frankie is about to learn the hard way… heavy is the head that wears the supervillain crown.

Minor Threats ll: The Fastest Way Down #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on April 3, 2024. This issue and all its brilliant variant covers are now available to pre-order for $4.99 at your local comic shop.

IDW’s Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 gets a bloody second printing

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IDW Publishing has revealed that fans will get a second stab at the critically-acclaimed new cozy horror series Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees, featuring an all-new cover by the title’s writer-artist Patrick Horvath and a quote by comedian and comic writer Patton Oswalt.

Between praiseworthy reviews and non-stop positive word of mouth among fans and retailers, Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 has quickly sold out at the distributor level and will have a bloody second printing arriving 12/13/23, which is the same day that the shocking second issue will be available in comic shops as well.

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 2nd printing

Get an exclusive variant of From the World of Minor Threats: The Alternates #3 at the Comic Creators Block Party

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This year’s San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con may be behind us now, but there’s a new event celebrating comic creators in the Los Angeles area happening this October! On Saturday, October 28, the shop Revenge Of, with Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, are hosting a Comic Creators Block Party celebrating all things comics! The event will feature panel discussions, signings, food, giveaways, cosplay, and more.

In partnership with Dark Horse Comics, Revenge Of will also offer an exclusive cover of From the World of Minor Threats: The Alternates #3 by Minor Threats artist Scott Hepburn. The Alternates #3 issue featuring this variant cover will be available early at the Comic Creators Block Party event, and will be available online from Revenge Of at www.revengeof.com and in-store on November 15. This special variant will only be available from Revenge Of, so don’t miss it!

Event details: On October 28, fans are invited to join Revenge Of, Patton Oswalt, and Jordan Blum for a comic creator-packed one-day event chock full of panels, signings, giveaways, cosplay, and more. So far, more than 30 creators have been announced, including current Dark Horse creators Jody Houser, Marc Bernardin, Tess Fowler, Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Tim Sheridan, and more.

Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum return to Minor Threats with The Alternates

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Dark Horse Comics presents From the World of Minor Threats: The Alternates, a new superhero series spinning out of the hit Minor Threats!This time, the Minor Threats team explores b-list superheroes who struggle to reclaim their mediocre lives in a support group. Joining Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum on writing duties is Tim Seeley, with illustrations by Christopher Mitten and Tess Fowler, colors by Ian Herring, and lettering by Nate Piekos. Scott Hepburn will provide the main cover art (which will also feature a foil variant), with variant covers by Tim Seeley, Fabio Moon, Martin Simmonds, and more. 

Mary the Multi-Monster! The Tripper! Crab Louie! Kid Curious! Persona! Formerly the offbeat b-list superheroes, The Alternates, who seemingly sacrificed themselves to stop an invasion from another dimension. Instead, they were transported to a mirror reality where they lived complex lives in a more four-dimensional existence–expanding both their powers and consciousness. Five years later, they’ve returned to Twilight City, struggling to reacclimate to their old lives in a traditional two-dimensional superhero world–in withdrawal from the vivid ones they left behind. When elements from this alternate reality turn up as a dangerous new street drug, some of the heroes band together to destroy it, while others succumb to its temptation.

The Alternates #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops September 13, 2023.

It’s A Quick End to a Long Beginning for Minor Threats

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Minor Threats, the first creator-owned comic series from Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, showrunners of Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K on Hulu, receives a new paperback collection in Minor Threats Volume 1: A Long End to a New Beginning. Artist Scott Hepburn, colorist Ian Herring, and letterer Nate Piekos, round out this super-creative team. The collected volume will also include pin-up artwork from Mike Mignola, Kevin Maguire, Francesco Francavilla, and Tess Fowler.

It’s hard out there for a supervillain. Not the world conquerors, chaos engines, or arch-nemeses…but the little guys, the career criminals. The ones who put on uniforms, knock over jewelry stores, and get tied to telephone poles before the hero swings off to face the actual big bad. Times are tough for costumed crooks, and they’re about to get much worse. The psychotic Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City’s premier crime-fighter, The Insomniac. The Insomniac’s teammates, The Continuum, are tearing Twilight apart, turning it into a terrifying police state–desperate to capture the Stickman and stop the Insomniac from “crossing that final line” in which he may never come back from. Caught in the middle are the small-time c-list villains, finding it impossible to pull jobs or even walk down the street without being harassed by these heroes. With a bounty on the Stickman’s head, former villain Playtime decides to put together a ragtag team of equally disgruntled supervillains to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves, leading her on a dark journey into the criminal underbelly she’s tried so hard to escape.

Minor Threats Volume 1: A Quick End to a Long Beginning TPB explodes into bookstores June 20 and into comic shops June 21, 2023. The book collects 136 pages and measures 6.625 x 10.1875”. It is now available to pre-order for $19.99 at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore.

Minor Threats Volume 1: A Quick End to a Long Beginning TPB

The Massive-Verse series No/One gets a teaser trailer

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Six months ago, the Richard Roe murders shocked the city of Pittsburgh. In the months since, the killings have sparked a dangerous political movement, copycat killers, and a masked vigilante who’s still determined to hold the powerful accountable. Not a symbol. Not a hero. They could be anyone. They’re NO/ONE.

Writers Kyle Higgins and Brian Buccellato and artist Geraldo Borges bring you the oversized first chapter of a true crime-style superhero experience in its own corner of the MASSIVE-VERSE in the forthcoming comic book series NO/ONE.

Plus, the story continues in “WHO IS NO/ONE,” a monthly companion podcast starring Rachael Leigh Cook (She’s All That) and Patton Oswalt (Minor Threats, Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.), available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and Spotify! Visit: https://blackmarket.la/no-one/ for more information.

NO/ONE is part of the Massive-Verse alongside Radiant Black, Radiant Red, Rogue Sun, The Dead Lucky, Inferno Girl Red, Radiant Pink, C.O.W.L., Supermassive, and more to come!

  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR A BORGES – JAN230061
  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR B MONTES – JAN230062
  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR C ENGLERT – JAN230063
  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR D 10 COPY INCV WHALEN – JAN230064
  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR E 25 COPY INCV MAHFOOD – JAN230065
  • NO/ONE #1 (OF 10) CVR F 50 COPY INCV BORGES & COSTA – JAN230066

NO/ONE enters the Massive-Verse with a comic and companion podcast

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Superstar writers Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, and rising star artist Geraldo Borges bring fans a “true crime”-style superhero drama in the upcoming, NO/ONE. This all-new ten issue comic book maxiseries will join Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Radiant Red, The Dead Lucky, Radiant Pink, Inferno Girl Red, and C.O.W.L. in the expanding shared Massive-Verse from Image Comics in March 2023.

This new comic features some unique twists—its story will be expanded upon with an original monthly companion podcast titled, WHO IS NO/ONE, which will star Rachael Leigh Cook and Patton Oswalt as Pittsburgh Ledger reporters Julia Paige and Teddy Barstow. Higgins’ “Black Market Narrative” will produce the audio series with Higgins in the director’s chair, esteemed sound supervisor Matthew E. Taylor to supervise, C.O.W.L. co-creator and Black Market Narrative editor, Alec Siegel, to sound edit, Emmy-award winning composer Kristopher Carter to score the audio series, and there will be mixing in Dolby Atmos for spatial audio on supported platforms. NO/ONE colorist and esteemed poster artist Mark Englert will create exclusive episode posters each month, which will also be released as a line of “podcast variant” covers.

The world of NO/ONE will also feature an interactive, alternate reality game (ARG) narrative across in-universe social media accounts, websites, and other audio/visual elements (fans should be sure to follow: 

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The Richard Roe murders shocked the city of Pittsburgh. In the months since, the killings have sparked a dangerous political movement, copycat killers, and a masked vigilante who’s still determined to hold the powerful accountable. Not a symbol. Not a hero. They could be anyone. They’re NO/ONE.

NO/ONE #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, March 15:

  • Cover A by Borges – Diamond Code JAN230061
  • Cover B by Montes – Diamond Code JAN230062
  • Cover C by Englert – Diamond Code JAN230063
  • Cover D 1:10 copy incentive by Whalen – Diamond Code JAN230064
  • Cover E 1:25 copy incentive by Mahfood – Diamond Code JAN230065
  • Cover F 1:50 copy incentive by Borges & Costa – Diamond Code JAN230066
NO/ONE #1
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