Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness, in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror, David Lapham and David Hine! In high school, Edmund earned his nickname 'Yellow Belly' by running away and hiding whenever confronted by conflicts or fears. But when the Crossed infection ignites at a local circus, perhaps it's that very same cowardice that will save him in the end! Meanwhile, a group of self-centered and hedonistic college kids head to a writer's retreat to explore their inner selves... but end up surrounded by berserk killers. What depths will they sink to in order to survive? This volume collects Crossed: Badlands #10 - 18.
Journey back to the earliest days of the Crossed outbreak, when an outbreak of viral insanity first plunged an unsuspecting world into darkness, in two tales scribed by the masters of modern horror, David Lapham and David Hine! In high school, Edmund earned his nickname 'Yellow Belly' by running away and hiding whenever confronted by conflicts or fears. But when the Crossed infection ignites at a local circus, perhaps it's that very same cowardice that will save him in the end! Meanwhile, a group of self-centered and hedonistic college kids head to a writer's retreat to explore their inner selves... but end up surrounded by berserk killers. What depths will they sink to in order to survive? This volume collects Crossed: Badlands #10 - 18.
(W) David Lapham (A) Francisco Manna (CA) Gabriel Andrade
Cover: Gabriel Andrade Writer: David Lapham Art: Francisco Manna Garth Ennis' world of Crossed has become the pinnacle of survival horror in fiction. David Lapham (Stray Bullets) returns to Crossed with a crime story told both before and after the Crossed outbreak! A father is pushed to the brink when his family is brutally tortured and killed. With only revenge to keep him going, he becomes a monster himself with only one purpose, to find the man that did this and make him suffer more than anyone has before. But then C-Day happened and the world changed. Now a mystery to solve becomes one man's singular obsession to cross a sea of maniacs and destroy a monster no matter the cost. There is no help and there is no hope. There is only the Crossed. This volume collects issues #62 - 70 of the ongoing Crossed: Badlands series.
(W) David Lapham (A) Edgar Salazar, Keith Champagne (CA) Juan Ferreyra
A vampiric abomination seeks to destroy the monster that sired him. Born as a mistake of a powerful vampire known as the Master and raised in the brutal gladiatorial arenas of ancient Rome, Mr. Quinlan must survive long enough to carry out his mission-but then his target begins hunting him. Collects issues #1-#5 of the miniseries.
(W) David Lapham (A) Mike Huddleston (CA) E.M. Gist
It has been two years since the Master's plan succeeded and a near apocalypse coated the world in eternal darkness. Now able to roam freely, the Master's legion of vampires rule the world-a horrifying police state where humans are harvested for blood. As humanity despairs, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and an unlikely team of heroes continue their fight against extinction, hoping to unlock the secret to the Master's demise. Collects The Strain: The Night Eternal #1-#6.
(W) David Lapham (A) Mike Huddleston (CA) E.M. Gist
The rebels' victory at Camp Liberty has emboldened their efforts against the Master's vampire army, but a traitor in their ranks leaves an opening for the Master to strike back even harder. The fate of humanity ultimately resides with one man. Will Dr. Ephraim Goodweather finally snap and make a deal to see his son? Or will he use some newfound information to destroy the Master once and for all? Collects The Strain: The Night Eternal #7-#12.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Dark and twisted, funny and heartbreaking, intimate and epic-SUNSHINE & ROSES tells the story of a boy and a girl, how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS, and with SUNSHINE & ROSES, the uncompromising EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID & MARIA LAPHAM take the series to a new high. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #1-8.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
What would you do for love? How far would you go for revenge? 'SUNSHINE & ROSES' tells the story of a boy and a girl: how they fell in love and hatched a scheme to blow up the Baltimore underworld. There is no crime book remotely like STRAY BULLETS and with 'SUNSHINE & ROSES,' the uncompromising, Eisner Award-winning team of DAVID AND MARIA LAPHAM craft a heist story like you never seen. Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #9-16.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
The getaway is always the trickiest part of any heist. It gets even trickier when the one place you go to hide and the one person you're counting on hiding you is just about the worst place and worst person you could have ever picked. Is it self-sabotage or a secret plan of revenge? Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #17-24
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Steal the money and drugs-check. Get gone-check. It was supposed to be all over. These were supposed to be the good times-the days of sunshine and roses. So why don't they feel that way? Collects STRAY BULLETS: SUNSHINE & ROSES #25-32.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Somewhere out West is a town no one knows about-a desert town-whose inhabitants wait for the day a great earthquake will bring them beachfront property. Here, three desperate friends on the run from the Mob and a young runaway Virginia Applejack will try to escape the nightmares of their pasts. They'll band together to battle the demons that threaten to destroy them from within while taking on a corrupt town full of sex, drugs, and inbreeding. Eventually, they'll be forced to make horrifying choices when their dark pasts finally catch up with them....
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Beth and Virginia have relocated to Los Angeles where things only appear more normal... Take a ringside seat for these brutal tales of twisted emotion that will knock you to the mat and have you seeing stars... Collects STRAY BULLETS #15-22
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
The EISNER AWARD-WINNING team of DAVID and MARIA LAPHAM bring you the next volume in the STRAY BULLETS TRADE PAPERBACK COLLECTION. STRAY BULLETS: DARK DAYS tells the story of Beth and Virginias time in Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Virginia's growing relationship with the young boy Bobby, and the horrible kidnapping that rips apart all of their lives. A gut-wrenching noir thriller of small joys, big horrors, and the crushing weight of guilt... Collects STRAY BULLETS #23-30 NEW STORY ARC Major Plot Point: The defining moment in the lives of STRAY BULLETS two major characters, Beth and Virginia.
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
Runaway Virginia returns home to the very unloving arms of her widowed mother. An outcast at home and at school, no one can imagine just how far she'll go to protect herself and her new friend, Leon. Collects STRAY BULLETS #31-41
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
A little boy learns too late that running your mouth can get you run over. A young babysitter gets in way over her head when she's hired tos it by a dangerous man with a dangerous request. A young couple's hopeful visit to the city turns to anything but when they step into the middle of a mob turf war and watch more than just friends die. And a young man just trying to help his hustler cousin out of a bad spot instead becomes the ultimate killer. These are only some of the eight stories comprising KILLERS, the newest arc in the ongoing world of STRAY BULLETS. Each story stands on its own but collectively they tell the twisted story of two teens -- Virginia and Eli -- both scarred by tragic childhood intersections with the Baltimore underworld, drawn together in the sleepy seaside town of Sandcastle, unable to escape their dark pasts....