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Preview: Creatures and Corridors

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Creatures and Corridors

Story: Brandon Auman
Art: Andrea Mutti
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher
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It’s the summer of 1992, and five high school students have come together to play Creatures & Corridors, a rare role-playing game that was banned years earlier for being “too Satanic”. As the kids delve into this forbidden fantasy game, they unwittingly unleash a curse that warps all reality around them. Upstairs, orcs storm the living room and kill their parents; while their front yard turns into a moat filled with tentacled horrors; and their basement “game cave” transforms into a literal dungeon, complete with bloodthirsty monsters and terrifying death traps. Now, the kids are forced to play Creatures & Corridors for their very lives, as a devilish Gamemaster judges their every move.

Creatures and Corridors

Creatures & Corridors is a familiar story but really solid overall with great presentation

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It’s the summer of 1992, and five high school sophomores play a rare role-playing game that was banned for being “too Satanic” — Creatures & Corridors. As the kids play the mysterious fantasy game, it unleashes a curse that warps reality around them: orcs storm the living room, killing their parents. The front yard turns into a moat filled with tentacled horrors. And their basement “game cave” transforms into a literal dungeon, laden with bloodthirsty monsters and terrifying death traps. Now, the kids are forced to play Creatures & Corridors for their very lives, as a devilish Gamemaster judges their every move.

Story: Brandon Auman
Art: Andrea Mutti
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Amazon

The Lab provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Hunger has some fantastic art but a rather disappointing story

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In 1896 Bombay, under British rule, a concentration camp holds IZNA, a plague-infected and famine-stricken being. Mutated through medical experiments, she, along with others, becomes a mutant. British officers invite famine photographer William Wallace Hooper to document the mutants, unaware he’s controlled by a shape-shifting vampire called Pisach. The Pisach infects prey with insatiable hunger, while Hooper bonds with Izna amidst rulers’ games with famine slaves.

Unbeknownst, Izna descends from women embracing monsters. Discovering Hooper’s role in her mother’s death, she wishes to become a monster herself. Transformed into a half-human, half-mutant, half-beast, she embraces her hunger, consuming oppressors and drenching her land in blood. This infinite hunger mirrors trauma’s generational and cultural impact, forging an inseparable link between oppressed and oppressor. The graphic novel blends True Blood, Kill Bill, and Spiral Into Horror, delving into hunger’s exploration of trauma’s pervasive influence.

Story: Nihaarika Negi
Art: Joe Bocardo
Color: Jose Villarrubia
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Bookshop
Amazon

The Lab provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
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Super Science Vol. 1 is wacky, weird, and a hell of a lot of fun

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Super Science is a sci-fi/comedy about a world where the limits of human imagination have become real. For five days the entire sky over twelve spots across the globe turn amethyst purple. The inexplicable result was in each location, professional engineers and scientists, as well as tinkers, amateur inventors, and high school science teachers were able to create scientific and engineering breakthroughs in ways far surpassing the world’s top scientific institutions. Our story starts three years later in Los Angeles, where a breed of actual superheroes and super villains are emerging.

Dealing with this new phenomenon is LAPD’s new “Mad Scientist Division.” Our two main characters are the no-nonsense Sergeant Esmerelda Villanueva and her idealistic young partner, Officer Jack Mantle. Other main characters are manipulative industrialist Burt Montague, and his bold lab assistant Felicia Bari; perpetually unlucky Karen Katz, a former biology teacher who has turned herself into a human-cat hybrid; Esmerelda’s son Gabe, who might be the smartest teenager on the planet; and finally, nefarious super villain Dr. Cornelius Otherland, and his nemesis, bumbling superhero Gas Giant.

Story: N. Alessandro K.
Art: M.K. Perker
Color: Adam Guzowski
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Amazon

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NYCC 2025: The Lab Press Reveals Details for Retailer Day including Lunch and the debut of Artist Blvd.

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The Lab Press has announced its plans for New York Comic Con 2025 Retailer Day on October 8th, where they will not only be providing lunch for all attendees, but will also debut Artist Blvd., a new feature for 2025 with an expansive lineup of artists and writers, many of them represented by Fletch-A-Sketch, Kinetic Collectibles, Oni Robot Studio, and The Artist Bullpen. 

This year’s presence underscores The Lab Press’ growing commitment to supporting independent retailers with unique experiences with international artists and writers, differentiated products, creator-driven storytelling, and collectible editions that speak directly to in-store audiences. The following artists are scheduled to appear, and commissions, signatures, and remarques will be made available per the artist’s discretion:

  • Kinetic Collectibles
    • Dan Watters (The One Hand and The Six Fingers, Nightwing, Batman Dark Patterns)
    • DaNi (Sandman, Coffin Boun, Sensational Wonder Woman)
    • John J. Pearson (Blue in Green, Mindset, The Infernals)
    • Caspar Wijngaard (The Power Fantasy, Home Sick Pilots, Star Wars: Doctor Aphra)

In addition, artists and writers from THE LAB PRESS’s 2025 and 2026 publishing lineup will be part of ARTIST BLVD, including :

  • Chris “Doc” Wyatt (Ninjago, Legend of Vox Machina, Spider-Man)
  • N. Alessandro K. (Concrete Blondes, Carter & June)
  • M.K. Perker (Todd, The Ugliest Kid On Earth, Air, Cairo, The Unwritten)
  • Nihaarika Negi (Labours Of (An)Other Solipsist, The Threshold, Feral)
  • Brandon Auman (Critical Role, Star Wars: Resistance, Spider-Man, TMNT)
  • E. M. Gist (Star Wars, Conan, Spider-Man – MTG, Daredevil)
  • Adam Lawson (Mad Dog Morgan, The Exiled, Kids & Monsters, Kill Journal)
  • Jerry Ma (Conan The Barbarian: Eastern Horizons, The Monkey King, Legend)

With Artist Blvd., The Lab Press offers retailers a rare curated experience to engage directly with some of the most visionary artists and writers working in the industry today. Retailers, join us at NYCC 2025 Retailer Day to celebrate the power of storytelling, discover exclusive offerings, and be part of a one-of-a-kind event tailored for the future of comics retail.

Super Science #0 teases out some great ideas and shows potential

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This promotionally priced $0.99 comic presents an exclusive 22-page story that leads into The Lab‘s upcoming original graphic novel Super Science, available only here! Super Science: Chapter Zero introduces a world turned on its head by the Amethyst Incident-a mysterious catalyst that empowered tinkerers, inventors, and disruptors to create mind-bending scientific marvels overnight. In this chaotic new reality, readers meet a human-cat hybrid named Karen as she infiltrates a high-society sex party in Los Angeles. Her mission? To steal top-secret tech from eccentric billionaire Burt Montague. Blending high-concept sci-fi with razor-sharp comedy, this prelude sets the stage for the upcoming original graphic novel, taking a satirical look at the absurd, often disastrous consequences of unchecked innovation.

Story: N. Alessandro K.
Art: M.K. Perker
Color: Adam Guzowski
Letterer: John J. Hill

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Preview: The Lab

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The Lab

Allison Conway (Author, Artist, Cover Artist)

The Lab is a wordless visual journey into the grim machinery of exploitation. Its nameless protagonist is held in solitary captivity, alternately poked, prodded, starved, drugged, and worse. Brief glimpses of other test subjects, undergoing their own ordeals, are few and far between. But is all this abuse and isolation purely arbitrary? Or is there a purpose?

Painstakingly and evocatively rendered, Allison Conway’s debut graphic novel explores the spectrum between lifeless gray and vivid color. It asks uncomfortable questions about the treatment we tolerate and the injustices underlying our modern world.

The Lab

Preview: The Lab

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The Lab

Allison Conway (Author, Artist, Cover Artist)

The Lab is a wordless visual journey into the grim machinery of exploitation. Its nameless protagonist is held in solitary captivity, alternately poked, prodded, starved, drugged, and worse. Brief glimpses of other test subjects, undergoing their own ordeals, are few and far between. But is all this abuse and isolation purely arbitrary? Or is there a purpose?

Painstakingly and evocatively rendered, Allison Conway’s debut graphic novel explores the spectrum between lifeless gray and vivid color. It asks uncomfortable questions about the treatment we tolerate and the injustices underlying our modern world.

The Lab