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Babs #1

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Ahoy Comics ⋅ 2024

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Babs is a barbarian thief with an enchanted sword named Barry who she uses to battle wizards, dragons, demons and a band of angry knights

Gilt Frame #1

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Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro with an unlikely murder-solving duo

BOOM! ⋅ 2024

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Anthology of horror stories including Something is Killing the Children arc told in the first six issues

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On a trip from New York to Chicago, a man picks up a hitchhiker and both find themselves in the crosshairs of a psychopathic killer but luckily, the driver's new friend is more than he seems

BOOM! ⋅ 2024

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On a special assignment from the FBI, a disgraced army veteran is sent to hunt down an infamous drug runner but finds that they have an unexpected enemy in common

Pedestrian #1

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Magma ⋅ 2024

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A strange visitor speedwalks into Summer City and silently changes the lives of its residents but an ancient conflict linked to the secret history of street signs is brewing

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First comic book series in the Arkham Horror universe, a Lovecraftian publication that also has a board game, card game, and multiple novellas

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The fate of the world depends on six extremely powerful individuals never coming into conflict

Addiction Comics ⋅ 2024

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After a doctor who was attempting to help addicts recover was killed by a drug cartel was then reborn with the power to administer chemical compounds with only a touch

Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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A nurse steps up to the challenge of battling corrupt staff, powerful theme park cults and her own personal demons at a hospital that caters to aliens, ghosts, superheroes and other creatures

Written by Gerard Way (Umbrella Academy, My Chemical Romance)

Domain, The #1

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When three best friends discover a crashed UFO, they also discover technology that gives the wearer incredible abilities but only one of them can use the powers at a time

Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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A thousand years ago, Viking explorer Erik the Red and his four adult children discovered a mysterious source of immortality but now in the modern day, the daughter of the billionaire will kill to be free from her family’s influence

Free Agents #1

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Heroes from another universe who were defeated during a major event attempt to adapt their lives to Earth

Self Help #1

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A pulp, crime story about a rideshare driver who resembles an extremely successful self-help guru stumbles into the situation of a lifetime which, if he’s not careful, may end his life

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Blood Squad Seven delves deep into ’90s comic book themes with this imagining of what would happen if heroes from that decade returned to action after a 30-year absence

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In a world overrun with demons, Archie Andrews is on a quest to cleanse Riverdale of all wicked-kind

Rifters #1

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Two vice time-cops whose days are usually spent chasing prohibition rum runners live-streaming crimes from the 1920s to the future find themselves thrust into the heart of an inter-time serial homicide mystery with potentially lethal consequences

Lawful #1

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BOOM! ⋅ 2024

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In a walled city with strangely familiar architecture, two small children with a sense of adventure get a grim reminder of reality because every mistake one makes in this world will cause them to transform into a monster, bit by bit, and in the eyes of society

Remote Space #1

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In the year 2450, Earth is dying, the human species has gone down two different evolutionary paths - one used cybernetic augmentation for space travel and the others used genetic manipulation to adapt to earth's worsening climate but now, they must work together to survive

Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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A group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback discover an impossible landform, an anomalous environment that defies everything they think they know about the world

Mammoth, The #1

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Mad Cave ⋅ 2024

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Four scientists investigate a bizarre series of seismic activities in a forest valley that legend claims is the work of a monstrous phantom that disappears for decades at a time

Profane #1

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A Los Angeles private investigator’s latest case leads him back to a world famous crime novelist and dangerous truths about his own life

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For Vic Argus, money or rescuing the client is not the sole object because on Hancox, you can eat your enemies

Comics Experience Publishing ⋅ 2024

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The first story of year two follows a magically gifted student who finds herself the target of a patristic entity intent on corrupting and devouring her soul

Blood Moon Comics ⋅ 2024

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Billionaires from around the world find refuge from the apocalypse in a Titanic-sized submarine until a deep ocean parasite penetrates the ship and infects the minds and bodies of the passengers

Blood & Fire #1

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Red 5 ⋅ 2024

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Among the chaos of a bloody civil war that erupted in 16th century Japan, a lone samurai takes a stand

Critical Element ⋅ 2025

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At the end of the Ice Age, a Tribe of Paleo-Indians travel across from Siberia into North America to hunt an elusive pack of Mammoths but when they fail to hunt down the beasts, the tribe members must adapt to their new surroundings before becoming extinct

AWA Upshot ⋅ 2024

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A man wakes up from a coma twenty years in the future where social media rules the world and too many dislikes will result in immediate execution

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Two best-friend outcasts navigate the Sacramento suburbs of 1984 where they find a home in skateboard culture and punk rock

ONI ⋅ 2024

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Limited series inspired by the video game of the same name that explores the backstory of the lamb

Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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Six friends on a road trip are about to find out that the folklore of the Butcher of La Perdita is more than just a 100 year old story

BOOM! ⋅ 2024

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A mundane young man lost in escapism, with a spiraling lack of control over his life, witnesses something during a delivery job that will change him forever

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A woman returns to her violent ways to seek revenge against Death who killed her family

Sanction #1

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Mad Cave ⋅ 2024

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In 1987, Leningrad, a woman’s corpse is discovered on New Year’s Day leading to a pair of detectives connecting the murder to an old, unsolved crime, dragging them both into an investigation that puts their careers and lives at risk

Heartpiercer #1

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Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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A dark fantasy about a betrayed warrior who awakens into a dark world overrun by nightmares

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Bears, pirates, Vikings and queens battle for their claim to determine what the world will become

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Western tale about three brothers who seek out their mother and the men who took her away from them

Comics Experience Publishing ⋅ 2024

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Fallen has always justified his brutal crime-fighting methods by telling himself he's done more good than bad but now, faced with the most difficult decision of his life he wonders if the good he's done can justify the sacrifice he has to make

Zenescope ⋅ 2024

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Abandoned by his country, betrayed by those he once called family and hunted by those who want nothing more than to keep him as a trophy, Pooh is on a mission and no amount of honey will sate his thirst for revenge

Mad Cave ⋅ 2024

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A robot falls in love but encounters trouble when he discovers the object of his affection is entangled with the mafia that runs his city

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Destined lovers, a gunslinger and a samurai are mortally wounded a world apart and awake together in a purgatory, ruled by a ruthless society of damned warriors

Magma ⋅ 2024

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Two unemployed programmers successfully assemble the perfect bank-heist crew out of androids until betrayal and sentience emerge in equally devastating turns

Mad Cave ⋅ 2024

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An innkeeper's secret past of being a rogue mercenary masquerading as a noble hero threatens to expose her to the trusting townspeople whom she serves

Still

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Invader ⋅ 2024

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When the sights and sounds of the snow-covered forest creep into the psyche of a hunter living alone in the woods, the consequences of his past actions begin to manifest as ghosts in the present

Dark Horse ⋅ 2024

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An old biker teamed with a shrewd necromancer who wants him dead and a chainsaw-wielding koala bear wages a bloody war against nightmares from beyond time and space

BOOM! ⋅ 2024

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A 12-year-old boy is baffled by the cartoonish nature of his powers and the murder of crows who follow him until the mystery his family history finally unfolds

Redcoat #1

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Premiere issue of a series connected to the Unnamed Universe

Man's Best #1

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Three loyal pets living on the Starship Horizon, searching for a new planet to house humanity, crash on an alien planet and must utilize their mech suits to rescue their owners

Morning Star #1

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Mad Cave ⋅ 2024

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The family of a smokejumper who died in a wildfire seek solace by spreading the patriarch's ashes in the Montana wilderness but instead find something more powerful than their anguish and torment

Under York #1

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A young woman is pursued by her family of witches who live underneath New York and influence the inhabitants on the surface

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