BOOM! Studios has released a first look at Blow Away #1. Writer Zac Thompson along with artist Nicola Izzo, colorist Francesco Segala with Gloria Martinelli, and letterer DC Hopkins of Andworld Design, team-up for a neo-noir crime thriller in the tradition of Fargo and Rear Window! Coming to shops April 17.
Unyielding wildlife videographer Brynne Brautigan, isolated in the frigid, remote Baffin Island, sees something she can’t unsee…
In the distance, she witnesses an argument followed by an instance of intense violence between two climbers–did she just see a murder? In a frantic search for the truth, Brynne discovers just what she’s looking for, but soon she will find that more than the silent white of winter is keeping her company…
Blow Away #1 features covers by Annie Wu, Tyler Boss, and Tula Lotay with Dee Cunniffe.
(W) Karl Kerschl, Torunn Gronbekk, Delilah S. Dawson and Zac Thompson (A) Karl Kerschl, Fernando Pasarin, Serg Acuna and Ashley Wood In Shops: Mar 26, 2024 SRP: $7.99
Tristan Grey has mutated into a terrifying new version of Man-Bat, and it’s up to Batman and Maps to save him! But, when it turns out that Tristan is not the only person who has been infected by the Man-Bat serum, it will be Batman and Maps versus an army of leather-winged monsters! Also, Lois Lane falls deeper down the conspiracy rabbit hole, and Artemis continues her hunt! And lastly, Batman finds himself in a folk horror nightmare courtesy of Zac Thompson and Ashley Wood in a new Batman Black & White tale that has to be seen to be believed.
(W) Zac Thompson (A) Jeff McComsey (C) Paul Little (L) Justin Birch
Sam Safdie and his intrepid group of treasure hunters set out to uncover the secrets that lie within the massive Nazi complex built underneath the Owl Mountains… Project Riese. Though they’re hoping to find a fortune in missing gold, but the truth of the complex is much more complex. At their backs is an awful German Archeologist known only as The Baron who will stop at nothing to steal the secrets of Project Riese for himself. But little do either of them know – the complex houses strange secrets that skirt the edges of known science. Secrets that are dying to escape the abandoned facility….
Due to the overwhelming success of critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson and artist Daniel Irizarri, Oni Press has announced that Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #1 is now sold out at the distributor level and will return with the Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #1 Second Printing Variant by series creator and illustrator Daniel Irizarri. This brand-new second printing will hit FOC on March 4th, 2024, and will arrive in stores on March 27th, 2024.
The 21st century sucks hard, but it’s made somewhat tolerable by the latest and greatest media innovations. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep. The obsession of millions around the globe, it’s also the one point of solace for four friends known as the “Cemetery Kids,” who spend their nights roaming the endless maps of the most brutal horror game ever created as they seek to dethrone the “King of Sleep”—the Dreamwave’s biggest, baddest, and most mysterious boss.
Which was fun . . . until one of them doesn’t wake up and finds their consciousness locked inside a horror game that is anything but imaginary. Now, the three remaining Cemetery Kids must navigate a forbidden landscape to rescue their friend—and pray that the secret lurking at its center doesn’t follow them home.
Oni Press has revealed a first look inside Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #2! Acclaimed duo Zac Thompson and Daniel Irizarri delve further into a dystopian digital realm where every level is darker and more daunting than the last…and the dangers that lurk within the pixelated landscape may just have crushing repercussions for the real world Dare to descend into the mystery of the Dreamwave in Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #2 – on sale March 27th, 2024!
After Pik’s tragic encounter with the King of Sleep, Birdie is adamant that her brother—while appearing to be in a coma—is actually trapped within the game Nightmare Cemetery. She and their friends must rescue him, but she’ll have to navigate her father’s resentment and Pik’s unburied secrets. Once the sun goes down, and with Wilson and Enid by her side, they enter the Piped District, where the game play is increasing in complexity and horror as it begins to tap into their deepest fears.
Featuring eye-searing covers from artists Daniel Irizarri and Alex Eckman-Lawn, Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #2 arrives in shops March 27th. Can you survive the next level? Plus, don’t miss Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #1 2nd Printing, on shelves alongside Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #2 on March 27th!
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Twenty-five years ago, the groundbreaking space operaFarscapedebuted on television – bucking decades of science fiction tropes, breaking new technical ground coupled with ambitious story-telling, and inspiring generations of fans in the process.
BOOM! Studios, in partnership with The Jim Henson Company, celebrates the legacy of Moya’s crew with a brand new 25th Anniversary comic book special alongside a complete two volume book set collecting the entirety of the BOOM! Studios’ Farscape library along with commemorative collectibles in the Farscape 25th Anniversary Celebration BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign. Previously written by show creator Rockne S. O’Bannon, BOOM! Studios’ Farscape comic books were an official extension of the storytelling of the original show.
Reserve your copy of Farscape Book One and Book Two 25th Anniversary Editions in softcover, hardcover, slipcased hardcover, signed slipcased hardcover and hyper-limited character edition slipcases featuring John Crichton, Aeryn Sun, Dominar Rygel, Ka D’Argo, Chiana, and Zotoh Zhaan! Each collected edition offered through this BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign will feature exclusive cover art by popular cover illustrator Justine Florentino.
Additionally, this BOOM! Direct Reserve campaign will feature a campaign exclusive cover for the upcoming Farscape 25th Anniversary Special #1 by red hot illustrator Nimit Malavia featuring brand new adventures set in the universe of Farscape by iconic creators such as Sam Humphries, Francesco Mortarino, Sarah Gailey, and Zac Thompson, the first new Farscape stories published in over a decade! Also available will be a campaign exclusive cover for Farscape #1 Archive Edition also by Malavia – reprinting of the very first Farscape comic published by BOOM! Studios!
Farscape 25th Anniversary Celebration BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign will continue to March 21, with special surprises, product reveals, and hidden stretch goals to be announced all month long.
Written by ZAC THOMPSON Art by DANIEL IRIZARRI Cover A by DANIEL IRIZARRI Cover B by DUSTIN WEAVER Cover C by JAMES STOKOE Cover D by VLAD LEGOSTAEV Full art variant (1:20) by JAMES STOKOE Full art variant (1:30) by DUSTIN WEAVER ON SALE FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | $4.99 | 32 pgs | FC
The 21st century sucks hard, but it’s made somewhat tolerable by the latest and greatest media innovations. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep. The obsession of millions around the globe, it’s also the one point of solace for four friends known as the “Cemetery Kids,” who spend their nights roaming the endless maps of the most brutal horror game ever created as they seek to dethrone the “King of Sleep”—the Dreamwave’s biggest, baddest, and most mysterious boss.
Which was fun . . . until one of them doesn’t wake up and finds their consciousness locked inside a horror game that is anything but imaginary. Now, the three remaining Cemetery Kids must navigate a forbidden landscape to rescue their friend—and pray that the secret lurking at its center doesn’t follow them home.
The Dreamwave console offers the perfect escape from the mundanity of your lives in the modern age, all the while you play it as you sleep. Aside from the popular system is the game “Nightmare Cemetery,” which attracts all teens to it. One group of friends, The Cemetery Kids, have become obsessed with the game and spend every night exploring its various quests. However, when one of the teenagers does not wake up and finds their mind still connected to the machine, it’s up to his friends to rescue him and prevent what lurks inside from attaching.
Zac Thompson and Daniel Irizarri’s Cemetery Kids Don’t Die #1 offers a fresh take on similar past narratives by delving into a more prominent horror direction. While calling to mind films like Jumanji, the series shares a much closer DNA to A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, focusing on a group of misfit friends who have to band together to battle horrors while asleep in another realm. Considering the amount of ground to cover for a first issue, Thompson and Irizarri do an excellent job of establishing the characters, the story, and the world of the video game. As an RPG fan, they did a solid job of capturing the stakes and emotions while playing those types of games and capturing the aesthetics of the genre.
Thompson nails the ensemble nature of the story by providing enough information about the individual characters and crafting engaging relationships among them. Outside of working together as a party in the game, you see their dynamics and quirks in real life. I quickly became invested in Pik, his sister Birdie, and their friends, who come across as realistic teens with real problems who want to escape the mundanity of their lives by playing “Nightmare Cemetery.” As a result, when horror comes to the forefront of the story, it hits on a much more intricate level due to the attachment to the characters.
Irizarri’s art superbly contrasts the boring reality the teenagers live in with the more fantastical horror of the video game setting. Aside from crafting visually unique designs for the players’ avatars, Izarri makes sure to have some familiarity with them to help differentiate each role they have in the party. Also, I love the fantasy horror aesthetic, which never comes across as cliched but is well-realized and designed. The design of the teenagers also feel appropriately angsty and moody. Brittany Peer’s spooky color palette of blues, pinkish purples, and green helps the world of “Nightmare Cemetery” come to life while calling to mind classic 80s horror movies. I also liked Andworld Design’s strong lettering, as it is cohesive with the comic book world.
Combining fantasy horror with RPG flourishes, Cemetery Kids Don’t Die crafts a solid first issue as it sets up the overwhelming odds the teenagers must overcome to succeed. The series is perfect for not only horror fans but fans of fantasy and RPGs as well. Once you start reading, it’s hard to let go.
Oni Press has announced a publishing partnership with William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. that will see the full-fledged return of EC Comics to comic shop and bookstore shelves worldwide with a slate of all-new series beginning in the summer of 2024.
Beginning with Epitaphs From the Abyss #1 in July andCruel Universe #1 in August – the first official EC Comics series produced in nearly seven decades – Oni’s ambitious EC Comics publishing program will be overseen by Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson and Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn in partnership with Cathy Gaines Mifsud and Corey Mifsud, the daughter and grandson of legendary EC Publisher William M. Gaines and administrators of William M. Gaines Agent, Inc.
Edited by Hahn, Oni’s curated line of EC titles – which will include at least two series on a monthly basis from July 2024 onward in the genres of horror, science fiction, fantasy, and more – will feature contributions from a rotating cast of high-profile comics talents that includes writers Jason Aaron, Brian Azzarello, Rodney Barnes, Corinna Bechko, Cullen Bunn, Christopher Cantwell, Cecil Castellucci, Chris Condon, Joshua Hale Fialkov, J. Holtham, Jeff Jensen, Matt Kindt, Sean Lewis, Stephanie Phillips, Jay Stephens, Zac Thompson, Ben H. Winters, and more; artists Kano, Peter Krause, Leomacs, Malachi Ward, Dustin Weaver, and more; designer Rian Hughes; alongside covers from Lee Bermejo, Greg Smallwood, J.H. Williams III, and more to be revealed in the weeks and months ahead.
Founded by M.C. “Max” Gaines – often cited as one of the original creators of the comic book format – as “Educational Comics” in 1944, EC spearheaded a watershed evolution in the craft, quality, and power of the comics medium under Max’s son, William M. Gaines, following the elder Gaines’ sudden death in 1947. Rechristening his father’s creation as “Entertaining Comics,” publisher, editor, and writer William M. Gaines recruited one of the most legendary creative stables in the history of the comics medium – including future Eisner Hall of Fame inductees Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, Al Feldstein, Frank Frazetta, Bernard Krigstein, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Marie Severin, Al Williamson, Wally Wood, and many more – to oversee the creation of a revolutionary slate of new series that would soon grow to includeTales From the Crypt, Mad Magazine, Weird Sience, Two-Fist Tales, and more.
Widely celebrated for fearlessly confrontational stories that were as creatively innovative as they were culturally subversive – confronting racial and gender inequality, militarism, and environmental degradation in ways that would anticipate both the burgeoning counterculture and Civil Rights movements – EC’s urge to probe the darkness lurking beyond the edges of post-war America through tales of horror, science fiction, humor, and war earned the company millions of readers … and established a new high watermark for one of the first definitively American artforms: the comic book.
However, EC’s reign at the forefront of the American comic book industry – a period during which it eclipsed Marvel, DC, and Archie with sales of 10 million comics per year – would come crashing down in 1954 as an anti-comics moral panic swept America, inspiring book burnings, police surveillance, and a Congressional investigation that would see William M. Gaines’ testimony broadcast live in households across the country. This pro-censorship movement soon culminated in the creation of the Comics Code Authority, a sanitizing regulatory group whose guidelines were specifically tailored to remove EC’s comics from newsstands. EC’s final comics – until now – were published in 1956, and the hugely popular MAD was re-formatted as a magazine to escape Code scrutiny. Even so, the untimely death of EC could not erase the company’s far-reaching impact, having already inspired a young generation of readers – including John Carpenter, Guillermo del Toro, Matt Groening, James Gunn, George Lucas, Stephen King, George R.R. Martin, The Ramones, George Romero, Steven Spielberg, and hundreds more – who have cited EC’s iconoclastic brand of storytelling as a deep and primordial influence.
Written by ZAC THOMPSON Art by DANIEL IRIZARRI Cover A by DANIEL IRIZARRI Cover B by DUSTIN WEAVER Cover C by JAMES STOKOE Cover D by VLAD LEGOSTAEV Full art variant (1:20) by JAMES STOKOE Full art variant (1:30) by DUSTIN WEAVER ON SALE FEBRUARY 7, 2024 | $4.99 | 32 pgs | FC
The 21st century sucks hard, but it’s made somewhat tolerable by the latest and greatest media innovations. Enter the Dreamwave: the first gaming console played entirely while you sleep. The obsession of millions around the globe, it’s also the one point of solace for four friends known as the “Cemetery Kids,” who spend their nights roaming the endless maps of the most brutal horror game ever created as they seek to dethrone the “King of Sleep”—the Dreamwave’s biggest, baddest, and most mysterious boss.
Which was fun . . . until one of them doesn’t wake up and finds their consciousness locked inside a horror game that is anything but imaginary. Now, the three remaining Cemetery Kids must navigate a forbidden landscape to rescue their friend—and pray that the secret lurking at its center doesn’t follow them home.
