Stillman #1
Written by Curt Pires
Art by Sunando C
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Peter Stillman leads a double life. By day he is a family man. A successful family man with a loving wife and two beautiful children trying to carve out his own little slice of the American dream.
By night–his real life–as a violent hitman with deep ties to organized crime.
The series will feature art from a rotating cast of artists including Sunando C, Alex Diotto, Stefan Tosheff, and Luca Casalanguida.
Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins 2 #1
(W) Derek Fridolfs (A) Sunando C (CA) Diego Galindo
In Shops: Jun 25, 2025
SRP: $4.99
The first of four new weird tales from Hawkins, Indiana-A small town that keeps getting stranger. After shaking off a mysterious encounter with a strange “dog” while out at the Drive-In Cinema, Hawkins science teacher Scott Clarke is inspired to teach his students all about how 3D glasses work and it spirals into theories about alternate dimensions and how they might be perceived. Dustin keeps secret that the weird “dog” could be nothing other than Dart, his missing pet demodog.
In Hawkins, Indiana, nothing is as it seems. Dark Horse Comics and Netflix present new spooky tales featuring some of your favorite characters from Stranger Things in Stranger Things: Tales from Hawkins II! Each issue will be written by New York Times bestselling author Derek Fridolfs, colored by Dan Jackson, and lettered by Nate Piekos. Each issue will be illustrated by a different artist: Sunando C will illustrate issue #1, Bradley Clayton, will illustrate #2, Mack Chater will illustrate #3, and Vincenzo Riccardi will illustrate #4. Issue #1 will also feature cover art by Diego Galindo with variants by Vincenzo Riccardi, Mack Chater, and Ben Turner.
After shaking off a mysterious encounter with a strange “dog” while out at the Drive-In Cinema, Hawkins science teacher Scott Clarke is inspired to teach his students how 3D glasses work; this spirals into theories about alternate dimensions and how they might be perceived. Meanwhile, Dustin keeps secret that the weird “dog” could be nothing other than Dart, his missing pet demodog.
Future issues will also feature stories about Will Byers, Grigori, and the Demogorgon.
Stranger Things: Tales from Hawkins II #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on June 25, 2025. It is now available for preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.
Timed to New York Comic Con, Jeff DiBartolomeo, head of comiXology, unveiled a robust and diverse slate of new digitally exclusive comiCology Originals titles, teased upcoming projects, and announced a new print publisher for the program.
At an event at Amazon’s Midtown Manhattan office, DiBartolomeo underscored the company’s ongoing dedication to the comiXology Originals program as he teased 17 newly acquired projects with writers and artists Serg Acuña, Matthew Arnold, Frank Barbiere, Marc Bernardin, John Broglia, Mike Collins, Alex Cormack, Cat Farris, Valeria Favoccia, Alti Firmansyah, Veronica Fish, Adam Freeman, Davide Gianfelice, Marc Guggenheim, Kim-Joy, Neil Kleid, Szymon Kudranski, Lee Loughridge, Vic Malhotra, Marz Jr., Chris Matthews, Omar Morales, Mau Mora, Tom Morello, Stephen Rhodes, John Romita, Jr., Gonzalo Ruggieri, Mark Schey, Alex Segura, Scott Snyder, Taki Soma, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Jordan Thomas, Steven Thompson, and Harvey Tolibao.
DiBartolomeo also announced the next wave of new creator-owned comiXology Originals titles being released digitally in the coming months from all-stars Noah Bailey, Mike Carey, Whitney Cogar, Michael W. Conrad, Sunando C, Mark Dale, Allie Drake, Valeria Favoccia, Jonathan Hill, Tom Napolitano, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Curt Pires, Pablo Raimondi, MK Reed, Scott and Jack Snyder, and José Villarrubia.
In his remarks, DiBartolomeo underscored Amazon’s commitment to comics as he highlighted Comixology’s expanding print distribution. First, his presentation highlighted the upcoming print releases through comiXology’s new print distribution relationship with the publisher Ablaze, which was announced in May 2024. Beginning this month Ablaze is bringing the stunning 2024 Eisner award-nominated gothic love story Parliament of Rooks, by Abigail Jill Harding and Richard Starkings, to print in single issues. In November, in time for the holiday season, Ablaze will publish the Eisner award-winning graphic novel Harvey Kurtzman’s Marley’s Ghost, by co-writer Josh O’Neill and artist Gideon Kendall, who were on hand to presenttheir take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, followed by the publication of Miles Gunter and Briane Andan’s Grammaton Punch in 2025. And he shared that just this week Comixology extended their deal to bring 6 more titles to print with Ablaze including Cold Hard Cash: A Martha Chainey Escapade, Hard Style Juice!, Retroverse, Roderick and the City of Morhil, Sliced, and The Lycan. The release schedule will be announced at a later date.
DiBartolomeo then announced that Comixology has inked a new deal with independent publisher Mad Cave Studios to bring 10 Comixology Originals titles to bookstores, libraries, and comic shops. This exciting slate of releases includes Beneath, Boxed, Breaklands V2 and V3, Ghostbox, The Ghost of Wreckers Cove, Groupies, Midstate, Nostalgia, and Wag. The release schedule will be announced at a later date.
The next wave of Comixology Originals digital releases announced today include:
Ghostbox—Ghostbox #1 (of 5) debuts October 29, 2024
Ghostbox is a fantasy/horror story by acclaimed writer Mike Carey (Lucifer, The Girl With All The Gifts) and artist/letterer Pablo Raimondi (Sacred Creatures, Books of Doom), with colors by José Villarrubia launching just in time for Halloween! When sisters Chloe and Jan Peace unexpectedly inherit a mysterious carved wooden box, they discover that it’s inhabited by ghosts – and sought after by a race of shape-shifting monsters.
Stillman—Stillman #1 (of 5) debuts December 10, 2024
Writer Curt Pires (Endless, Money) and a rotating list of artists including Sunando C along with colorist Mark Dale and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou tackle a new crime thriller. Peter Stillman leads a double life. By day he is a successful family man with a loving wife and two beautiful children trying to carve out his own little slice of the American dream. By night–his real life–as a violent hitman with deep ties to organized crime.
Budding Crisis–Budding Crisis #1 (of 5) debuts January 21, 2025.
Written by MK Reed (Americus, Science Comics: Dinosaurs, Delver) with art and letters by Jonathan Hill (Americus, Lizard Boy 2) and colors by Allie Drake, Budding Crisis is a new fantasy series about the disappearance of the world’s most precious magical resource, a plant whose seed has the power to grant wishes. With the Onomanthe plant extinct in the wild and the last cultivated strain dying out, what will the population do?
By A Thread Book 2—By A Thread #5 (of 4) debuts Spring 2025
Reuniting the father-and-son team of Scott & Jack Snyder with artists Valeria Favoccia and Whitney Cogar and letterer Tom Napolitano, the world of By A Thread expands with an all-new story arc! Charlie and our young heroes have defied the odds by traversing the deadly Shroud in search of a safe haven. With foes more powerful than ever before on their trail, will they even make it onto land?
The 99 Legs–The 99 Legs (ogn) debuts Spring 2025
Writer Michael W. Conrad (Neptune, Nightwing) and acclaimed artist Noah Bailey (Diabolical, Station Grand) reunite for the horror suspense original graphic novel The 99 Legs. The 99 Legs follows a down on his luck crime writer who discovers a string of murders in his area that seem to align with his newest unpublished manuscript. Terrified by this turn of events, the writer contacts his agent to halt the manuscript’s delivery to publishers, fearing that it will implicate him in the crimes. What follows is a blood spattered, spiraling nightmare, as the mystery of the killer’s identity unfolds.
The Comixology event hosted numerous creators including Jamal Igle, Tula Lotay, Lee Loughridge, Clay McCormack, Helen Mullane, Ricardo López Ortiz, Curt Pires, Alex Segura, Scott Snyder, and Chip Zdarsky showcasing their recent Comixology Originals titles. There were also special guest appearances by Kim-Joy and Marc Guggenheim and video messages from actor Thomas Jane and acclaimed writer Mike Carey talking about the upcoming release of The Lycan, which was announced earlier this year at SDCC, producer Steven DeKnight who talked about his debut original graphic novel Beneath, drawn by artist Michael Gaydos who was on hand at the event, and Ariela Kristantina spotlighted her upcoming graphic novel The Girl Who Draws on Whales.
Award-winning writer Jody Houser returns to pen an anthology of vibrant new stories woven into the larger tapestry of the hit Netflix series Stranger Things in Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins! Joining Houser on her trip through Hawkins are artist Caio Filipe, Sunando C, Giorgia Gio Esposito colorist Dan Jackson, and letterer Nate Piekos.
On the surface, Hawkins, Indiana seems like the kind of town where nothing too out of the ordinary ever happens, but in the fall of ’83 it is anything but safe. In Issue #1 of Tales from Hawkins, two friends head out into the woods with their rifles and a six-pack. These would-be hunters find themselves the prey of a nightmarish beast who has claimed the wilderness around town and everything inside it, including them.
Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins #1 (of four) will be in comic shops February 8, 2023. Artists Kyle Lambert, Diego Galindo, and Danny Luckert each contributed a variant cover for issue #1. All four variants are available for pre-order at your local comic shop.
A man called Walter Willem seemingly dies, hit by a train. In an instant, he finds himself in the middle of a war straight out of Tolkien’s mind fought by warriors and soldiers from different eras. It’s an anachronistic bash against dark creatures that are after a fearless and beautiful warrior who seems to be the best of the bunch from the side of good. All is explained by a flying guide that leaves out a lot of key information for someone who just made it into the battlefield.
And that’s it. This is as much as you know, in broad strokes, about Vault’s new comic End After End in its opening issue. It’s one of the many strengths of this first chapter of the story and it’s smartly put together within a sea of questions that’ll surely but slowly reveal their answers in subsequent entries.
Written by Tim Daniel and David Andry with art by Sunando C and colors by Kurt Michael Russell, End After End finds a powerful narrative force in the concept of vagueness, in doing away with exposition so the reader can feel the same kind of confusion and displacement the main character does. The story, as summed up above, presents itself as an adventure playing out in real time without the customary time jumps we’ve come to expect to get from point A to point B. If anything, it stays in point A and makes the reader live in the story’s moment.
It’s a curious thing, time and pacing in comics. Volumes of information can be contained within a single panel, with or without words, but the presence of expository text can keep one from taking in all the things in them. Intentionally playing into vagueness, then, can put a requirement upon the reader to dig even further into each element present in the comics page to find any sort of clue as to the many questions the narrative puts in place. This is the genius of End After End. Daniel, Andry, and Sunando C manage to keep complete control of the pacing of the story by promoting a full reading of each page to hunt for any possible of hint as to what the hell the war at the center of it all is about.
In the absence of information, Daniel, Andry, and Sunando C offer characters with an abundance of personality that anchor the story’s perspective. There’s a palpable sense of discovery that main character Walter embodies that helps to heighten the setting’s sense of scale, doing an impressively quick job of placing us in a grand fantasy war scenario that’s yet to be fully revealed. A lot of this is owed to Walter’s guide, Grink.
An unreliable old man with fairy wings that thrusts a sword and shield into the new foot soldier’s hands, Grink helps to set the tone and sprawling nature of the event early on by being constructed as a pragmatic and urgent voice that offers a lightning fast introduction to the conflict at hand. Sunando C’s design for Grink has a sense of Dungeons & Dragons to it that makes the character come off as familiar and reliable. It’s a great example of how much weight characters are given so they can push the story into different places without being heavy handed.
The same applies for the protagonist and the other soldiers fighting in the background. Everything that’s present in a panel feels necessary to it, purposeful. It invites repeat readings in the hopes certain details missed on the first read become more visible the second or third time around. I would suggest to pay special attention to the soldiers fighting the war and the time periods they represent. It might be crucial to unlocking a few secrets as new issues come along.
Kurt Michael Russell’s colors are surprisingly restrained in parts and explosive in others, creating an environment that is fantastically nightmarish. Big set piece sequences benefit from this as they capture the realness of war despite the fantasy setting. There’s a very real sense of danger here and it makes you fear for Walter and his guide’s safety. Essentially, the colors do more than their part to help tell the story and add even more storytelling dimensions.
In a way, End After End #1 feels like the introductory level of a big budget AAA video game. It drops you right in the middle of the action so you can figure everything out as you go along. The creative team are all on the same page for this, producing a finely tuned narrative that begs to be expanded upon. All of this to say that, for a first issue, End After End #1 is a masterclass in how to start a new series.
Script: Tim Daniel and David Andry Art: Sunando C Colors: Kurt Michael Russell
Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10
Recommendation: Buy and read several times. Then sit back and think about it.
Vault Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE review copy
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Memoria
Written by Curt Pires
Pencils Sunando C
Colored by Mark Dale
Lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Purchase: comiXology – Kindle
When an aged terminally ill detective and a young burnout are partnered up and saddled with an unsolvable case, they begin to unravel a sprawling conspiracy that points to one thing: The most prolific serial killer in American history. As they further investigate the case they make discoveries that will force them to question everything and everyone they know.
TRUE DETECTIVE meets LETHAL WEAPON with the prestige dramatic storytelling of a David Fincher film.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via comiXology and Kindle.
Memoria
Written by Curt Pires
Pencils Sunando C
Colored by Mark Dale
Lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Purchase: comiXology – Kindle
When an aged terminally ill detective and a young burnout are partnered up and saddled with an unsolvable case, they begin to unravel a sprawling conspiracy that points to one thing: The most prolific serial killer in American history. As they further investigate the case they make discoveries that will force them to question everything and everyone they know.
TRUE DETECTIVE meets LETHAL WEAPON with the prestige dramatic storytelling of a David Fincher film.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content only available on comiXology and Kindle. Read for free as part of your subscription to comiXology Unlimited, Kindle Unlimited or Amazon Prime. Also available for purchase via comiXology and Kindle.
Writer Curt Pires and comiXology have announced two new series Lost Falls and Memoria. This announcement is timed to the highly anticipated print publication of Youth Volume 1 from Dark Horse Books which coincides with the debut of Youth Season Two, the sequel to the acclaimed teen superhero drama that is exclusively available as part of the comiXology Originals line of digital content.
Both Lost Falls, a social minded mystery box thriller with art by Antonio Fuso, Pierluigi Minotti, and Lee Loughridge and Memoria, a crime thriller with art by Sunando C and Mark Dale, will be written by Curt Pires and available exclusively from comiXology Originals will be available for purchase via comiXology and Kindle and included in Prime Reading, Kindle Unlimited and comiXology Unlimited upon release. More details and release dates will be announced in the coming months.
Written by Curt Pires and with art by Alex Diotto, co-creators of the acclaimed comic Olympia, with colors by Dee Cunniffe and letters by Micah Myers, Youth is an epic superhuman saga unlike any other. Youth is currently in development as an original series with Amazon Studios with executive producer Patrick Moran.
Youth Volume 1, the print edition, collecting issues 1-4 of the digital series, arrives in paperback for the first time from Dark Horse Books in bookstores on April 6, 2021 and in comic shops on April 7, 2021. In YOUTH Volume 1 Franklin and River struggle to navigate family, friends, high school, work, drugs, and all the pressures of growing up. As a queer couple, they yearn to escape their lives in a small, bigoted Midwest town. They steal River’s stepfather’s Mustang and hit the road. Their destination? California. But along the way, the car breaks down. They meet some kids who are travelling the country, partying, and attempting to find themselves. They party some more. . . And soon everything changes.
Also on April 6, 2021, the story continues digitally with Youth Season Two issue #1. In Youth Season Two, six months have passed since the events of the first story. Some of the kids are missing. Some of the kids are dead. Some of the kids are trying to do better. One thing is for certain: they’re not the only ones with powers anymore. A bold expansion to the smash hit first story, Youth Season Two will continue with the core cast as well as introduce new characters from all across the globe.
Part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content, Youth Season Two will be released monthly. Each of the 4-issues will be available upon release, at no additional cost, for members of Amazon Prime, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited, and for purchase on the Amazon Kindle Store and comiXology. Prime Reading offers all Amazon Prime members a rotating selection of over a thousand top Kindle books, magazines, short works, comic books, children’s books, and more – all at no additional cost. Kindle Unlimited gives customers access to more than 1 million titles, including thousands of audio books, and current magazines for just $9.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. ComiXology Unlimited offers over 30,000 comics, graphic novels and manga for just $5.99 a month with a 30-day free trial.
Aleš Kot, Tradd Moore, and Heather Moore come together for The New World—a ballistic, science-fiction, action,
The New World #1 begins with a massive-sized, 72-page debut issue, and features a backup comic introducing the talents of Aaron Stewart-Ahn and Sunando C.
Set in The United States of America—after the Second Civil War—The New World follows two lovers. One: a straight-edge vegan hacker anarchist boy with a penchant for messing with the State. The other: a chaotic, hedonistic cop with a reality TV show and a license to kill. This really shouldn’t happen—and yet, somehow, it does. Soon, the entire state of New California is after them—so they have to run.
The New World #1 hits stores on Wednesday, July 25th. The final order cutoff for retailers is Monday, July 2nd.
