Image Comics Summer 2023 Catalog
Image Comics recently released the Image Comics Summer 2023 Catalog. This provides a look at many of the collected editions that will be released over the course of the several months in 2023.
To simplify what to expect, the following list provides details for each upcoming collection. It contains the contents, release date, and solicitation overview for each new book. This list also contains a link to a store page for preorders.
- 3 Keys TP
- Collects 3 Keys #1-5.
- Release Date: May 2, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Writer/artist David Messina (Han Solo) invites you to explore the mysterious world of 3Keys. Did the inhabitants of another dimension flee into our reality in order to save themselves from the terrible wrath of the Great Old Ones… or to help prepare us for a final, devastating invasion?
- And what if humanity’s only chances against these Great Old Ones are an impetuous, mischievous young woman and her sardonic, furry and surprisingly violent mentor? All questions are asked and answered in this epic, apocalyptic adventure!
- The Department of Truth: The Complete Conspiracy Deluxe Hardcover, Book 1 HC
- Collects The Department of Truth #1-17.
- Release Date: May 2, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn’t prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true: the JFK Assassination, Flat Earth Theory, Bigfoot, Mothman, and so much worse. One organization has been covering them up for generations, controlling the narrative for what they claim is the greater good.
- What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth—and will learning it destroy Cole’s life from the inside out?
- The first three arcs of the critically acclaimed series by Eisner Award-winning writer JAMES TYNION IV (Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake) and ART MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy) are collected here for the first time in deluxe hardcover format. Experience…THE COMPLETE CONSPIRACY.
- The Gods on Sunday Morning HC
- Collects the graphic novel.
- Release Date: May 2, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Immortality isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Meet Manny, an ancient, near-forgotten god living in a crummy motel in L.A. It’s not much of a life, for him or the other forgotten gods he meets for breakfast every Sunday. But something’s brewing, something that will change the gods’ destiny forever…or end it.
- The award-winning ASTRO CITY creative team brings you their first original graphic novel, a contemporary fantasy that does for mythology what ASTRO CITY does for superheroes.
- The Singularity TP
- Contents not currently listed.
- Release Date: May 2, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- How much loss can one soul endure?
- Blue Eyes can’t stop being reborn. He tumbles from life to life, from one unthinkably strange universe to the next – the only constant being that, one way or another, everything that he learns to love is lost. But when Blue Eyes finally catches up to a mysterious figure he’s seen recurring throughout his lives, he realizes he might just have a chance to escape his cursed immortality – or, at very least, exact revenge for it.
- Blood Stained Teeth, Volume 2: Drip Feed TP
- Collects Blood Stained Teeth #6-10.
- Release Date: May 9, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- For decades, Atticus Sloane has been turning humans into Vampires known as Sips. Now, The First Borns Council, a secret cabal of Billionaire vampires have issued Atticus a threat, kill all his Sips or the Council will kill him.
- But what does their plan have to do with Beverly Phelps–a Doctor-turned-Vampire–who, as Atticus hunts his Sips, is hunting members of the First Born Council?
- Continuing the hit new Vamp-noir book Blood Stained Teeth, from Christian Ward (Invisible Kingdom, ODY-C, Machine Gun Wizards) and Patric Reynolds (The Mask, Nita Hawkes Nightmare Blog) in a world where blood isn’t the only thing Vampires crave.
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- Hack/Slash Deluxe, Volume 3 HC
- Collects issues #18-34 of the Hack/Slash ongoing series as well as the award-winning Entry Wound one-shot.
- Release Date: May 9, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- In almost every slasher movie, there’s one girl who makes it all the way to the end. She’s the survivor… the final girl. Meet Cassie Hack, the lone survivor of an attack by the vicious slasher known as the Lunch Lady. Now Cassie and her monstrous partner Vlad travel the country, hunting down and killing other slashers before they can leave a trail of blood and terror.
- This HACK/SLASH DELUXE edition collects issues #18-34 of the Hack/Slash ongoing series as well as the award-winning ENTRY WOUND one-shot, and features the debut of fan-favorite characters Cat Curio and Samhain. Also includes a brand new bonus story by Tim Seeley!
- Haunthology TP
- Collects a selection of short horror stories.
- Release Date: May 9, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- From fan favorite creator Jeremy Haun (The Beauty, The Realm, The Red Mother, The Approach) comes a dread-inducing collection of 28 tales of terror in, Haunthology. This hair-raising tome of short stories and vignettes features an introduction by Shirley Jackson Award winning author Nathan Ballingrud.
- From creatures of the night…to even more terrifying creatures of the day, readers were first introduced to Haunthology’s nightmarish mindscapes through a successful Kickstarter campaign. Whether exploring a claustrophobic old house full of nefarious entities or exploring the heavy thoughts one has during the end of the world, this very personal project was completely written and drawn during the COVID shutdowns.
- The Least We Can Do TP
- Collects The Least We Can Do #1-6.
- Release Date: May 9, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Mysterious magical power arises from a world nearly destroyed by war. A young woman fights for her ideas of revolution and to build a new society from the debris. Realizing that she can’t do it alone, she must prove her worth to the Eclipse Rebels to join them against the dreadful Eden Army.
- A story of discovering what is right and what love means in a militarily occupied and socially oppressed United Kingdom.
- Antioch TP
- Collects Antioch #1-4.
- Release Date: May 16, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- A king from a lost kingdom has a message for the modern world: duck! After years of waging war on a polluting oil corp, Antioch decides it’s time to prove a point. He turns himself in, prepared to expose the company in court. But prison is dangerous and Antioch may not live to speak the truth.
- Guest-starring Frontiersman!
- Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers HC
- Collects Bone Orchard Mythos: Ten Thousand Black Feathers #1-5.
- Release Date: May 16, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- From the acclaimed creative team behind GIDEON FALLS, PRIMORDIAL, and THE PASSAGEWAY comes a new story in the bold and ambitious shared horror universe of THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS. Trish and Jackie are best friends and avid gamers. But when the line between reality and their fantasy world is blurred by an evil darkness, can they be the heroes of their own story? TEN THOUSAND BLACK FEATHERS is the newest entry into THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS from LEMIRE & SORRENTINO! A universe that features self-contained graphic novels and limited series about all the horrors waiting to be discovered within the Bone Orchard.
- WHAT IS THE BONE ORCHARD MYTHOS?
- The Bone Orchard Mythos is a shared horror universe of titles (all different formats) by bestselling duo Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino.
- Flawed Volume 1 TP
- Collects Flawed #1-6.
- Release Date: May 23, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Welcome to the city of Setham. The home of Gem Ezz, a psychiatrist who plays god with her patients. By day she listens to their problems. By night she removes the evil in their lives with brutal and sometimes deadly force. When she crosses a sect of twisted billionaires she is in for the fight of her life. She has to bring down the sect and face the trauma of her violent past.
- Gunslinger Spawn, Volume 2 TP
- Collects Gunslinger Spawn issues #7-12.
- Release Date: May 23, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Dealing with the aftermath of the savage battle against the new Clown and Dakota, Gunslinger finds himself on the run yet again. He comes to terms with his new life in the present day, as revelations from his past will threaten to destroy his future.
- Ava’s Demon, Book 1: Reborn TP
- Collects Chapter One to Chapter Six of the webcomic.
- Release Date: May 30, 2023
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- A PACT IS MADE…
- When a young, shy girl named Ava discovers that the demon who haunts her is actually the spirit of an ancient alien queen named Wrathia, the two form a powerful pact—in exchange for a better life, Ava must help Wrathia seek revenge against TITAN, the god-like being who destroyed her empire.
- To aid Ava against TITAN, she must first assemble Wrathia’s most trusted warriors and the lifeforms they haunt. The only problem is, she doesn’t know what they look like, or where to find them.
- Joining her on her mission is Maggie, Ava’s former best friend and fellow refugee, Odin, a brooding young man with a mysterious past, and Gil, a dedicated follower of TITAN. And unbeknownst to Ava, all three of them are hiding their own inner demons…looks Wrathia’s army might be closer than she thinks.
- Hitomi TP
- Collects Hitomi #1-5.
- Release Date: May 30, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- In Feudal-era Japan, a drifter with no prospects begins training in secret under Yasuke, a once-famous and now-disgraced warrior, as she struggles to find her place in a society entrenched in discrimination and violence.
- Combining the historical sweep and elegance of Kurosawa with the visceral action of Tarantino, this saga follows the trials and tribulations of a young female warrior who travels the country-side unendingly working to gain the rank of Samurai, a title no man, monster, or myth can give to her, but one that she will have to take.
- For fans of The Witcher, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, Lone Wolf and Cub, Usagi Yojimbo!
- Kroma, Volume 1 TP
- Contents not currently listed.
- Release Date: May 30, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Imprisoned in a tower within the walls of Pale City, Kroma lives her days out in darkness, believing she is the most evil thing on Earth. However, where her people see a monster, the mysterious orphan Zet sees a human.
- But if either of them are to survive the city’s strange rituals and customs, they will have to overcome the cruel fate of Kroma….even if it means risking certain death beyond the walls in the jaws of giant lizards and enormous birds of prey.
- The Good Asian: 1936 Deluxe Edition HC
- Collects The Good Asian #1-10.
- Release Date: June 6, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Collecting the Eisner-award-winning hit in one complete volume alongside special bonus content. THE GOOD ASIAN follows Edison Hark – a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective on the trail of a killer in 1936 San Francisco – in a noir mystery exploring the first generation of Americans to come of age under an immigration ban: the Chinese, as they’re besieged by rampant murders, abusive police, and a world that seemingly never changes.
- Blood Stain, Volume 4 TP
- Collects the fourth volume of the series.
- Release Date: June 13, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Elliot Torres finally found a job she can keep and Vlad Stein finally found an assistant worth keeping. Turns out, things are looking up for both of them. However, on the crossroads where overactive imagination meets sleep deprivation, the mundane life turns unpredictable. Vlad finds himself in desperate need of assistance, luckily assistance is in Elly’s job description. Together, they are about to face their first great hurdle in this new volume of Blood Stain.
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- Inferno Girl Red, Volume 1: A Massive-Verse Book TP
- Contents not currently listed.
- Release Date: June 13, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Apex City is a globally-recognised hub of progress and beacon of hope – until it’s ripped out of our universe by an ancient cult and its army of demons. The only one who can save it is its newest resident, teen Cássia Costa, after a magical dragon bracelet rockets into her life – but the bracelet is powered by belief, and a life of hardship has left Cássia with little of that to spare.
- Inferno Girl Red is a series in the Massive-Verse.
- Invincible Universe Compendium Volume 1 TP
- Collects Invincible Presents: Atom Eve #1-2, Invincible Presents: Atom Eve & Rex Splode #1-3, Guarding The Globe (Vol. 1) #1-6, Guarding The Globe (Vol. 2) #1-6, and Invincible Universe #1-12.
- Release Date: June 13, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- THE BEST SUPERHERO UNIVERSE SERIES IN THE UNIVERSE!
- By now, everyone in the world knows Invincible. But what about the rest of the Invincible Universe’s heroes and villains?
- Atom Eve! Rex Splode! Brit! Best Tiger!
- This collection reveals the secret history of Invincible’s closest allies, as well as the formation of a brand-new Guardians of the Globe team to fight the largest gathering of supervillains ever: The Order.
- Spawn Origins, Volume 25 TP
- Collects Spawn Issues #147-153.
- Release Date: June 13, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- With Spawn revitalized, it’s time to take his pounds of flesh from those who have imprisoned and tortured him. A battle royale of classic proportions in the bowels of Hell itself with Spawn’s most vile villains!
- Night Fever HC
- Collects the original graphic novel.
- Release Date: June 20, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- An amazing new original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of PULP, RECKLESS, CRIMINAL, and KILL OR BE KILLED.
- Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind?
- In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can’t sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city, with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer as his guide. Rainer shows Jonathan the hidden world of the night, a world without rules or limits. But when the fun turns dangerous, Jonathan may find himself trapped in the dark… And the question is, what will he do to get home?
- NIGHT FEVER is a pulse-pounding noir thriller from grand masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. A Jekyll-and-Hyde story of a man facing the darkness inside himself, this riveting tour of the night is a must-have for all Brubaker and Phillips readers!
- The Scumbag, Complete Edition HC
- Collects The Scumbag #1-14.
- Release Date: June 20, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- The fate of the world rests in the hands of the worst person on it! From New York Times bestselling writer RICK REMENDER and a murderers’ row of all-star artistic talent, comes the story of Ernie Ray Clementine—a profane, illiterate, drug-addicted biker with a fifth-grade education who accidentally received a power-imbuing serum making him the world’s most powerful super spy. He is a relic of a bygone era, the living embodiment of sex, drugs, and rock and roll—which doesn’t make things easy for the spy organization that needs his help as they bribe, cajole, and manipulate him to choose between his own self-interests and doing what’s right.
- Eight Billion Genies Deluxe Edition Vol. 1 HC
- Collects the eight issue series.
- Release Date: June 27, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- If you had one wish… what would you wish for? What if everyone else on the planet had one wish too? That’s Eight Billion Genies. Eight seconds after magical genies grant every person on earth one wish, the world is transformed forever…and that’s just the beginning!
- From #1 New York Times bestselling author Charles Soule (Light of the Jedi, Undiscovered Country) and superstar artist Ryan Browne (Curse Words, God Hates Astronauts) comes the most thought-provoking, hilarious, terrifying and emotional ride of the year.
- Gospel Volume 1 TP
- Collects Gospel #1-5.
- Release Date: June 27, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- When opportunity refuses to knock for restless hero Matilde, the devil comes knocking instead. Thrust into action by the hellish arrival, Matilde and storyteller Pitt will quest for renown, the soul of their community and answers to the toughest question of all: “who am I?” Inspired by the work of Hayao Miyazaki and set in the chaos of King Henry VIII’s reign, GOSPEL is a thrilling fantasy adventure that explores the truth behind the stories we tell.
- I Hate Fairyland Volume 5 TP
- Collects I Hate Fairyland Issues #1-5.
- Release Date: June 27, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Eisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG (MIDDLEWEST, TWIG, THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK) and artist BRETT BEAN (Marvel’s Rocket and Groot) bring back the hit comic I HATE FAIRYLAND! Everyone’s favorite green-haired, axe-wielding, crazed maniac returns in this Deadpool-meets-Alice-in-Wonderland-style adventure! Gert is all grown up and living in the real world. Times are tough and the only job she’s qualified for has her trying to find her way back to the place she hates the most…Fairyland.
- Junkyard Joe, Volume 1 TP
- Collects Junkyard Joe #1-6.
- Release Date: June 27, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Throughout history, unlikely and strange heroes have risen and fallen, their identities and lives a secret. But for a Great Evil to be stopped, their stories must be told. They are The Unnamed fighting The Unknown War.
- From the explosive pages of GEIGER comes JUNKYARD JOE! The world knows him from the comic strip by recently retired cartoonist Muddy Davis, but the truth stretches back to the Vietnam War. It was there that the tragedies of combat and visions of a strange robot solider that saved his life still haunt him. However, dreams become reality when Joe mysteriously shows up on Muddy’s doorstep, warning us of a new and impending war.
- Voyagis TP
- Collects Voyagis #1-5.
- Release Date: June 27, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- What if one of the VOYAGER probes was found by aliens on an uninhabitable planet laid waste by a wandering black hole?
- Their resources dwindling and under the thumb of a relentless tyrant, alien hero Sen’s discovery of the probe leads to adventure and possible salvation for her and her people.
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- Dead Eyes, Volume 2 TP
- Collects Dead Eyes #5-9.
- Release Date: July 4, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- The hit crime/comedy series from writer GERRY DUGGAN (ANALOG, Deadpool) and artist JOHN McCREA(Hitman) continues!
- Years ago, someone snatched a bunch of priceless paintings from a famous Boston museum. They’ve never turned up and our man, Dead Eyes sniffs money for the taking — and he’s willing to steal from the mob to get it! Meanwhile, his recent antics have run afoul of the law, and the cops form a task force to trap (or kill!) the masked criminal.
- All Against All TP
- Collects All Against All #1-5.
- Release Date: July 11, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Writer ALEX PAKNADEL (DC vs. Vampires: All Out War), artist CASPAR WIJNGAARD (Home Sick Pilots), and letterer HASSAN OTSMANE-ELHAOU present a primal vision of humanity gone terribly wrong.
- In All Against All, it is the distant future, where a race of disembodied alien conquerors, the Operators, move from world to world, harvesting promising species for their most impressive physical traits.
- Their quest for ever-more-effective host bodies leads them to a forgotten research station, where animal specimens from a dead Earth, along with a small human boy named Helpless, have been collected and preserved in a savage artificial jungle environment.
- When the Operators descend on the research station in search of an apex predator to harvest, they find more than they bargained for when they learn that Helpless is anything but!
- Invincible Volume 1 (New Edition) TP
- Collects Invincible #1-7.
- Release Date: July 11, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- These all-new softcover editions collect the entire INVINCIBLE comic book series from the very beginning, with stunning new covers from Cory Walker & Dave McCaig.
- Mark Grayson is just like most everyone else his age. Except his father is the most powerful superhero on the planet—Omni-Man. When Mark develops powers of his own, it’s a dream come true. But living up to his father’s legacy is only the beginning of Mark’s problems…
- Killadelphia Volume 5 TP
- Collects Killadelphia #25-30.
- Release Date: July 11, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Heroes will die, villains will rise, and the city of Philadelphia will prove to be the pivotal battleground in the war between the forces of Heaven and Hell. This shocking story arc is the perfect jumping on point for new readers, setting up a bold new direction for the sold-out, Eisner Award-nominated horror series!
- Vampire king and first President of the United States, George Washington, has unified the warring vampire factions, blurring the lines between good and evil. Now Washington and co. must face one of the most formidable military leaders in history! General Toussaint Louverture and his Haitian army have been resurrected by the side of the light for one thing and one thing only: exterminate all vampires!
- From Rodney Barnes, the writer behind such hit shows as Marvel’s Runaways and STARZ’s American Gods, and Jason Shawn Alexander, the artist who redefined SPAWN.
- Night Club Volume 1 TP
- Collects Night Club #1-6.
- Release Date: July 11, 2023
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- You’re 17 years old and you’ve been bitten by a vampire. Do you live in the shadows and drink human blood or use your newfound gifts for the dream life of a costumed superhero like you always wanted? You’re bulletproof, you can crawl up walls, turn to mist, bats or even a wolf. Why not have a little fun? Collecting the first six issues of the smash hit NETFLIX series.
- Nemesis: Reloaded TP
- Collects Nemesis: Reloaded #1-5.
- Release Date: July 18, 2023
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- The world’s most evil comic book character is back! Who is Nemesis and why does this eccentric billionaire who dresses up in a mask and cape want to terrorise people instead of helping them? Isn’t that how this is supposed to go? Trigger warning: Too violent and just too cool for some! Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Collecting the entire arc by superstar creative team Mark Millar and Jorge Jiménez.
- Radiant Black, Volume 4: A Massive-Verse Book
- Collects Radiant Black #19-24.
- Release Date: July 18, 2023
- Solicitation Details:
- Something alien has landed on Earth – but what is it?
- As governments and gangs race to unlock its hidden secrets, Nathan and Marshall will be forced to make a dangerous journey that threatens to change their relationship forever.
- Radiant Black is the first series in the Massive-Verse.
- Royal City Compendium One TP
- Collects Royal City #1-14.
- Release Date: July 18, 2023
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- In a return to the literary and thematic territory of JEFF LEMIRE’s breakthrough graphic novel Essex County, ROYAL CITY follows Patrick Pike, a fading literary star who reluctantly returns to the once-thriving factory town where he grew up. There, Patrick is quickly drawn back into the dramas of his two adult siblings, his overbearing mother, and his browbeaten father, all of whom are still haunted by different versions of his youngest brother, Tommy, who drowned decades ago. ROYAL CITY is a sprawling, ambitious graphic novel that charts the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades.
- The Scorched, Volume 2 TP
- Collects Scorched Issues #7-12.
- Release Date: July 18, 2023
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- The Scorched team is back with a renewed sense of purpose and a new vision for approaching the threats on their horizon. The Sin Devourers return, with their creator K, and his diabolical plan to master humanity at all costs. Will the Scorched be able to stop K before it’s too late?
- Two Graves Volume 1
- Collects Two Graves #1-6.
- Release Date: July 18, 2023
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- Emilia and the man with the veil of smoke have set out for the ocean in a stolen truck. There’s a bloody handprint on his neck. She’s beginning to worry it’s hers.
- Death stole Emilia – the first time in his very long life that he hasn’t carried over the soul he was assigned to carry over. It would be romantic, except that they’re being hunted.
- Death and the Maiden go on a road trip. Nobody gets out alive.
- The first volume of a new series from writer GENEVIEVE VALENTINE (Catwoman), illustrated in competing points of view by ANNIE WU (Hawkeye, Black Canary) and MING DOYLE (The Banks, DC Comics: Anatomy of a Metahuman).
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- Hell to Pay Volume 1: Shrouded College Book TP
- Collects Hell to Pay #1-6.
- Release Date: July 25, 2023
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- In HELL TO PAY, money really is the root of all evil. Married couple Maia and Sebastian Stone have entered into a deal with the mysterious Shrouded College – in exchange for magic abilities, the Stones must locate 666 cursed coins brought up from hell centuries ago, each of which can buy the services of a demon. The coins have been used by awful people to do awful things over the years, and now the Shrouded College wants them for itself. If the Stones fail, they will never be free, and the world will become a living hell. But if they succeed… what price will they pay?
- Lovesick TP
- Collects Lovesick #1-7.
- Release Date: July 25, 2023
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- “Nature has a kind of innocent cruelty, while man… Why can’t man’s cruelty be called innocent?”
- In one of the most lurid corners of the dark web, subscribers pay a high price to be maimed, tortured, and killed by the ruthless and irresistible dominatrix, DOMINO. This is what they call love in the LOVESICK CLUB, but as she faces mounting pressure from a needy audience and emerging threats alike, what is the price that Domino will have to pay for success in this literally cut-throat world? And what will she have to become to survive?
- Luana Vecchio invites you into a digital underworld of blood and neon to explore the limits of consent, love, and idolatry in one of the most erotic and extreme stories in recent years!
- Radiant Pink, Volume 1: A Massive-Verse Book TP
- Collects Radiant Pink #1-5.
- Release Date: July 25, 2023
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- When Eva – a video game streamer who is secretly the superhero RADIANT PINK – is invited to the biggest charity stream event of the year, she sees her chance to use her platform for good. But when a surprise attack sends her hurtling across dimensions, Eva will have to rely on everything she has to make it home in one piece.
- Streaming superstar MEGHAN CAMARENA and MELISSA FLORES (THE DEAD LUCKY) are joined by third-generation comics artist EMMA KUBERT (INKBLOT) for a universe-hopping thrill-ride from the world of RADIANT BLACK!
- RADIANT PINK is a part of the MASSIVE-VERSE!
- Art Brut Volume 1 HC
- Collects Art Brut #1-4.
- Release Date: August 29, 2023
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- Presenting here the first major work from the creative minds behind ICE CREAM MAN-re-lettered, remastered, and under its original intended name! The world of fine art is falling apart, and only ART BRUT knows how to fix it. Alongside the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, Arthur Brut the Mad Dreampainter (and his trusty sidekick, Manny the Mannequin) must dive back into the very paintings that made him insane…or reality itself might just crumble to pieces.
- A colorful, gonzo romp through art and art history, ART BRUT is equal parts police procedural, hyper-fantasy, and psychological thriller–a veritable Pollock-splatter of comics genres tossed onto one giant pulpy canvas! Each chapter features new cover art, new design, and a new Silver Age-style backup story featuring the art hero that no one’s ever heard of–until now! Originally published under the title The Electric Sublime, this special hardcover edition presents the NPR-lauded, critically acclaimed material in its intended form.
- Deadly Class Deluxe Edition, Book 4: Kids Will Be Skeletons HC
- Collects Deadly Class #45-56.
- Release Date: August 1, 2023
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- Rick Remender and Wes Craig reunite one last time to bring everyone’s favorite assassin undergrads into a new era, but old habits die hard—and old grudges die even harder. Festering rivalries come to a head, dark secrets are revealed, sins must be atoned for, and few have as many sins as the students of Kings Dominion. Can the latchkey kids of Generation X find a place to belong in a world that doesn’t understand them, or will they drift too far into an unknown future and watch themselves fade away?
- Scotch McTiernan Versus the Forces of Evil TP
- Collects Image 4/20 Special, Image Comics Halloween Party, and Scotch McTiernan’s Holiday Party.
- Release Date: August 1, 2023
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- The love these former Deadpool creators have for Mad Magazine, action movies and weed comes through in the funniest comics you’ll read this year. The action spans from America’s failed war on drugs, to a monster ball, and into a dystopian future of late-stage capitalism. It’s everything you could want from an action comedy. This volume completes the story arc of Scotch McTiernan as he grows from a soldier of fortune to the unlikeliest Ghost Of Christmas future.
- Time Before Time Volume 4 TP
- Collects Time Before Time #19-23.
- Release Date: August 8, 2023
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- Dreams are achieved and losses are mourned in the fourth volume of the critically-acclaimed time-hopping saga.
- After traveling billions of years into the past, Nadia finally reunites with her mother and sister in the hidden city of Arcola. But the happy reunion is shortlived as the city’s hatred of robots soon forces her to choose between Kevin and her family, all while a mysterious threat plots to tear the futuristic city apart.
- A Righteous Thirst For Vengeance Deluxe Edition HC
- Collects Righteous Thirst For Vengeance #1-11.
- Release Date: August 15, 2023
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- Critically acclaimed A RIGHTEOUS THIRST FOR VENGEANCE collected in one deluxe, OVERSIZED, hardcover edition!
- When an unassuming man stops vicious dark web contract assassins from killing their target, he turns himself into one. A quiet, atmospheric slice of life story with sudden bouts of unique and brutal violence. New York Times bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (Seven to Eternity, Deadly Class) and megastar artist ANDRÉ LIMA ARAÚJO (Generation Gone, The Wicked + The Divine) present the story of an unlikely surrogate to a boy hunted by powerful men who are used to getting away with everything in one giant prestige edition loaded with variant covers, sketches, model sheet designs, raw inks, and script pages — the ultimate oversized format to enjoy this groundbreaking series.
- Plush TP
- Collects Plush #1-6.
- Release Date: August 15, 2023
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- Serial killing, cannibalistic furries! PLASTIC and VINYL creators DOUG WAGNER and DANIEL HILLYARD are back. This time they’ve recruited colorist extraordinaire RICO RENZI for their disturbing “neon-horror” spin on fursuit psychopaths and bizarre love.
- In PLUSH, Devin Fulcher is coerced into attending his first furry convention. When he accidentally happens upon a group of furries devouring a human, the insanity begins. Do they just want Devin for dinner… or something much more wicked?
- The Ambassadors, Volume 1 TP
- Collects The Ambassadors #1-6.
- Release Date: August 15, 2023
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- You’ve cracked the superhuman mystery and can give superpowers to six different people around the world. Who do you choose? The world’s greatest and most ambitious superhero comic needs the world’s greatest comic book artists. Step forward Frank Quitely, Travis Charest, Olivier Coipel and an international line-up of superstars introducing all the characters from the brand-new Netflix sensation.
- Little Monsters Volume 2 TP
- Collects Little Monsters #7-13.
- Release Date: August 22, 2023
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- The small group of child vampires has been fractured by the arrival of humans to the ruins of the city they call “home.” Their ultimate survival depends on their ability to work together against the humans.
- The thrilling conclusion to the newest series from JEFF LEMIRE & DUSTIN NGUYEN, the Eisner-winning creative team behind the bestselling DESCENDER and ASCENDER series.
- The Magic Order, Volume 4 TP
- Collects all six issues of the third volume.
- Release Date: August 22, 2023
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- The Magic Order is in turmoil after Cordelia Moonstone was forced to expel her brother from the group and now there are whispers of discontent among the other wizards. They’re tired of the rules they’ve all been living under for centuries, and now a coup is brewing with old friends becoming the greatest threat so far.
- Arrowsmith: So Smart in their Fine Uniforms TP
- Collects Arrowsmith series one issues 1-6.
- Release Date: August 29, 2023
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- The classic fantasy-adventure epic. Young Fletcher Arrowsmith learns the true cost of war, in an alternate history where dragons and magic spells are as much a part of World War I as bullets and barbed wire.
- Ordinary Gods, Volume 2 TP
- Collects Ordinary Gods #7-12.
- Release Date: August 29, 2023
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- The last time the Prodigy awoke, the world narrowly avoided armageddon.
- For the first time in millennia, the Awakened are finally united. On the run after the explosive events of Brazil, and with the agents of the One King close at every turn, Christopher’s mission is finally clear: destroy the God Machine.
- It’s time to end the world.
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Hi, will image comics be printing the deluxe edition of “Kill or Be Killed” by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips for new readers like myself who have only just discovered this past Image title?
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John