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ComicsPRO 2026: Tiny Onion Announces New Titles and More

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Tiny Onion​ CEO & Founder James Tynion IV led a presentation at this year’s ComicsPRO Comic Industry Conference to reveal details about the production house’s robust 2026 publishing and media plans. The presentation, which took place last Thursday, included the first reveal of Odin, a new original limited comic book series co-created by Tynion, Marguerite Bennett, and Letizia Cadonici, which is pure Nordic nightmare fuel.

Tynion also announced new Exquisite Corpses comics, including three new limited series about Season One killers Rascal Randy, Fox Mask Killer, and Lone Gunman, penned by Corpse Crew creators Tyler Boss, Che Grayson, and Pornsak Pichetshote. They were a core part of the writing team for Season One of the smash hit horror series and will return as writers for the upcoming Season Two.

Tiny Onion will also produce Exquisite Corpses: Book of the Dead, a one-shot anthology featuring short stories about the other killers from Exquisite Corpses Season One, hitting shelves this Halloween season. Image Comics will be publishing the new Exquisite Corpses comics as well as Odin. During the presentation, Tynion also spoke about Tiny Onion’s plans for the upcoming Exquisite Corpses: The Game TCG, new comic book series In Your Skin, a new arc of The Department of Truth, a slate of screen adaptations, and a Shop Tiny Onion Something is Killing the Children exclusive​ merch line.

In Your Skin

Five-time Eisner Award-winner Tynion is teaming up with Bennett, the brilliant bestselling writer of the new Witchblade reimagining and terrifying tale Mommy Blog, for new original horror comic book series, Odin.

Produced by Tiny Onion and in collaboration with Image Comics, Odin will be a nine-issue limited series debuting this May, co-created by rising star artist Cadonici, colored by Eisner Award-winner Jordie Bellaire, lettered by acclaimed artist Tom Napolitano, cleverly designed by Dylan Todd, and edited by horror mastermind Steve Foxe. Green Room meets Midsommar with a touch of The Ritual in this relentless hallucinogenic thriller that leaves absolutely no taboo unbroken.

Odin follows Adela, a thrill-seeking journalist who goes undercover to report on a band of Neo Nazis. She will do anything for the perfect story, including heading into the frozen forests of Norway with Neo Nazi punks who seek Odin to achieve their promised white supremacist destiny. But what awaits them in the woods is far older and stranger than any of them can comprehend, and no gods are coming to answer their prayers. 

Odin joins Tiny Onion’s aggressive slate of publishing and multimedia projects. It was announced last month that bestselling comic book series Exquisite Corpses and short film Room Service are both getting the feature treatment as part of a two-picture deal between Tiny Onion and producing partner Lyrical Media. Blumhouse Productions has also optioned Tynion’s groundbreaking comics horror franchise, Something is Killing the Children, to adapt both for film and for an animated television series with Tynion attached to produce alongside the series publisher BOOM! Studios. Plus, Tiny Onion’s expansive development slate in animation includes an adaptation of Tynion’s Image Comics series W0rldtr33 at Netflix, an adaptation of his BOOM! Studios series The Woods, and an original adult animated comedy series developed with production company Irony Point, Tipsy Dragon.

Odin will be stunningly presented with covers by celebrated comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn, who is illustrating the main Cover A for the full series. For the debut issue, Cadonici illustrated Cover B with additional variants by lauded artists Christian Ward, Martin Simmonds, and Jae Lee. 

Odin #1 will be available at comic book stores on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026. 

Horror masterminds Tynion and Michael Walsh are expanding their Exquisite Corpses battle royale-style realm further with four new titles and more spinning out of the groundbreaking comic book series.

Produced by Tiny Onion and published by Image Comics, Exquisite Corpses was the biggest original IP comic hit of 2025 with over 600k issues sold to date, marking the best debut comic for Tynion in over three years. Now the horror franchise is growing to include three new spin-off comic book limited series and an anthology one-shot in addition to the upcoming second arc, the feature film adaptation, and the soon-to-launch tabletop card game.

In Exquisite Corpses, every five years on Halloween, the wealthiest families in America play a game. 12 of the deadliest people in the world are dropped into a small town with just one goal: last killer standing wins. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine, this year’s unlucky arena, the goal is much simpler. They must survive the night. As the 13-issue Season One comes to an epic conclusion in May, more Exquisite Corpses is on the way.

Three new five-issue Exquisite Corpses limited series delve further into the history of fan-favorite killers from Season One. Rascal Randy, Fox Mask Killer, and Lone Gunman will be written by Boss, Grayson, and Pichetshote, respectively.

The first miniseries to debut, Exquisite Corpses: ​Rascal Randy, will get inside the twisted mind of the bunny mascot costume-wearing serial killer who uses his hands as his weapon of choice. Along with writing by Boss, the series will be illustrated by Dylan Burnett. The limited series will be colored by Eisner Award-winner Jordie Bellaire, and lettered by rising star Becca Carey. Boss and Bellaire are also a part of Tiny Onion’s growing Artists in Residence program, which also includes Tate Brombal and Aditya Bidikar.

Along with the comics, Tiny Onion is launching Exquisite Corpses: The Game, a social strategy battle royale tabletop card game this summer. Tiny Onion’s game website includes instructions on how to play and information about the upcoming Kickstarter campaign. Walsh is no stranger to TCGs; he has illustrated a number of Magic: The Gathering cards. Fans can beta test an early version of the game now with cards either collected from the polybagged Variant C editions of the comics (inclusive of the rare foil cards), as well as Event Cards found at Tiny Onion’s Corpse Tour, or with printables from the website.

As part of the Exquisite Corpses franchise, Lyrical Media and Tiny Onion are developing a feature film adaptation and are currently packaging it with A-list talent. Lyrical Media and Tiny Onion envision adapting the source material for animation and video games in the future. Tynion will produce the feature film for Tiny Onion with Michael Walsh joining as executive producer and Alexander Black and Arlen Konopaki producing for Lyrical Media, with Jon Rosenberg from Lyrical Media as an executive producer. Tynion launched Tiny Onion in 2023 with a seed investment from Lyrical Media, the banner behind upcoming feature films The Death of Robin Hood and Onslaught, to serve as a cross-platform incubator for his original IP. 

Exquisite Corpses: Rascal Randy #1 will be available at comic book stores this July, followed by Fox Mask Killer and Lone Gunman hitting shelves later in 2026.

It’s Ancient Norse Beings vs. Neo Nazi Punks in Odin by James Tynion IV, Marguerite Bennett, and Letizia Cadonici

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Writer James Tynion IV is teaming up with co-writer Marguerite Bennett, rising star artist Letizia Cadonici, colorist Jordie Bellaire, high-flying letterer Tom Napolitano, designer Dylan Todd, and editor Steve Foxe for an all-new horror tale in the upcoming Odin. This nine-issue miniseries promises to go light on the honeyed mead, but will tip a heavy pour of Nordic nightmare fuel when it hits shelves in May from Image Comics and Tiny Onion.

Odin will be stunningly presented with covers by celebrated comic and album artist Alex Eckman-Lawn, who is illustrating the main Cover A for the full series. For the debut issue, Cadonici illustrated Cover B with additional variants by lauded artists Christian Ward, Martin Simmonds, and Jae Lee.

Odin follows Adela, a thrill-seeking journalist who goes undercover to report on a band of Neo Nazis. She will do anything for the perfect story, including heading into the frozen forests of Norway with Neo Nazi punks who seek Odin to achieve their promised white supremacist destiny. But what awaits them in the woods is far older and stranger than any of them can comprehend, and no gods are coming to answer their prayers. Green Room meets Midsommar with a touch of The Ritual in this relentless hallucinogenic thriller that leaves absolutely no taboo unbroken.

Odin #1 will be available at comic book stores on Wednesday, May 6:

  • Cover A by Alex Eckman-Lawn
  • Cover B by Letizia Cadonici 1:10
  • Cover C by Christian Ward 1:25
  • Cover D by Martin Simmonds 1:50
  • Cover E by Jae Lee 1:100
  • Cover F by Blank Sketch $5.99
  • Cover G “Stealth Variant”

Dark Horse and Tiny Onion Presents Monsters In Love: A Pride Anthology

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This June, celebrate love with Dark Horse Comics and Tiny Onion’s newest one-shot, Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology!

This anthology includes ten new standalone stories blending horror and romance in the style of classic EC Comics anthologies by fan-favorite LGBTQIA+ creators, including James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Jadzia Axelrod, Vita Ayala, Zoe Tunnell, Josh Trujillo, Lee Knox Ostetag, Kenny Wroten, Jacoby Salcedo, Lilah Sturges, Vash Taylor, and more.

This super-sized special also includes a framing story by the three-time GLAAD Media Award-nominated creative team of The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos. Finally, the one-shot will feature three covers by V. Gagnon, Bradley Clayton, and Rian Sygh and a back-cover by Isaac Goodhart and Miquel Muerto.

Monsters in Love: A Pride Anthology one-shot arrives in comic shops on June 3, 2026 and is now available for pre-order from your local comic shop for $9.99.

Preview: Exquisite Corpses #8

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Exquisite Corpses #8

(W) James Tynion IV, Pornsak Pichetshote (A) Michael Walsh, Adam Gorham

As the dust settles and the bodies are counted, a brutal new playing field is revealed. A killer shows their true face… and a survivor takes their first life. Eisner-nominated writer Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian) and accomplished artist Adam Gorham (Hellhunters) rejoin James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh to ratchet up the tension on the most talked-about horror epic of the year!

Exquisite Corpses #8

Tiny Onion Kicks Off a Slate of Adult Animation with The Woods and Brings Casey Gonzalez on as Director of Multimedia

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The Woods

Led by CEO James Tynion IV, Tiny Onion is kicking off the production house’s robust adult animation slate with an adaptation of Tynion’s The Woods, based on the award-winning comic book series published by BOOM! Studios. The acclaimed sci-fi horror comics were co-created by Tynion and artist Michael Dialynas. To launch the animation slate, Tiny Onion is bringing aboard Casey Gonzalez as Director of Multimedia to oversee development for the company’s animated projects.

GLAAD Media Award-winning comic book series which debuted in 2014, The Woods tells the story of an ordinary high school in suburban Milwaukee, WI, which is suddenly transported into the midst of an alien forest in an uncharted corner of the universe. With no sign of why they were taken there, or what threats lurk in the dark woods surrounding their school, the story follows a group of students determined to figure out how to survive, and more importantly, how to get home. Tiny Onion has optioned the property from BOOM! Studios. The animated series will see Tynion and Dialynas executive producing for Tiny Onion. Stephen Christy and Mette Norkjaer will executive produce the series for BOOM! Studios.

The Woods will be Gonzalez’s first project as Director of Multimedia at Tiny Onion since joining the team in December. Previous to Tiny Onion, she spent a decade working alongside animation industry legend Fred Seibert (Adventure Time, Bee and Puppycat) as his VP of Development at FredFilms, where she developed original cartoons, including the viral short The Summoning, which is being adapted into a three book series for Oni Press. 

Casey Gonzalez

Gonzalez began her career in publishing, editing bestselling graphic novels for First Second and helping launch the acclaimed Science Comics series while shepherding New York Times bestselling titles such as Eisner Award winner Battling Boy, Hugo Award nominated book The Divine, and Green Book Award winner Coral Reefs. She later transitioned into the role of Head Writer and Producer at Frederator, where she launched the popular anime vertical Get in the Robot, and subsequently at Crunchyroll, the world’s largest anime streaming service. At Tiny Onion, Gonzalez looks forward to uniting her love of comics with her experience shaping top tier shows.

The Woods is a part of an expanding adult animation slate that also includes an animated adaptation of Tynion’s Image Comics horror sci-fi series W0RLDTR33 in development at Netflix. Co-created by Fernando Blanco and colored by multi Eisner Award-winning colorist Jordie Belliare, W0RLDTR33 tells the story of a dark evil within the internet that may destroy humanity. Tynion and Blanco will serve as Executive Producers on the series with Ashley Cardiff (Fear The Walking Dead) set as Showrunner and Executive Producer. Sean Buckelew of Green Street Pictures (Common Side Effects, Scavenger’s Reign) will also serve as Executive Producer and the team has just brought on Guillaume Dousse of Æsten studio (Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, Flee) to lead visual development and art direction for the series.

W0RLDTR33

Additionally, Tiny Onion is developing an adult animated comedy series The Tipsy Dragon with production company Irony Point. The series is being developed by Daniel Powell (Ugly Americans). RJ Fried, Mike Leech, and Zach Smilovitz (Our Cartoon President) are attached to write and help produce. An original concept from Tynion, The Tipsy Dragon is set in a tavern in a world where the age of heroes and legends is long past—and its barkeep and patrons couldn’t care less about their supposed role in an ancient battle between good and evil just outside their doorstep. 

Tynion and BOOM! Studios are also teaming up with iconic horror production company Blumhouse for an adult animated television series and a live-action feature film based on Tynion and Werther Dell’Edera’s record breaking, award-winning, and global best-selling series Something is Killing the Children. Set in a world where children can see monsters, but adults cannot, Something is Killing the Children tells the story of Erica Slaughter, a monster hunter from a mysterious organization more concerned with keeping the secret of monsters from the world than saving their victims. The animated series will be adapted and executive produced by Tynion, with Dell’Edera serving as Co-Executive Producer and visual development consultant. Stephen Christy will executive produce the series for BOOM! Studios, with Mette Norkjaer and Adam Yoelin serving as Co-Executive Producer.

Tiny Onion is backed by a seed investment from Lyrical Media, the Los Angeles and New York-based company that develops, produces, and finances unique stories across multi-media formats, including film, television, video games, and graphic novels. It was recently announced that Lyrical Media has launched Lyrical Animation to tap into global demand for adult animation, with an emphasis on animated features. Lyrical Animation is headed by seasoned Animation industry veterans Jacob Robinson, Daniel Dominguez, and Brad Graeber, and has many projects in development including an adaptation of the video game Death Stranding. Tiny Onion will be working closely with Lyrical Animation on its animation slate.

Preview: Exquisite Corpses #8

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Exquisite Corpses #8

(W) James Tynion IV, Pornsak Pichetshote (A) Michael Walsh, Adam Gorham

As the dust settles and the bodies are counted, a brutal new playing field is revealed. A killer shows their true face… and a survivor takes their first life. Eisner-nominated writer Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian) and accomplished artist Adam Gorham (Hellhunters) rejoin James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh to ratchet up the tension on the most talked-about horror epic of the year!

Exquisite Corpses #8

Preview: Exquisite Corpses #7

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Exquisite Corpses #7

(W) James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh (A) Michael Walsh, Claire Roe

Every Halloween, all the teenagers in Oak Valley throw a party out at the Pit. Tonight, as the keg is tapped and the band kicks off their set, survivors and killers alike make their way toward the festivities, ready to light the fuse on the most explosive rager the town has ever seen…

Michael Walsh (Universal Monsters: Frankenstein) and Claire Roe (Dark Spaces: Hollywood Special) rejoin James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth) for a brutal turning point in the smash-hit horror phenomenon!

Exquisite Corpses #7

Tiny Onion reveals a play through of Exquisite Corpses: The Game

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Tiny Onion has added ​a new 40-minute play through video of Exquisite Corpses: The Game to the recently launched Exquisite Corpses: The Game website. The play through video features Eisner Award-winning horror masterminds, James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh, co-creators of the bestselling Tiny Onion and Image Comics comic book series Exquisite Corpses, alongside a “Corpse Crew” of A-list comic book talent.

For the play through video, Tynion and Walsh are joined by Corpse Crew creators writer Che Grayson and artist Adam Hughes, Tiny Onion Director of Production Courtney Menard, and popular ASMR creator ALB, competing against each other. Shot in a studio and directed by ALB, the in-depth video features behind the scenes commentary from Game Master Walsh and the Exquisite Corpses talent. It was produced by Tiny Onion Director of Communications Jazzlyn Stone, shot by Camera Operator Ishkhan Ghazarian, with Aaron Losty as the Script Coordinator.

The Exquisite Corpses: The Game website includes instructions on how to play the social strategy battle royale tabletop card game based on the hit comic book series which has sold over 400,000 copies. The new site has a set of 12 printable Event cards, and fans can get access to a set of 6 printable Killer cards if they sign up for alerts for the Kickstarter. 

Created and developed fully in-house, Tiny Onion’s Exquisite Corpses: The Game will be launching as a Kickstarter campaign in spring 2026 so that fans can not only get the game deck, but also special edition cards and game accessories. Fans can beta test an early version of the game now with cards either collected from the polybagged Variant C editions of the comics (inclusive of the rare foil cards), as well as Event cards found at Tiny Onion’s Corpse Tour. Walsh is no stranger to TCGs; he has illustrated a number of Magic: The Gathering cards.

Exquisite Corpses: The Game is a casual tabletop game perfect for fans of trading card classics like Magic: The Gathering and party experiences like Ultimate Werewolf. Needing only a deck of cards and some dice, a group of 4-12 players each pick their favorite Killer and proceed to attack, bluff, and barter with their fellow Killers until just one remains. This is a widely accessible game with deceptive complexity; each Killer possesses unique skills that can harmonize or clash with the other Killers in play. No two games are alike, so players can immediately play again and again and get different results.

The newly launched website features a section where fans can subscribe to be notified of the upcoming Kickstarter campaign. The site also includes 6 printable Killer cards, 12 printable Event cards, and printable status effect tokens, with a page of information about the dozen Killers in the game. The “How to Play” section includes details about how to get a game going, including a step-by-step guide, information about game actions and status effects, and Event card rules. Under “Resources,” players can find not only the printables, but also a randomizer to determine the order of Killer selection, play order, and whenever an attack, skill, or Event card calls for a roll of the die.

Walsh started designing the game mechanics even ahead of the first story summit in Buffalo, where the Corpse Crew and Tiny Onion team gathered in a writers room to break out the first season. Via dry-erase cards, the Corpse Crew did the first beta test at the summit. To ensure quality gameplay and balance, Walsh has been playtesting the game since early 2024 with a dedicated playtester group, dubbed “The Barn Burners.” The goal was to create a game that is easy to pick up, but hard to put down.

In Exquisite Corpses, every five years on Halloween, the wealthiest families in America play a game. Twelve of the deadliest people in the world are dropped into a small town with just one goal: last killer standing wins. For the citizens of Oak Valley, Maine—this year’s unlucky arena—the goal is much simpler. They must survive the night. The first issue can be read digitally for free on the Image Comics site.

The series came together in a writers’ room led by Tynion IV and Walsh and made up of “Corpse Crew” comics superstars Adam Gorham, Becca Carey, Che Grayson, Claire Roe, Gavin Fullerton, Jordie Bellaire, Marianna Ignazzi, Pornsak Pichetshote, Tyler Boss, and Valentine De Landro. Each issue of the series builds upon the last in a true ‘exquisite corpse’ game style, with a passing of the storytelling baton from creator-to-creator in a collaborative and competitive fashion.

Exquisite Corpses #6 has you cheering for one of the contestants to lose

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“Trick or treat” has never had deadlier stakes as Craig and Jason unknowingly go door to door with this year’s youngest killer. And a high score for G4m3r_K1d means a very bad night for everyone else… Multi-hyphenate talent Tyler Boss (You’ll Do Bad Things) and breakout talent Gavin Fullerton (The Closet) join James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh for Exquisite Corpses’ most gut-wrenching chapter yet! Each Cover C polybag variant will include one collectible trading card. Collect all 13 issues to make a complete card deck set.

Story: James Tynion IV, Tyler Boss
Art: Michael Walsh, Gavin Fullerton
Color: Jordie Bellaire
Letterer: Becca Carey

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