This August, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are rotating back into combat for a powerful dose of two-fisted fury with staggering new tales of war and fighting men in EC Comics’ next giant-sized, 56-page special: Presenting … Shellshock #1! You’ve warmed yourselves by the pyres of SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES . . . You’ve grabbed OUTLAW SHOWDOWN by both red-hot barrels . . . And you’ve felt the poison touch of TORTURED HEARTS. But nothing can prepare you for what awaits—or who you will become—when you finally reach the front line. Here, there can be no peace—only SHELLSHOCK, on sale August 19th!!
Meet mankind’s greatest enemy of all—himself—as commanding writers Julio Anta, John Arcudi, Benito Cereno, and Michael W. Conrad lead a joint campaign alongside artistic bombardiers Tom Fowler, David Lapham, Albert Monteys, and Shawn Martinbrough that will always bring enemy and ally, private and general, to the same reward in the end: a flag-draped casket and glory posthumously conferred.
Plus: This 56-page testament to fortitude also features another all-time EC classic, painstakingly remastered and restored!
We’ve got incoming, so kiss your rifle and swallow your fear when Shellshock #1 lays siege to comic shops on August 19th – featuring shrapnel-laden covers by modern masters Lee Bermejo, Tyler Crook, Tom Fowler, Jay Stephens, and Rian Hughes!
Dark Horse Comics presents Witness Point, a new four-issue comic series written by actor Nathan Fillion and screenwriter/comic author Heath Corson and illustrated by award-winning illustrator Soo Lee. Witness Point #1 will feature cover art by Lee and Shawn Martinbrough with Chris Sotomayor and will arrive in comic shops in July 2026.
Welcome to Baraboo, Wisconsin, a friendly town full of cold beers and warm hearts—heck, it’s even the headquarters of the Ding-A-Ling Circus—a place where everyone gets along . . .
At least, they did, until the naked, dismembered body of a US Marshal was found in the town square, revealing Baraboo’s dark secret: It’s the dumping ground for the Witness Protection Program. Turns out, for the past forty years, every criminal, con man, and killer who flipped on their pals has been relocated to “Witness Point.”
Now, the long-suffering local sheriff, Carter “Kite” Calhoon, and a contentious deputy marshal, Priya Khabrani, are forced together to solve the murder only days before the town’s beloved Harvest Festival. Which won’t be easy in the face of rising paranoia and tempers as everyone in Baraboo wonders just what kind of lowlife they’re living next to . . .
Witness Point #1(of 4) arrives in comic shops on July 8, 2026. It is now available for preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.
Ignition Press has announced they will be exhibiting at New York Comic Con for the first time ever, hosting an array of creators and selling limited edition comics at Booth HB902 in the heart of the convention’s legendary Artist Alley.
Throughout the weekend, Ignition Press will have a variety of amazing creators signing, including Jeremy Haun (The Beauty, Murder Podcast), Jason A. Hurley (The Beauty), David Baldeón (Voyeur), Inaki Miranda & Roy Miranda (Arcadia), Stephanie Williams (Roots of Madness), Cullen Bunn (Deluge), Tim Seeley (NO Place), and Declan Shalvey (Deluge). Ignition Press’ creator-driven approach will be showcased at their booth in Artist Alley and the publisher encourages fans to stop by and celebrate any of the creators’ various works in the comics industry.
Fans can purchase the Ignition Exclusive variant covers for Murder Podcast #1 by Shawn Martinbrough, Voyeur #1 by Tula Lotay, Roots of Madness #1 by Karen Darboe, and Deluge #1 by Declan Shalvey; the Cold Open introductory issue for NO Place and Deluge; and the Local Comic Shop Day edition of The Beauty: Book One. Fans will also have the opportunity to add limited edition Ignition Press merchandise onto their orders at the show or preorder a copy of Arcadia: The Cold Open and have them shipped to their home address afterwards.
Fans who make a purchase at the booth will receive a coin token for the Ignition Press gachapon machine, which includes prizes ranging from premium vinyl stickers, enamel pins, and even Golden Tickets redeemable for original sketches from Ignition Press artists. Fans can also secure a coin token for free by scanning the QR code displayed on the Javits Center TV Network twice every hour throughout the convention! Coin tokens are available while supplies last.
Ignition Press is a participant in Retailer Day and will give a presentation to comic shop retailers on Wednesday, October 8th. This presentation will include information about current series and breaking news about upcoming series and creators coming on board.
Ignition Press has announced the expansion of their webstore with exclusive direct-to-consumer products. The webstore gives fans the opportunity to secure exclusive products including limited edition variant covers of their favorite series, the Cold Opens, and a variety of merchandise that had previously only been available at special events, Kickstarter campaigns, and conventions.
The publisher will offer limited edition exclusive variant covers of each of their first issues, beginning with the Murder Podcast #1 Ignition Exclusive featuring cover art from Shawn Martinbrough and the Voyeur #1 Ignition Exclusive showcasing cover art from Tula Lotay. The Murder Podcast #1 Ignition Exclusive is limited to 300 units while the Voyeur #1 Ignition Exclusive is limited to 500 units.
As with all Ignition Press releases, the Ignition Exclusives will feature a unique serial number printed on the back cover tied to the print run of that cover. Fans should note that in order to ensure quality in the printing process and provide copies to the people working on the title, they may receive a numbered copy that exceeds the announced quantity, but that only the announced quantity will be released into circulation. And while readers can also pick up the standard covers and 1:5 variants on the webstore, Ignition Press encourages everyone to support their local comic shop.
Curious about a new series from Ignition Press? Readers can get a copy of a Cold Open for a series, which introduces the premise in an all-new, self-contained story along with behind-the- scenes material and information on how to dive further into the series. Also available are the First Looks, which are special preview books containing black-and-white teasers from three Ignition Press titles, as well as introductions by the authors.
Limited edition merchandise is also available for many series on the site, including a Murder Podcast t-shirt, Roots of Madness hair gloss (for natural AND synthetic hair), a NO Place art print, a Voyeur tote bag, Arcadia and Beauty enamel pins, Deluge face mask, and much more. Previously, this merchandise had only been available at the Ignition Press Room—a boutique pop-up experience at San Diego Comic-Con this year.
At its inaugural panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego (SDCC), Ignition Press announced the addition of 16 creators to its talent lineup. The list of bestselling writers, artists, and cartoonists includes Eisner, Harvey, Glyph Comics, National Cartoonists Society Reuben, and GLAAD Media Award-winners and nominees.
During the “Doing Comics Differently with Ignition Press” panel at SDCC, Ignition Press revealed that Aneke, Aaron Campbell, Mack Chater, Rob Guillory, Phil Hester, Dennis Hopeless, Tini Howard, Sam Lotfi, Shawn Martinbrough, B. Clay Moore, Ande Parks, Khary Randolph, Brahm Revel, Will Rosado, Joanne Starer, and Dave Wachter all have projects in development.
Ignition Press has previously announced creators including co-founder and Creative Director Jeremy Haun, Cullen Bunn, Si Spurrier, Leah Williams, Stephanie Williams, Jim McCann, Tim Seeley, the Miranda Brothers, Stefano Simeone, Mike Tisserand, Marika Cresta, David Baldeón, Letizia Cadonici, and Joe Eisma in their lineup. On the eve of SDCC, the publisher announced multiple Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Peter Murrieta was developing a project as well. Murrieta, who was a surprise guest on the “Doing Comics Differently with Ignition Press” panel, revealed the project would be “Chicano futurism” and did a live reading of prose inspired by the project. The announced creators’ projects, which will release in 2026, include a diverse range of genres and themes and include both first time creative collaborations and the reuniting of fan favorite creative teams. Reuniting teams include Seeley and Campbell, Moore and Chater, Guillory and Lotfi, along with Starer and Randolph. The publisher also indicated that a number of creators have multiple projects in development currently. Project titles and other details will be revealed at a later date.
Baltimore Comic-Con returns October 17-19, 2025 at the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center. The Baltimore Comic-Con has announced comics guests John Beatty, Jim Cheung, Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, Shawn Martinbrough, Adriana Melo, and Craig Rousseau appearing at this year’s event!. Get your tickets which are available now.
John Beatty got his first break working for Marvel and DC Comics when he was 19. The year was 1980 and the decade that followed is now referred to as the “Bronze Age” of comic books! Beginning with short filler stories for DC Comics anthology books, Beatty soon found himself as the finisher on the JLA working over George Perez. However, the run was limited to 4 issues due to Marvel Comics offering him the inking duty over his favorite character, Captain America, with his long-time mentor and collaborator, Mike Zeck. Coming off of a 2.5 year run on Cap, Zeck and Beatty were tagged to do the art on the first major clash of heroes and villains, Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars! which saw the change of Spider-Man’s costume to black in issue #8 of the series, something that turned into a bigger deal as Venom. After Secret Wars, the team of Zeck and Beatty produced the hit limited mini-series and a graphic novel starring Marvel’s newest “A-List” character, The Punisher. The last major work the team produced was the Captain America Annual 8. Covers for Captain America, G.I. Joe, and many other titles were a staple of work for the team during the ’80s. Beatty continued projects for Marvel, including Thanos Quest, Squadron Supreme, Venom: The Madness, and others. At DC Comics, John was the inker for Batman: Year 3 and the first 5 issues on the new Batman title, Legends of the Dark Knight. Eight years of work on various Batman titles with writer Doug Moench and penciler Kelley Jones became well-known in the ’90s, including the last 2 installments on the Vampire/Batman GN series, other Batman graphic novels, and a 3-year run on the monthly Batman title, recently reprinted in two beautiful hardcover editions. Eventually turning his sights on DC Licensing, Beatty has produced vector ink and color for style guides, from movies to animated series to products such as toys, cards, packaging, and clothing, among other things. This is uncredited work, but is still being used. Traditional inking is still Beatty’s main love, and he continues to practice it and teach those around him who want to learn.
Jim Cheung originally hails from the sunny land of Great Britain, and landed his first professional penciling job at Marvel UK in the mid 90s. From there, he went on to establish himself on titles such as Iron Man and X-Force for Marvel US, and in 2000, he moved to the US to co-create and launch Scion for Crossgen Comics. After Scion, he worked exclusively for Marvel Comics for over 15 years, creating titles such as Infinity, which spawned the Avengers: Infinity War movie, and the award-winning Young Avengers!
Jim has recently worked on various covers for Marvel and DC.
Past credits include Justice League for DC Comics, and numerous titles for Marvel Comics, including Spider-Man: The Clone Conspiracy, Avengers vs. X-Men, New Avengers, Illuminati, and Original Sin. Further credits include work for The New York Times, ESPN, Mattel, Blizzard Entertainment, The Royal Mail, Amazon, Skybound Entertainment, Todd McFarlane Productions, IDW, The Village Voice, Dorling Kindersley (DK Books), The Daily Mirror, Dynamite Comics, The Folio Society, and Upper Deck.
Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez was born in Spain and began drawing comics professionally in Argentina at age 13. In the 1960s, he drew romance titles for Charlton Comics. Garcia-Lopez came to the U.S. in 1974 and started working for DC Comics, drawing series such as Superman, Batman, Hawkman, Tarzan, and Jonah Hex. His other notable work includes Atari Force, Deadman, New Teen Titans, and On The Road to Perdition. Since 1982, Garcia-Lopez has designed and pencilled the definitive versions of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and many other characters for various DC Comics style guides, which are created for licensees only. His style guide art has been seen on countless DC Comics licensed products and is still being used today.
Shawn Martinbrough is the author of How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling by Penguin Random House and an Eisner Award-nominated artist whose comic book projects include Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther: Man Without Fear, and Hellboy. Shawn illustrated Thief of Thieves, the graphic novel series co-created with Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) and the Eisner-nominated Prométhée 13:13, published by Éditions Delcourt-Soleil and ABLAZE.
He is a co-author of Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court by Simon & Schuster and the artist of Like Lava in My Veins, the 2024 NAACP Image Award-nominated, best-selling kid’s book written by Derrick D. Barnes and published by Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Kids. Shawn is a Vanity Fair contributor, the writer of Red Hood: The Hill for DC Comics, and is currently writing and illustrating The HEAVY, an original graphic novel for Megascope/Abrams Books.
Adriana Melo has worked for Marvel, DC, Image Comics, and Titan Comics. Some of the books she has worked as a penciler/artist are: Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Silver Surfer, Amazing Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot, Star Wars: Empire, Rose & Thorn, Witchblade, Miss Marvel, Birds of Prey, Catwoman, Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy, Female Furies, Plastic Man, Dr. Who: New Adventures of the Ninth Doctor, Harley and Ivy Meet Betty and Veronica, Marvel Voices, and Trial of the Amazons. You can find her most recent work in the DC Comics series Wonder Girl with Joelle Jones, and in Superman: Action Comics.
Craig Rousseau has been working in the comics industry for over 2 decades, working for all the major publishers, including DC (Impulse, Batman Beyond, Harley Quinn, Batman ‘66) and Marvel (Iron Man Armor Wars, Captain America and the Korvac Saga, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane). Besides Young Hellboy from Dark Horse Comics, he’s currently working on the latest adventures of his creator-owned book, The Perhapanauts (with Todd Dezago)… and a few other things.
2025 GUESTS
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Kaare Andrews (Spider-Man: REIGN 2), John Beatty (Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars), Russ Braun (The Boys), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jim Cheung (Young Avengers), Chris Claremont (X-Men), Becky Cloonan (Somna), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Michael W. Conrad (Manowar: Invictus), Jeff Dekal (Something is Killing the Children), David Finch (Moon Knight), Trish Forstner (Feral), Barbara Friedlander (Swing with Scooter), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Mike Grell (Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters), Tula Lotay (Barnstormers), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons), Shawn Martinbrough (Red Hood: The Hill), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Mike McKone (Red Goblin), Adriana Melo (Action Comics), Josh Middleton (Aquaman), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Mark Morales (Thor), Trevor Mueller (Albert the Alien), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Dan Parent (Sabrina the Teenage Witch), Amy Reeder (Power Girl), Esad Ribic (Conan the Barbarian), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Craig Rousseau (Herculoids), Jim Rugg (Street Angel), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Joe Staton (Dick Tracy), Mark Waid (Justice League Unlimited), Maria Wolf (Phoenix), Rich Woodall (Electric Black).
Marc Bernardin, the writer of Anansi Boysannounced on social media that the rest of the series nor a trade will be released by Dark Horse. The announcement comes after Vulture‘s explosive report into allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse by Neil Gaiman.
Anansi Boys was created by Gaiman with writing by Bernardin with art by Shawn Martinbrough, color by Chris Sotomayor, lettering by Jim Campbell, covers by David Mack.
Last week, Anansi Boys 7 hit stands. It will be the last issue. Dark Horse will not release a trade.
I am incredibly proud of the work we did on the book. @smartinbrough.bsky.social’s lines were fantastic, @sotocolor.bsky.social’s hues were extraordinary, @david-mack.bsky.social slayed the covers.
But all of that pales.
Anansi Boys is about two brothers, twins. One is meek, timid, like a flopsy, set-upon puppy. The other brother is narcissistic, hedonistic, governed by nothing other than his own pursuit of sensation and pleasure. They seem so different, but they are very much flip sides of the same coin. Literally.
I never gave too much thought about that. Until now.
My heart breaks for the survivors and any pain seeing these books on the shelves might have caused.
In our coverage of the allegations, it was noted that there had seem to be a quiet distancing by publishers from Gaiman since accusations began last year. Anansi Boys had just a few more issues to go along with the collection. Over at DC Comics, the publisher seems to have been distancing itself for some time with no new projects announced for the Sandman Universe and the recent John Constantine: Dead in America having connection to that stripped from its trade dressing for its collection.
Dark Horse takes seriously the allegations against Neil Gaiman and we are no longer publishing his works. Confirming that the Anansi Boys comic series and collected volume have been cancelled.
(W) Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin (A) Shawn Martinbrough (CA) David Mack In Shops: Jan 15, 2025 SRP: $3.99
It’s brother vs. brother as Fat Charlie confronts Spider about kissing Rosie-and demands that his mysterious god-like sibling get out of his house and his life. Spider responds by moving in: to Fat Charlie’s spare room and on to sleeping with Fat Charlie’s fiancée. Oh, and Grahame Coates has the police looking into Fat Charlie.
(W) Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin (A) Shawn Martinbrough (CA) David Mack In Shops: Nov 27, 2024 SRP: $3.99
Fat Charlie is forced to deal with the fallout of Spider’s day pretending to be him – the chaos he caused at Fat Charlie’s job at the Grahame Coats Agency as well as the kiss-filled complications with Spider and Rosie. Daisy (the woman Fat Charlie woke up with after the evening of wine, women, and song) is more than meets the eye. Plus: A classic tale of young Anansi brewing his particular brand of mischief.
(W) Neil Gaiman, Marc Bernardin (A) Shawn Martinbrough (CA) David Mack In Shops: Nov 06, 2024 SRP: $3.99
As Fat Charlie nurses an epic hangover, and deals with the mystery woman who shared his bed after the night of mournful reverie, Spider heads to the Grahame Coats Agency to fill in for his brother. There, Spider gets into the kind of trouble only a trickster scion could muster – trouble that poor Fat Charlie will have to deal with.
