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Get a look at what CEX is publishing in April 2023

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MISE EN PLACE (ONE-SHOT)

Written by MATT CARR
Cover A NICOLE GOUX
Illustrated & Cover B by LANE LLOYD
Retailer Price: $4.99
On Sale 4/26

After consuming every animal on Earth, humanity turns to the stars, enslaving, butchering and consuming creatures from across the galaxy. But now the food is fighting back — in spectacularly gory fashion!

Tuck in your napkin for this messy, pulpy, over-the-top tale of bloody revenge. Dinner is served!

Diamond ID JAN231417 / JAN231418
Lunar Product Codes 0123CX234 / 0123CX235

UPCs
Cover A: 793945974559 00111
Cover B: 793945974559 00121

SERENO #3 (OF 3)

Written & Illustrated by LUCIANO VECCHIO
Cover B by PAULA BOFFO SUKERMERCADO
Retailer Price: $4.99
On Sale 4/26

The final pieces of the super ritual fall into place. Rise Photophobos, god of Anti-Light!

In a villains’ world, SERENO is the prey, Rufián shows his true colors, and the hero’s Secret Origin might hold the key to salvation in an esoteric all-out Battle for Godhood!

Diamond ID JAN231420 / JAN231421 / JAN231422
Lunar Product Codes 0123CX236 / 0123CX237 / 0123CX238

UPCs
Cover A: 793945974535 00311
Cover B: 793945974535 00321
Cover C: 793945974535 00331

SEVEN YEARS IN DARKNESS YEAR ONE ASHCAN

Written & Illustrated by JOSEPH SCHMALKE
Retailer Price: $9.99
On Sale 4/26

Collect the preview edition that started it all!

The Academy of Black Magic has reopened its doors for the first time in 200 years! Seventy-two children will walk through the Academy doors for freshmen year. But only seven will graduate and walk out alive!

Joseph Schmalke’s epic tale of childhood terror starts here, and you have the opportunity to own this ultra-rare collectible edition – before the darkness takes over the world!

Lunar Product Code 0123CX239

UPC
793945974542

SEVEN YEARS IN DARKNESS YEAR ONE ASHCAN

WARLOCK 5: THE RETURN

Written by CULLEN BUNN
Illustrated by JEFFREY EDWARDS, ANDY POOLE
Retailer Price: $19.95
On Sale 4/26

Five touchstone realities exist at focal points along the Grid. From each of these realities, a Warlock is chosen to act as one of five Guardians. But somebody, or something, is killing Warlocks.

Diamond ID JAN231419
Lunar Product Codes 0123CX240

ISBN
978-1-947659-21-6

WARLOCK 5: THE RETURN

Get a look at CEX Publishing in March 2023!

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SEVEN YEARS IN DARKNESS #1 (OF 4)

Written & Illustrated by JOSEPH SCHMALKE
1:10 Incentive Cover by BILL SIENKIEWICZ
Retailer Price: $4.99
On Sale 3/29

The Academy of Black Magic has reopened its doors for the first time in 200 years! Seventy-two children will walk through the Academy doors for freshmen year. But only seven will graduate and walk out alive! Their seven-year journey starts here, in this dark and sweeping fantasy epic from acclaimed comics creator Joe Schmalke!

Featuring a 1:10 variant cover by living legend Bill Sienkiewicz!

SERENO #2 (OF 3)

Written & illustrated by LUCIANO VECCHIO
Cover B by PATRICIO OLIVER
Retailer Price: $4.99
On Sale 3/29

There’s a new guardian in town! NüMen is inspired by Sereno but uses deeply unstable technology in his quest for spiritual illumination. Meanwhile, Sereno’s chaotic shadow self is coming to life all on its own! SERENO will soon find things are not as black and white as he thought, in this epic showdown of Darkness and Light!

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THE BEAN: INTO THE DARK

Written & Illustrated by TRAVIS HANSON
On Sale 2/22

Being kidnapped by a troll was not what Bean expected from a simple errand to collect mushrooms.

Now the young dishwasher is deep underground, in a forgotten and ruined city, to collect a legendary weapon for the troll – or be killed. But when the sword sings him a new fate, he learns that his future is far bigger than a small, forgotten inn. 

The Bean

Get a look at the covers to Joseph Schmalke’s Seven Years of Darkness!

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Joseph Schmalke and CEX Publishing are launching a new series: Seven Years in Darkness. Seven Years of Darkness tells the story of the first group of students to enter a wizarding school in over a hundred years. 72 children are selected for the new class, but only seven will graduate, alive.

Joseph Schmalke is the Co-Publisher of Black Caravan and a comics creator, writer, and illustrator residing in Westbrook, Maine. Joe is the artist and writer on several comic book titles including: The Infernal Pact, Cherry Blackbird, Phantom Starkiller (with Peter Goral), We Don’t Kill Spiders, The Electric Black (with Rich Woodall), and Murder Hobo (with Jason Lynch).

Seven Years in Darkness: Year One is a four-issue miniseries released bi-monthly. Seven Years in Darkness #1 will feature three covers from Joseph Schmalke and Bill Sienkiewicz and will be included as part of Diamond and Lunar Distribution’s December catalogs and will be available in stores this March.

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