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Essential Judge Death: My Name Is Death is a great introduction to the Judge Dredd villain

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The Essential Judge Death: My Name Is Death is the perfect introduction to Judge Dredd’s greatest foe.

From the pen of acclaimed Judge Dredd creator John Wagner (A History of Violence) comes the origin story of 2000 AD’s most enduring villain. Includes Young Death, with art by Peter Doherty (Shaolin Cowboy), Tea With Mrs. Gunderson by artist Dean Ormston (Black Hammer) and the classic My Name Is Death and The Wilderness Days with art by Frazer Irving (Batman & Robin).

This collection is an ideal jumping on point for new readers.

Story: John Wagner
Art: Frazer Irving, Peter Doherty, Dean Ormston
Letterer: Tom Frame, Ellie De Ville, Gordon Robson, Steve Potter

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

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The Beauty Book One is an even more fascinating read in a post-COVID world

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In a culture increasingly obsessed with physical beauty, what if you could be guaranteed a shortcut to becoming beautiful? A sexually transmitted disease has started transforming people who catch it, changing their facial features and body types to something more in line with society’s perceived ideal. The only catch? You will have a slight, persistent fever. But who cares how you feel when you look so good?

Those who pursued this alleged perfection are in for a rude awakening. After an indeterminate amount of time with the disease, it has deadly consequences as that fever finally burns you from the inside out. For Detectives Vaughn and Foster, investigating the first mysterious deaths of Beauty victims leads them into a dark world they never expected, full of corrupt politicians, murderous federal agents, and a secret society of crooks and killers.

Relive the first spellbinding story arc of THE BEAUTY, as well as a selection of stories that expand the world. The first of three all-new editions collecting the entire original series, this volume includes the first eleven issues, co-written by series creators Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley, with art by Haun, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, and Stephen Green.

This volume collects issues 1-11 of the original series.

Story: Jeremy Haun, Jason A. Hurley
Art: Jeremy Haun, Mike Huddleston, Brett Weldele, Stephen Green
Color: John Rauch
Letterer: Fonografiks

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

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American Caper’s collection arrives June 23, 2026

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Dark Horse Comics and Absurd Ventures have announced that the first collected edition volume of creator-writer Dan Houser’s acclaimed new crime fiction comic book series, American Caper, will be released on June 23, 2026. Titled American Caper: Red-Pilled Blues, this trade paperback collects the first four issues of the series and preorders are now live.

Created and written by Rockstar Games co-founder and longtime creative force behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, Dan Houser, the series features a murderer’s row of fellow crime fiction talent including Houser’s longtime writing collaborator, Lazlow, and artwork by Eisner Award–winner David Lapham, Chris Anderson, and Lee Loughridge, with covers by Tyler Boss.

Set in Verona, Wyoming, American Caper follows two neighboring families on the brink of collapse: 

A Mormon hitman. A gambling-addict lawyer. Two neighbors intertwined in a real estate deal gone wrong. Mix in a Mexican beauty queen on the run from her past, a red-pilled housewife, two escaped convicts in love, a Wall Street billionaire who has become a cowboy, and a maniac hell-bent on revenge. The manicured wilderness of Verona, Wyoming is the perfect cocktail of American culture: real estate development, violence and snake oil.

From the tax-avoiders in the Rockies, to the thought police of Brooklyn, to the confused political and environmental battlegrounds of Florida, one thing is certain: This tragedy is someone else’s fault.

To be among the first to secure a pre-order of the inaugural trade paperback collected volume, please visit Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or place an order via your local comic book shop or bookstore. Copies will be available in-store starting June 23, 2026.

American Caper: Red-Pilled Blues

The Pedestrian delivers a weirdly charming hero we want more of

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Behold, The Pedestrian! A strange visitor speedwalks into Summer City and silently changes the lives of its residents. But not all is quiet in this sleepy, small town-an ancient conflict linked to the secret history of street signs is brewing! DON’T WALK… RUN! In The Pedestrian, justice always has the right of way!

Story: Joey Esposito
Art: Sean Von Gorman
Color: Josh Jensen
Letters: Shawn Lee
Additional Art: David Bowie Rendon-Gorman, Micah Williams

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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Bad Idea reveals David and Maria Lapham’s The Ends for March 2026

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THE ENDS TPB

Written by DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM
Art by DAVID LAPHAM
Colors by BILL CRABTREE
Cover by LEWIS LAROSA
$19.99 | 144 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FINAL ORDER CUTOFF FEBRUARY 9, 2026 | IN STORES MARCH 11, 2026

This July, Bad Idea launched its first-ever trade paperback, The Hero Trade: Hero for Sale TPB to widespread critical acclaim. There’s only one book that Bad Idea thought could follow it, The Ends!

From the mind of comic book national treasure and living legend, David Lapham, in partnership with the incredible talents of his wife, Maria Lapham, comes a series critics have described as a true modern masterpiece.

Witness their artistic triumph reborn in breathtaking color thanks to the talents of superstar colorist, Bill Crabtree and now jam-packed with extended sequences, new connective material, additional pages, brand-new scenes, patched panels, rewritten dialogue, and more!

It’s 1985 and Jennifer End and Angelo Rodriguez are deeply in love. But Jennifer can never reveal their relationship to their family. The Ends are considered by some to be traditional, but by most, they are known as intolerant, discriminatory, and bigoted.

Her brother, Jack, is the worst of the bunch and a full blown, hardcore skinhead. During the summer, when Jennifer travels to Oceanside, a retirement home for veterans, to be with Angelo under the guise of visiting her grandparents, Jack discovers their relationship.

Jack is crushed by the betrayal. He decides it’s time to take a stand. Jack organizes a rally in the peaceful town of Oceanside. Soon the town is overrun by neo-Nazi youths. The police struggle to maintain control, leaving the only hope with the aging World War 2, Korean War, and Vietnam War veterans who reside in the town.

Experience a first-look at this stunning new collection below. Secure your copy by pre-ordering with your local comic shop before Final Order Cutoff on Monday, February 9th! The Ends comes to shops March 11, 2026.

The Ends

Preview: The Pale Knight

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The Pale Knight

(W) Peter Milligan (A) Val Rodrigues (C) Cristiane Peter (L) Dave Sharpe

England, 1349. Sir Hugh de Grey, the Pale Knight, returns from war to find a land ravaged by the Black Death, and his son dying of the plague. When he prays to God to save his son’s life, it is not God who answers—but Death himself. And Death is willing to cut a deal.

Written by the acclaimed Peter Milligan (Enigma, Shade the Changing, XStatix) and illustrated by Val Rodrigues (Deep Roots, Unnatural Order), with colors by Cristiane Peter, and letters by Dave Sharpe, The Pale Knight immerses readers in a world ravaged by plague and despair.

The Pale Knight

Vanishing Point Vol. 1 arrives January 2026 from Mad Cave Studios

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Six extraordinary journeys… Into the unknown! This January, Mad Cave Studios presents Vanishing Point Vol. 1, the celebrated sci-fi collection from Eisner, GLAAD, and Ringo Award-winning writer Mark Russell, delivering six standalone stories that confront survival, autonomy, and humanity’s most uncomfortable questions.

Each issue contains work by a different artist in this dynamic collection, including Juan Doe,  Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Alberto Ponticelli, and Jok, plus colors by Sidney Davidson and Ellie Wright, and letters by Carlos M. Mangual and more. Vanishing Point showcases an anthology of darkly satirical, thought-provoking tales of survival, identity, and the moral dilemmas that define us.

From the minds of Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Russell and artist Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Vanishing Point is where sci-fi meets existential dread. These short stories don’t end with a twist—they begin there. Each revelation cracks open something deeper, asking the questions we try not to face… what does it mean to be alive? In Screams, a seasoned mining ship captain embarks on a ten-year solo mission to space where he makes a horrifying discovery. The Tomorrow Family is a dark reimagining of the cartoon family of tomorrow, living in a future that might have been. In Cell Structure, a floating research station performs horrifying experiments on alien prisoners to discover the common elements all living things. In Proof of Life, a robot is put on trial for the ultimate offense of being alive. In Grave Remedies, a futuristic health clinic keeps patients alive against their will. But why? And in The Mission, a genocidal visitor arrives on Earth with a mission of mass extermination and a secret that could change everything. This volume collects all six issues of the critically acclaimed series.

Vanishing Point Vol. 1 lands in comic shops and bookstores January 20, 2026.

Vanishing Point Vol. 1

Preview: We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us TP

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We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us TP

(W) Matthew Rosenberg (A) Stefano Landini

James Bond meets The Island of Doctor Moreau in this graphic novel about a young girl who discovers her father isn’t the hero she believed, but one of the most dangerous super-spy villains on the planet.

After her mad-scientist father is killed by the world’s greatest spy, 13-year-old Annalise is left all alone in the world. Sort of. Her dead dad’s robot bodyguard won’t stop following her around for some reason. Now Annalise has a choice: try to lead a normal life for the first time ever…or seek revenge and maybe overthrow the world order in the process.

Embark on a journey of regret and retribution, super spies and pseudoscience, growing up and global domination from brilliant artist STEFANO LANDINI (Prodigy, Hellblazer) and okay writer MATTHEW ROSENBERG (What’s the Furthest Place From Here?, Uncanny X-Men)

We're Taking Everyone Down with Us TP

Preview: This Ends Tonight TP

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This Ends Tonight TP

(S) Kelvin Mao, Robert Windom (W) Gerry Duggan (A) Jae Lee

THIS ENDS TONIGHT presents three intertwining tales of revenge that tears through Las Vegas on a single action-packed night.

Sin City has about 250 murder victims sent to the morgue every year — these three tales eclipse that in just a few hours with guns, knives, swords, poison, a spike strip and vehicular mayhem. THIS ENDS TONIGHT!

GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men & Deadpool) and JAE LEE (Eisner-winning artist of Inhumans and Hellshock) team up with co-writers KELVIN MAO and ROBERT WINDOM and colorist JUNE CHUNG.

Collects all 3 issues.

This Ends Tonight TP
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