With two all-original 20-page stories; one from writer Cullen Bunn with art by Andrea Mutti and the other from Mark London with art by Luisa Russo, Mad Cave?s first ever horror anthology uses the Grimm Fairy Tales as inspiration. In addition to industry stars like Christopher Sebela, Nadia Shammas, and Stephanie Phillips, this haunting anthology will feature over ten terrifying tales including three from the winners of Mad Cave?s 2020 talent search.

(W) Helen Mullane (A/CA) Tula Lotay Celebrated filmmaker Helen Mullane teams up with superstar artist Tula Lotay for sex, drugs, and rock and roll on the Sunset Strip! On a wild night out at the Fox Club, the coolest, hottest, and wildest girls on (or off) the Strip meet the edgiest up-and-coming band in town, and sparks fly. The Moon Show?s stardom is about to rise as they celebrate getting signed to the legendary Asmodeus Records. As the story unfolds, the excited groupies head on tour with the band ? living the dream ? but their tuned-in and dropped-out idyll is about to unravel. Something dark is pulling the strings, and the girls are about to discover the true cost of rock and roll.

(W) Justin Jordan (A/CA) Patrick Piazzalunga Huck and Marley help people for money. Well, in theory anyway... For some reason, their help always seems to involve massive amounts of property damage, a somehow guaranteed collision with the supernatural and, if Marley has his way, a huge body count. They?re the Gunpowder Prophets, and a simple job rescuing a girl from a backwoods cult turns weird when the super groovy leader's supernatural powers turn out to be very, very real. It?s seventies style horror mixed with grindhouse action in Gunpowder Prophets. Gonzo over the top action horror from Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode), Patrick Piazzalunga (Monsters are my Business), Roman Stevens, and Taylor Esposito.

(W) Cullen Bunn (A/CA) Joe Bocardo Six strangers, all broken and burdened, find themselves at the funeral for the father they never knew. Their father sold their souls to Hell on the days they were born. They are now destined to serve demonic masters in spreading chaos and misery. Jamison Kreel is dead. Six of his children from six mothers are attending the funeral of a father they never met. Each of the children possesses a different infernal power. These powers, though, come at a terrible price...a price Jamison Kreel has placed upon the heads of his offspring. And the demonic debtors have come to collect.

(W/A/CA) Toril Orlesky In the red days of the West, centaurs and humans coexist. The desolation of the American West, burning bridges, true love, and ancient mythologies--find all of this and more in the pages of Hotblood! Vol.1: The Land of Promise, a re-imagining of the popular webcomic! The year is 1871 and the centaur Evander Rook finds himself at rock bottom, working for would-be robber baron Asa Langley--a human! As the unlikely pair get closer, romance and conspiracy run wild and Rook finds himself caught up in Asa’s ambitions as they are both forced to face the ghosts of their interwoven pasts.

(W) Kodachi Ukyou (A/CA) Ejiri Tatsuma Against all odds, wedding bells are on the horizon for Joji and Rin! Now, Rin is faced with the choice to carry out the evil mission given to her by Z ? A mission which could destroy their wedded bliss forever! Will Tekkaman choose his love or justice? Will Rin?s love for Joji conquer all? Continue the fight with Tatsunoko Productions? classic heroes in Infini-T Force Vol. 7, previously unreleased in English and available for the first time from Nakama Press!

(W) Kodachi Ukyou (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Casshan?s most ruthless foe, the Buraiking Boss, has unmasked their greatest threat?none other than Emi?s own father, Kazumichi Kaido. With her world turned upside down, Emi is torn between family loyalty and the fate of humanity. As dark secrets rise to the surface, she must choose: stand by her father... or stand against him. And this time, the decision could change everything.

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri It all began when high school student Emi Kaido received a mysterious, wish-granting pencil. With her life on the line, Emi uses the pencil to call upon heroes for protection! Gatchaman! Tekkaman! Casshan! Polimar! These defenders of justice cross space and time to help Emi weave the greatest tale of all time!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Gatchaman! Polimar! Casshan! Tekkaman! By the unexplained power of one girl’s pencil, four heroes have been brought together to stand for justice! But where light shines, darkness is sure to follow. Prepare to encounter… Shadow Polimar!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Gatchaman! Tekkaman! Casshan! Polimar! The four heroes have begun to get used to their new home, but people are now disappearing one by one from Shibuya... including the heroes themselves! As evil looms near, will anyone remain to oppose it?

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Para Bellum’s plan has the world careening towards annihilation, but Gatchaman, Tekkaman, Casshan, and Polimar unite to confront this great evil! Time is running out, and it’s now that the heroes must prove their worth!

(W) Ukyo Kodachi (A/CA) Tatsuma Ejiri Casshan's ultimate foe is back! Casshan must face his nemesis, Buraiking Boss, who reveals that there's even more to this dimensional tangle than the heroes previously imagined--the evil wasn't defeated with Para Bellum! In fact, the fight may be just getting started...

(W) Ryan Parrott (A) Letizia Cadonici (CA) Jorge Corona Sarah Stern In the summer of 1996, Sutton Reed had it all. A popular teenage girl with amazing friends, a loving family, and a bright future. But it all came crashing down over one mysterious weekend that saw her friends brutally murdered and left Sutton as the sole survivor of the legendary Riverton Massacre. Now, three decades later, the death and disappearance of two local teens strike the Riverton community again, forcing Sutton, now a divorced single mother, to face the truth she tried so desperately to hide. Because to catch one killer, she'll have to dig up the real monster she buried away all those years ago.

(W) Stephen Desberg, Dan Panosian (A/CA) Dan Panosian John Tiffany is one of the best bounty hunters in the world. Given his precarious line of work, he has found that he can only truly trust four people: Pastor Lovejoy, an unorthodox priest; Wan Chao, an underworld geek; Dorothy, his conservative teammate; and Magdalena, a sex worker he has foolishly fallen in love with. But it seems that one of them has turned against him and now he?s the one with a bounty on his head. It's a race against time as he tries to survive being a high-priced target and find out which of his confidantes is the traitor.

(W) Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (A) Martina Niosi (CA) Skylar Patridge To control the population explosion that nearly crippled the city, New York has instituted Kill Train, a randomized, extermination program where designated subway trains are picked at random, and all the passengers are slaughtered by the end of the line. In this not-so-distant future, we meet Vanessa, a struggling single mom in the midst of a nervous breakdown, who discovers that she, herself, is on a Kill Train. Now, for once in her life and with everything to prove, Vanessa decides she's not going down without a fight.

(W) David Hazan (A/CA) Sami Kivela In Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936, Howard Berkowicz, the bookkeeper for the Jewish Mob finds himself on the wrong end of an enforcer’s gun when he tries to spur the Kosher Mafia into action against the rising tide of domestic Nazism in the German American Bund.

(W/A/CA) Cassio Ribeiro Rita, Carlos, and Lucas were merely friends until a pivotal moment changed everything: they photographed what many in the small town of Caminho da Anta believed to be an alien. Years later, Rita, now thriving as a professional photographer, returns to discover the truth behind that fateful day and its effects on their lives and the community. A troubled photographer, a fame-seeking UFO enthusiast, and a loyal cult member are all in pursuit of answers, but what they find could be more extraordinary than they ever anticipated.

(W) Elliot Sperl, Amit Tishler (A) Rui Silveira (CA) Zach Howard With an alcoholic father and a hole in her wallet, Danielle Pryer’s life in the rustic town of Bleakwood goes from bad to worse when her long-lost brother, Bruce, returns from the Vietnam War. While Bruce is being plagued by a mysterious and monstrous mutation, he is also being hunted by an incompetent team of paranormal misfits, which leads to Bleakwood quickly becoming ground zero of a supernatural battle that forces Danielle to choose between everything she holds dear and the fate of the world as a whole.

(W/A/CA) Rubine When Suzy, a high school student, mysteriously vanishes, conspiracy-obsessed teen RJ Nguyen is determined to uncover the truth. But things in Cravenwood are far from normal. As RJ digs into Suzy?s disappearance, she stumbles upon the unsettling rise of Knock Knock, a wildly popular social app that seems to be taking over the town. Oh, and did we mention the sudden appearance of grotesque, many-eyed monsters lurking in the shadows? With QR codes embedded throughout the series, you can dive deeper into Cravenwood?s eerie lore by stalking the character?s social media and exploring secret documents and hidden clues. Are you ready to uncover the secrets of Cravenwood?

(W) Paul Tobin (A/CA) Arjuna Susini Something is wrong in the deep forests of Broke Tree Valley. Something deadly. Something mammoth. The legends speak of something larger than human comprehension?A monstrous phantom that disappears for decades at a time. Now, it?s back, and things are about to go Very Bad if four people?Olivia, Jess, Kokoro, and Mason, scientists who have come to the small city of Kasbro to investigate a bizarre series of seismic activities in this heavily forested valley?can?t put the Mammoth to rest. One real problem with this is?Olivia?s dead.

(W) Lee Loughridge (A/CA) Mack Chater When Paul Rinaldi sleeps, he sees things. But after his precarious career as a small-town clairvoyant dissolves under claims of fraud, he becomes the laughingstock of the small town of Ft. Arlington, VA. The fact is, Rinaldi is wildly gifted, only furthering his frustrations as a middle-aged mystic. But a string of missing persons cases, coupled with terrifying visions, gives Rinaldi new purpose. Rinaldi teams up with the town's rookie detective, Abigail Dahlin, to solve the cases using his psychic abilities. Together they will get to the bottom of things or die trying!

(W) Tim Daniel, David DB Andry (A/CA) Marco Finnegan 1956. Kootenai National Forest, Montana. When smokejumper Nathan Garrett perishes in a raging wildfire, his surviving family's hopes and happiness turn to ashes. One year following her husband Nathan's death, wife, and mother of two, Jolene Garrett, takes her crumbling family to the Morning Star lookout seeking solace through closure--to scatter her husband's remains. But something far beyond the reach of their wildest imaginings awaits the Garrett family in the Montana wilderness--something more powerful than their anguish and torment. Something that transcends space and time. No telephones. No electricity. No transportation. No escape.

(W/A/CA) Wah Kee This semi-autobiographical story follows Chung Chuen Ming, a dedicated assistant in the comics industry who aspires to create his own manhua. Determined to pursue his dream, he quits his assistant job to focus on his personal project. Tragically, just before completing his debut work, Chuen Ming succumbed to a sudden illness. However, his story doesn't end there; his spirit lingers, driven by the unfinished dream. Throughout his journey, he encounters challenges that compel him to collaborate with a fellow novice artist, Cheung Shan, leading to a creative and emotionally significant partnership.

(W) Albert Ng (A/CA) Jerry Cho After a catastrophic accident, the souls of the dead find themselves in a liminal predicament that straddles life and death. Guided by the maiden messengers, they must face life's judgment. The plaintiff can channel his resentment into a murderous power, while the defendant can trade his own soul for a chance at life by destroying others? souls. They embark on a brutal journey of imbuing their souls with power and deciding how to wield it in order to survive.

(W) Albert Ng (A/CA) Jerry Cho The Naraka Warrior has defied the laws of the liminal area between life and death, leaving the blood of his accusers on his hands and the realm's maiden messengers concerned by his rebellion. Moreover, his actions have drawn the attention of something far more powerful. In the face of these relentless trials, he will have to summon all of his strength to carve a bloody path back to the world of the living... or be lost in the beyond forever! The battle is far from over.

(W) David Hazan (A/CA) Shane Connery Volk

(W/A/CA) Matthew Dow Smith Autumn Ackerman grew up believing in fairy tales and magic, but now she?s eighteen and facing reality: A future stuck behind the counter of her small town?s coffee shop. Is this really all there is to life? But then, suddenly, Autumn?s childhood imaginary friend re-appears, and her entire boring world is turned upside-down. Autumn secretly belongs to the strange world of the Night Folk?a society of magical creatures like the ones from the stories she used to believe in. But this magical world is also a dangerous one. Now, Autumn must protect her loved ones from the frightening Mr. Balloon long enough to untangle the mystery tying the Night Folk to her own past.

(W) John Lees (A/CA) Sally Cantirino ORLA! is a romcom/creature feature mash-up about a lonely woman struggling to navigate the Seattle singles scene while sometimes turning into a man-eating monster. Orla Bard is an antique restorer, romance novel enjoyer and keen birder who has a secret. She is afflicted with The Ick, a monstrous entity dwelling inside her, who violently emerges whenever Orla feels too stressed, angry or afraid. She is unable to rid herself of this curse, and The Ick needs to feed, and so Orla has decided to use her powers to help other women by removing the worst men from the dating pool. But when she finally meets a guy she actually likes, and finally has a chance at a love story of her own, will she be able to keep her inner monster under control?

(W) Jay Sandlin (A) Antonello Cosentino (CA) Antonello Consentino Step Over the Ropes and into 1990s wrestling. Set in a fictional world, Over the Ropes dives into sports entertainment's biggest era. A young high-flyer named Jason Lynn goes off-script in a match to win the world title and sets the southern territory on fire as the face-painted wrestler, Phoenix. Jason's battles between the ropes are only outperformed by his struggles outside the ring. First dates. Crooked promoters. Cage matches. Factions and families. No matter what problems smack him with a steel chair, Collects issues #1-5.

(W) Peter Milligan (A) Val Rodrigues (CA) Nick Marinkovich 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. The Pale Knight is a horrifying descent into a phantasmagorical Hell.

(W) Jimmy Palmiotti (A) Juan Santacruz (CA) Dave Johnson Mad Cave's best-selling creator-owned series is collected into a beautiful hardcover edition, with an all-new cover by Dave Johnson! Guaranteed to unleash the fizz in your pop! Imagine a world where two dominant and competing cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former Siamese twins who have been separated and now harbor such intense hatred for each other that they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage experts to interfere with one another daily. This is the story of brotherly love gone awry and the people they recruit to do their dirty work. Collected for the first time in a stunning hardcover format, with an all-new cover by Dave Johnson!

(W) Jimmy Palmiotti, Dave Johnson (A) Juan Santacruz (CA) Dave Johnson Imagine a world where the two dominant and competing Cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former conjoined twins who are now separated and have grown to hate each other so much they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage personnel to meddle with each other on a daily basis. This is the story about brotherly love run afoul, and the people they enlist to do their dirty work. Collected for the first time, this explosive soda story is guaranteed to unleash the fizz in your pop!

(W) Mark Russell (A) Nuno Plati (CA) Francesco Tomaselli Rex Racer was burned, betrayed, and left for dead?but he came back as Racer X, a masked vigilante on a mission to take down the corrupt racing syndicates from the inside. As he protects his brother Speed from the shadows, he battles deadly rivals, rigged races, and his own past. With every race, he inches closer to the vengeance he seeks, using his skills to level the playing field for those who race with honor. But when returning home risks the lives of those he loves, Rex must choose between family and the fight. From award-winning writer Mark Russell (Snagglepuss, Vanishing Point) and fan-favorite artist Nuno Plati (The Amazing Spider-Man) comes a story of a man out for revenge and redemption. Collects issues 1-4 and the Free Comic Book Day short story.

(W) Ray Fawkes (A) Antonio Fuso (CA) Dan Panosian To catch a rampaging serial killer in Soviet era Leningrad, two detectives must match wits with the murderer while battling the oppressive rules of their own police force and a greater, hidden enemy.

(W) Joel Meadows (A) Andy Bennett (CA) Laurence Campbell John Charles Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci-fi adventure featuring The World?s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before! When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England?s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status quo. But can he defeat the machinations of the man at the rudder of the country? Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders: The Gene Genie is perfect for fans of Michael Moorcock (Elric, Jerry Cornelius) and Bryan Talbot (The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright, Grandville). Winning a Comic Scene award for Best Crowdfunder in 2025, it has already garnered quite a following since its debut in 2020 as a short comic story in the pages of Tripwire. This complete collection features a brand new introduction by award-winning writer JM DeMatteis (Moonshadow, Spider-Man: Kraven?s Last Hunt), and a brand new wraparound cover by Eisner a

After the incidents of Show?s End Vol. 1, what?s left of Daxton Rickles? Circus is now performing on street corners to get by, but a series of mysterious murders surrounding our troop forces them to head south for safety in a town operated and occupied by circus performers. However, the town is no longer what it once was. It is now ruled by a young, charismatic cult figure named Leviticus ?Miss Levy? Jones, who believes those born ?deformed? are the only ones truly perfect in the eyes of the creator. The longer the group stays, the more sinister the town is revealed to be. Meanwhile, a forgotten figure from Loralye?s past lurks in the distance and is coming to reveal her true path.

(W) Justin Richards (A/CA) Val Halvorson Riley, a horror-obsessed podcaster with a slasher villain fixation, is seeking a new career path: Helping her favorite legendary slasher, The Hopton Valley Killer, regain their long-lost notoriety while learning the ropes herself. Collects The Slasher?s Apprentice #1 - 5

(W) Francesco Barilli (A/CA) Alessandro Ranghiasci Athens, 399 BC. In what may be remembered as the first trial for crimes of opinion, Socrates is sentenced to death. Accused of corrupting youth with atheistic doctrines, the philosopher's line of defense is uncompromising and defiant. He is thus sentenced to drink hemlock by an even larger majority of jurors, and once in prison, awaiting execution, he refuses to flee lest he violate those laws to which he has always been devoted. Socrates was not only one of the best known and most influential philosophers in human history, but also the first martyr for his own ideas. His trial tells how the greatest democracy of the time could have sentenced the best of its citizens to death.

(W) Thomas E. Sniegoski, Jeannine Acheson (A) Valeria Burzo (CA) Michael Sta Maria Amarantha is the last of her race, an ancient species that has lived among us for millennia, feeding on the life energies of humanity. Now enjoying a peaceful existence in a retirement community, she continues to consume just enough to survive. But Amarantha has made enemies throughout her long life and an ancient foe thought long defeated has returned and is out for blood, while a newer threat seeks to capture her for their own nefarious purposes! Now Amarantha must do everything in her power to vanquish her enemies and protect the life she has made for herself.

(W) Rick Quinn (A/CA) Dave Chisholm Melody Parker is losing her mind. She’s living on the streets of Seattle during the WTO protests of 1999. She is seeing things. Androids. Aliens. Pigs in high fashion. And a creature named Echo—one of the Sustained: elemental beings with the power to alter reality through music. She invites Melody to join her as she brings about the end of the world. As Melody tries to escape this strange woman, suppressed memories from across vast spans of time flood into her awareness, bringing her very identity into question. You don't want to miss this stunning new release from writer Rick Quinn and music-comic-specialist Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound).