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Adam Cahoon joins The Nasty as the new series artist

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Vault Comics has announced that Adam Cahoon will be the new series artist for The Nasty beginning with the third issue. Cahoon has already contributed art to the first two issues of The Nasty, written by John Lees with letters by Jim Campbell. 

Equal parts Friday The 13th, Giant Days, Empire Records, and The Ring, The Nasty is a story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR! 

The Nasty follows eighteen-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favourite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” – films so scary, they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn. But it’s only a movie, right? It’s all just imaginary, isn’t it?

The Nasty #1 hits store shelves in March 2023, and will feature a full suite of gorgeously terrifying variant covers from some of the hottest artists in comics, including Killadelphia’s Jason Shawn Alexander, Giant Days’ Max Sarin, Nightfall: Double Feature’s Maan House, Door to Door Night by Night’s Sally Cantirino, Barbaric’s Robert Wilson IV, & more.

The Nasty #1

Vault announces Five New Titles

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Vault has announced not one, not two, but FIVE series that will be released in Spring 2023. Check out what’s coming to comic shops!

BARBARIC: HELL TO PAY #1

Writer: Michael Moreci
Artist: Nathan Gooden
Colorist: Addison Duke
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Designer: Tim Daniel  
Cover A & B: Nathan Gooden
January 2023

Barbaric is back and headed straight to hell in an all-new arc so big and bloody, it’s getting an extra issue! While Owen tames a dragon with an old friend, Soren and Steel cross paths with someone else from our cursed barbarian’s past…who isn’t looking nearly as friendly. Hell hath no fury like a woman stabbed through the heart by an ugly f***ing orc.

Oh, wait! Who’s carrying Axe?

GODFELL #1

Writer: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Ben Hennessy
Colorist: Triona Farrell & Vittorio Astone
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Cover A: Ben Hennessy
Cover B: Nathan Gooden
February 2023

One sunny day in the land of Kerethim, God falls dead from the sky. The impact sends out shockwaves that draw in royal families at war, shadowy creatures of the dark, and armies of the dispossessed, all coming to lay claim to parts of God’s body. Into this power struggle wanders Zanzi Vuiline, a soldier and berserker trying to get home from a years-long war. Forced to fight her way through the strange landscapes in and on God’s corpse, from the soles of its feet through the top of its head, Zanzi will acquire a mysterious traveling companion on her own pilgrimage.

THE NASTY #1

Writer: John Lees
Artist: George Kambadais
Letterer: Jim Campbell
Designer: Tim Daniel 
Cover A: George Kambadais
Cover B: Sally Cantirino
March 2023

Eighteen-year-old Thumper Connell still has an imaginary friend: the masked killer from his favourite slasher film. Thumper is obsessed with horror and always has been. He fills his time with scary VHS rentals and hanging out with his fellow fans, The Murder Club. But everything changes when his local video shop acquires one of the notorious films known as “video nasties” – films so scary, they’re the target of the British Moral Decency League’s crusade to ban and burn. But it’s only a movie, right? It’s all just imaginary, isn’t it?

A story about the perception of evil, the power of genre, the love of fandom, the need to create art, oh, and crap-your-pants TERROR!”

SONGS FOR THE DEAD: AFTERLIFE

Writer: Andrea Fort & MC Heron 
Artist: MJ Erickson
Colorist: Addison Duke
Letterer: Andworld
Cover: MJ Erickson
Designer: Tim Daniel
March 2023

Bethany is a necromancer and a hero. Along with her companions, Elissar and Jonas, she has finally found the rumored covenant. Her Perilous journey has brought her to the last bastion of the necromancers, but resurging prejudices have them in shambles. Can Bethany unite them in the face of escalating tensions? Or will the coming war shatter all of her dreams for a peaceful future? 

SONGS FOR THE DEAD: AFTERLIFE

MONEY SHOT COMES AGAIN

Writer: Tim Seeley
Artist: Gisele Lagace
Colorist: Carlos Badilla Z
Letterer: Crank!
Designer: Tim Daniel
Cover A: Gisele Lagace
Cover B: Tim Seeley & Tim Daniel
April 2023

The XXXplorers are back and on their hands and knees for the good of humanity! When the giant ass space jellyfish who run the ordered universe arrive on earth, the porn-stars-cum-science explorers must put away grudges, crushes and side hustles to once again take one or two or three for the team. Begins an epic new arc, which takes aim at dumb billionaires and bad optics, and guests stars a LEGENDARY underground comix heroine! NEW ARTIST Gisele Lagace puts her sexy spin on the book!

Vault Announces Door to Door, Night by Night from Cullen Bunn and Sally Cantirino

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Vault has announced Door to Door, Night by Night, a chilling new horror series from all-star creators Cullen Bunn and Sally Cantirino, with colors by Dee Cunniffe, letters by Andworld, and designs by Tim Daniel. 

Door to Door, Night by Night brings you the story of a motley crew, the Heritage Mills door to door sales team, who travel from town to town, knocking on doors. They’re the best at what they do… which also means they’re the worst. They’re broken, each and every one of them, haunted by closets so full of skeletons, they’re bursting. When they discover a terrible secret behind one fateful door, it opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters hidden in every small town.

Door to Door, Night by Night will hit store shelves on November 16th 2022. The entire series will be published with a line of B cover variants by master horror artist, Brian Hurtt.

Rise Against Goes from Music to Comics with Nowhere Generation

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Rise Against follows up on their appearance on the comic book soundtrack to DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Death Metal with a graphic novel of their own: Nowhere Generation, to be released by Z2 Comics this October! The band teams with Shaun Simon and artists Sally Cantirino, Val Halvorson, Huseyin Ozkan, Soo Lee, and more to be announced, inspired by the band’s brand new album of the same name.

The world is a powder keg – a system that favors power, wealth, and status – and we’re well past the tipping point. Nowhere Generation: Presented by Rise Against  is more than just a tale of rebellion fueled by the band’s passionate politics and artistic inspiration. This is a glimpse into the lives of the abandoned, a collection of down and out individuals coming together for a revolution; these are the stories of the ones who fight back.

Rise Against will bring the lyrical themes of their ninth studio album to comics this fall in Nowhere Generation: Presented by Rise Against, the official companion to their brand new album, available to preorder now in both a standard softcover and hardcover formats, as well as slipcase, deluxe and super deluxe editions featuring exclusive prints and and brand new vinyl colorway of the LP!

Vault Announces Human Remains by Peter Milligan, Sally Cantirino, and Dearbhla Kelly

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Vault Comics has announced Human Remains, a chilling new horror series from writer Peter Milligan, artist Sally Cantirino, colorist Dearbhla Kelly, and designer Tim Daniel.

Dax and Bisa love each other. But in this new and terrifying world, love is dangerous. Feeling anything is dangerous. Earth has a new and terrible invader—monsters that deprive us of the very feelings that make us human. A shocking tale of pent-up emotions, perilously loud sex, and forced compsure in the face of unspeakable horror…

Human Remains #1 will hit store shelves in September 2021. The entire series will feature a line of variant covers from Vault Cover-Artist-in-Residence, Joshua Hixson.

The Final Girls, a darkly comedic superhero drama, arrives from comiXology Originals on March 30

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The Final Girls #1

The world’s most popular superheroes have come and gone. The year is 2030 and most of the glamorous American superheroes of the last era have been wiped out, leaving only a handful to deal with the world’s crises. Welcome to The Final Girls.

The Final Girls is written by Cara Ellison, making her creator-owned comic book writing debut, with art by Sally Cantirino, colors by Gab Contreras, and lettering by Joamette Gil. The five-issue series is available beginning March 30, 2021, from comiXology Originals. The series is edited by Katie West and features covers by Cantirino and a selection of star-studded guest cover artists, including Annie Wu, Audrey Mok, Tula Lotay, and Olivia Stephens.

Partdark comedic superhero drama, part dystopian political thriller, The Final Girls is set six years after the hero collective the Scottish tabloids named “The Final Girls” —Kogarashi, Bavanshee, Selkie, and Ash—left civil service and disappeared into the less fraught alleyways of Scotland. When Scathach, the world’s most powerful working hero, asks her retired peers for help, they secretly agree to deal out punishment on another hero in the public eye. When the weapon of publicity is wielded, it threatens to kick up all of their personal traumas, past and present. What does justice look like when violence isn’t enough?

Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive content, The Final Girls will be available upon release, at no additional cost, for members of Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited, and for purchase on Kindle and comiXology. Prime Reading offers all Amazon Prime members a rotating selection of thousands of top Kindle books, magazines, short works, comic books, children’s books, and more. Kindle Unlimited offers over 1 million titles, thousands of audiobooks, and select current issues of popular magazines for just $9.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. ComiXology Unlimited offers over 25,000 comics, graphic novels and manga for just $5.99 a month with a 30-day free trial.

I Walk With Monsters #1 Sells Out, Rushed Back to Print with New Vault Vintage Homage Cover

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Vault has announced that I Walk With Monsters #1 is sold out at the distributor and is going back to press for a second printing. The new printing will feature a brand new Vault Vintage cover by Sally Cantirino and Tim Daniel that pays homage to Byrne and Austin’s legendary cover to Uncanny X-Men #139 (1980).

 I Walk With Monsters is written by Paul Cornell, drawn by artist Sally Cantirino, with colors by Dearbhla Kelly, letters by Andworld, and design by Tim Daniel. 

The  I Walk With Monsters #1 second printing will hits store shelves on the same day as issue #3.

I Walk With Monsters #1 second printing

Review: I Walk With Monsters #1

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I Walk With Monsters #1

There’s a lot of intriguing things in I Walk With Monsters #1 but overall it’s a frustrating debut with a lot of potential. Jacey had an abusive past. A mysterious individual took her brother away as strangers visited her home and then disappeared. Years later, Jacey has David, a man who can turn into a beast. The two hunt out men who prey on the vulnerable and deliver justice. The series is an exploration of monsters, those within and those around us. There’s a lot of potential with that. But, overall the debut issue teases all of that with little as far as explanations.

I Walk With Monsters #1 feels like a dream where you can remember some of the details but not the connecting narrative. There’s a lot to it and some interesting chances to explore justice but the first issue dances around its most interesting bits. Writer Paul Cornell opens with a shocker of a sequence and from there hints at Jacey’s past while she and David make their way to their next target.

The concept of a duo luring horrible men into a trap to enact revenge is an interesting one. There’s something to be mined with the concept about doing evil to fight evil. Having a literal monster within doing so creates a wonderful metaphor. And then justaxpose that with a partner who doesn’t and you have an even deeper debate to be had.

While I Walk With Monsters #1 sets some of that up, it generally doesn’t get into that interesting aspect. It’s a set up of an issue that shocks then… just kind of is. There’s hints as far as Jacey’s past. Overall, the issue just kind of takes us from point A to point B. There’s not enough excitement to really create a hook. And that hook is mostly delivered in the teaser text for the series. The closest we get to the meat of the series is an exchange between Jacey and David while they attempt to hitchhike. The discussion dances around what they’re doing. It leaves readers to do a lot of heavy lifting to figure it all out between the present and flashbacks.

The art by Sally Cantirino is interesting. There’s something unsettling about it and that’s helped by the colors by Dearbhla Kelly. The style and how scenes are depicted doesn’t go over the top in scares or gore. There’s something rather normal in the depiction that makes it all the more off. The comic relies heavily on browns, reds, and yellows for the more negative moments while a quieter “safe” moment features blues and whites. It’s an interesting example of using color to set the mood of a scene. Cantirino does an excellent job of teasing things as well. Faces are covered and memories lightly hazy in a way that we all experience.

I Walk With Monsters #1 isn’t a bad start and has a really interesting concept. The first issue though is a very slow setup. It start fast throwing the readers into a murder but from there backs off to a point you’re wondering what the point was. It’s starting a film with an action sequence then spending an hour after standing around talking about what’s going to happen. But, as part of the puzzle to come, it probably works perfectly, that’s the some times frustrating thing about comics. But, we have to judge this on the single issue and as far as a debut, it’s a bit of a slog of a start.

Story: Paul Cornell Art: Sally Cantirino
Letterer: Andworld Design Color: Dearbhla Kelly
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.75 Overall: Recommendation: Read

Vault Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: comiXology – Kindle – Zeus Comics

Preview: I Walk With Monsters #1

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I Walk With Monsters #1

Writer: Paul Cornell
Artist: Sally Cantirino
Colorist: Dearbhla Kelly
Letterer: Andworld
Designer: Tim Daniel
On Sale: 11/25/2020

In Jacey’s past is the Important Man who took away her brother. Now Jacey has David, who sometimes transforms into a terrifying beast. Together, they’ve found a way to live to hunt, sniffing out men who prey on the vulnerable. But Jacey and David are about to run into the Important Man again. From Paul Cornell (Wolverine, Doctor Who, Elementary) and Sally Cantirino (Last Song, We Have To Go Back) comes a haunting story about the monsters that walk beside us all, and sometimes lurk within.

I Walk With Monsters #1

Vault Announces Mirka Andolfo Incentive Covers for I Walk With Monsters #1

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Vault Comics has announced two new gorgeous Mirka Andolfo incentive covers for I Walk With Monsters #1.

Mirka’s cover art will come in three different versions: a regular cover will be available as a 1:15 variant, and a deluxe foil edition printed on thick card stock will be available as a 1:30 variant. There will also be a third, one-per-store virgin variant that will be automatically sent to stores who match or exceed their orders for Giga #1. 

I Walk With Monsters #1 is a thrilling, brutal, gorgeous rural horror story unlike anything on the stands.  This comic seizes hold of you from the very first page, and never lets go. The first issue sets in motion the monstrous conflict toward which the series builds, and there’s no escaping until the grim conclusion.

In Jacey’s past is the Important Man who took away her brother. Now Jacey has David, who sometimes transforms into a terrifying beast. Together, they’ve found a way to live to hunt, sniffing out men who prey on the vulnerable. But Jacey and David are about to run into the Important Man again. From Paul Cornell (Wolverine, Doctor Who, Elementary) and Sally Cantirino (Last Song, We Have To Go Back) comes a haunting story about the monsters that walk beside us all, and sometimes lurk within.

I Walk With Monsters is written by Paul Cornell, drawn by rockstar artist Sally Cantirino, with colors by Dearbhla Kelly, letters by Andworld, and design by Tim Daniel. 

  • Cover A (Cantirino): SEP201561
  • Cover B (Gooden): SEP201562
  • Cover C (Hickman): SEP201563
  • Cover D 1:15 (Andolfo): SEP208298
  • Cover E 1:30 Foil (Andolfo): SEP208299

I Walk With Monsters #1 hits store shelves on November 25th.

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