DARK HORSE FOR DECEMBER 2023
ASSASSINS APPRENTICE II (L.S. OF 6)
(W) Jody Houser, Robin Hobb (A) Ryan Kelly (CA) Anna Steinbauer Assassin's Apprentice starts its second chapter here! Spring comes to the Six Duchies, and with it, the fearsome menace of the Red-Ship Raiders. As the danger creeps ever closer to Buckkeep, Fitz is given his first true mission from Chade, to infiltrate the estate of a nobleman and look for any signs of treason. But an assassin's job is far from simple, and the fate of the realm may depend on if Fitz can take a life, or spare one instead. In Shops: Dec 13, 2023 SRP: $3.99
BOREALIS (L.S. OF 3)
(W) Mark Verheiden, Aaron Douglas (A/CA) Cliff Richards From screenwriter Mark Verheiden (The Mask, Swamp Thing), writer/actor Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica, Hemlock Grove), and artist Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Justice League) comes Borealis, a bone-chilling supernatural thriller! Winter nights last months, temperatures can hit seventy below, alcohol is illegal... and something mysterious is emerging on the remote ice. Welcome to the isolated Qinu, Alaska and a world of bad memories for State Trooper Silaluk "Sil" Osha. After thirteen years away from Qinu, Sil is pulled back to investigate a series of brutal murders, only to face a dark past... and her frightening connection to deadly legends.In Shops: Dec 20, 2023 SRP: $3.99
HELLBOY WINTER SPECIAL YULE CAT (ONE-SHOT)
(W) Matt Smith (A/CA) Matt Smith Hellboy travels to Reykjavik, where children are disappearing and a giant beast has been spotted. Could it be the infamous Yule Cat of Icelandic lore? Fan-favorite Hellboy artist Matt Smith writes and draws this chilling wintery one-shot! In Shops: Dec 06, 2023 SRP: $3.99
MASTERPIECE (L.S. OF 6)
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Alex Maleev From the Eisner award-winning creators behind Daredevil and Scarlet comes an all-new crime comic epic! Emma is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. The suavest, most liked criminals ever. The criminal's criminal. The ones that wrote the rulebook. There are movies about them starring the biggest movie stars. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time, and they took the world's most famous billionaire for a cool billion... before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again. Ghosts. Zero Preston is the greedy billionaire her parents brilliantly ripped off before they disappeared. He has been looking for payback for years. He finds Emma... who clearly does not have his money. Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy. This "Master of the Universe" will have his satisfaction. Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents' old associates to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time. Among the cast of characters comes the return of the legendary criminal The Paragon. A Robin Hood for our times. This exquisitely well-dressed, long con master criminal returns to his calling when faced with the truth behind the sinister corporate forces of Zero. In Shops: Dec 13, 2023 SRP: $3.99
TIME TRAVELER TALES (L.S. OF 5)
(W) Dave Scheidt (A) Kicking Shoes (CA) Wendi Chen Oliver has a problem-a time travel problem. Some mysterious force keeps throwing him through time, and this time he's in the Wild West, rescuing... circus animals? But as crazy as that is, it's only the beginning of his adventure. Content creator and internet superstar Karl Jacobs debuts his new all-ages comics series, inspired his popular Minecraft stories on Tales from the SMP, created in collaboration with writer David Scheidt, artists Kicking Shoes, and letterer Joamette Gil. In Shops: Dec 06, 2023 SRP: $3.99
