Bullet Adventures, Kid Kong Goes Bananas, Past Time & Pilgrim
From Altruist Comics, Monster Fun, Mad Cave Studios & B7 Comics
Here are the latest news and previews in comics, including:
A new story begins from Altruist Comics.
Zany fun with Kid Kong Goes Bananas.
A new collected edition from Mad Cave Studios.
And news on Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies #3.
Bullet Adventures #1 from Altruist Comics
Fast-moving action in this new comic series from Altruist Comics in Bullet Adventures #1.
Altruist Comics is proud to debut BULLET ADVENTURES #1, a high-octane, heart-first superhero series that puts legacy, science, and time-warped storytelling into overdrive.
Created by Jordan Alsaqa (Cooking with Monsters, Apex Legends) and Randy Stone (The Sensational Swan, Death & Comics), with art and colors by Lara Kane (Flash Gordon, Semiautomagic), and letters by Lucas Gattoni (Blue Beetle, DC Pride, Killer Queens), this series kicks off a generational saga that’s as punchy as it is poignant—with stunning variant covers by Nicolás Carrizo and Francesca Cittarelli, and retailer incentive cover by Lara Kane, it’s a thrill ride from start to finish!
Elderly Dale DeSouza, the former Silver Age speedster known as Bullet, is living out his final days in quiet isolation—until a visitor from the past (or is it the future?) drags him back into action. Transported to 1967 by a time-traveling scientist with more ambition than ethics, a newly de-aged Bullet must navigate old foes, new threats, and the strange twists of his own legacy. Can he get back to his own time… or will he change history first?
Bullet Adventures #1 also features two standout backup stories The Sensational Swan: The Session by PD Loupee and Randy Stone with 2022 Russ Manning Award winner Luana Vecchio (Lovesick), and The Backdoor Pilots, written by Dino Caruso with art by Alex Diotto (Olympia, Youth), colors by Paul Little, and letters by Adam Wollet.
Together, these additions round out a debut issue that offers far more than just a punchy lead—Bullet Adventures #1 is a full-throttle launchpad for a new generation of voices.
Fans of high-energy, emotionally grounded superhero fare like Ms. Marvel, Ultimate Spider-Man, and The Flash will feel right at home. Like Invincible (pre-carnage), this series balances legacy and reinvention with a tone that’s fresh, accessible, and quietly subversive.
The full-color, 28-page debut is all-ages friendly with just enough edge for older readers, and will be available through comic retailers, Altruist Comics, and digital platforms starting September 10, 2025.
Learn more about Altruist Comics and their titles at https://altruistcomics.com/
Kid Kong Goes Bananas!
Ape fun from Monster Fun with Kid Kong Goes Bananas.
CREATIVE TEAM: Alec Worley (w) Karl Dixon (a)
RELEASE DATE: September 24th
PAPERBACK, 144 pages
PRICE: £9.99
HE'S APE-SOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!
Kid Kong is an adorable young ape who lives with his wacky, human granny. With a gigantic appetite for bananas to match his huge size, Kid and Gran often find themselves in incredible situations. Whether they're hairdressing with aliens in outer space or time-travelling on Gran's special scooter, fun and laugher are 100% guaranteed!
Written by Alec Worley (Star Wars Adventures, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and featuring the playful art of Karl Dixon (The Beano's Beryl the Peril), Kid Kong is a firm favourite bounding from the pages of the monthly Monster Fun comic!
Part of the Monster Fun Collection, spinning from the pages of the hit UK comic, this brilliant range of books aims to inspire children to love reading through incredible stories and cool characters.
Available in print from: 2000 AD webshop, book stores, Amazon, and comic book stores via Diamond
Available in digital from: 2000 AD webshop, 2000 AD app for Apple & Android
Under the Lights, the Shadows Lengthen
Mad Cave Studios are collecting baseball-related horror with the first volume of Past Time.
Some legends are born on sun-baked diamonds. Others only come alive when the stadium lights flicker on. Mad Cave Studios
Just in time for the World Series,brings fans PAST TIME VOL. 1, collecting the complete five-issue run of the genre-bending sports-horror series from New York Times bestselling writer Joe Harris (Great Pacific, Snowfall, The X-Files: Cold Cases) and artist Russell Mark Olson (Gateway City), with letters by Carlos M. Mangual.This first full arc brings the full first arc—spanning barnstorming ball of the 1920s to the blinding glare of the modern big leagues—into one gripping volume!
Henry Hayes could have been the best to ever do it—if only his affliction didn’t make daylight lethal. When barnstormers unveil a novelty that changes the game—night baseball—Henry’s shot at the pros finally feels real. But the brighter the lights, the longer the shadows; and in those shadows, Henry’s bloody past is still keeping score. From midwestern backfields to today’s national stage, Past Time is a small-town thriller with big-league stakes.
From dusty dirt lots to big-city neon, Past Time plays the long game, stacking tension inning by inning until the final out. Whether you come for the crack of the bat or the chill in your spine, this is a story about the cost of ambition, the ghosts we drag between bases, and the price of stepping into the light.
For fans of The Natural, Let the Right One In, and The Sandlot by way of Stephen King, Past Time delivers grounded sports drama with razor-edged supernatural suspense.
Past Time Vol. 1 arrives in shops October 14, 2025, also available as a Mad Cave series bundle!
Pilgrim #7 From B7 Comics Coming Soon
I’m a little late here, but the third issue of Pilgrim is coming out in October from B7 Comics. Check out the details of the series and a promo video for issue #3.
UK indie producer and publisher B7 Media has announced PILGRIM, a new four-part comic book mini-series, the first title of a new comic book imprint B7 Comics based on original audio, film and television properties.
B7 Comics has revealed the first four-issue mini-series PILGRIM: Secrets and Lies will be written by former Marvel UK editor John Freeman (Crucible, Doctor Who), based on the universe created by Bev Doyle, Richard Kurti (Terry Pratchett’s Going Postal, The Baker Street Irregulars, Wolfblood) and Andrew Mark Sewell (Dan Dare, I, Robot and Blake’s 7), featuring art by Neil Edwards (Spider-Man Season One, Torchwood), Alex Ronald (Lost Fleet, Doctor Who, Judge Dredd) and Wamberto Nicomedes, better known as Wam Nick (Anunnaki – The Lords of Eternity, King Cobra).
“B7 Comics has been in the works for a while and it’s great to be extending our long-time collaboration with John Freeman with this new publishing venture,” says B7 Media’s Managing Director, Andrew Mark Sewell. “Given our long association with reimagining genre favourites like Blake’s 7, The Martian Chronicles, I Robot and Dan Dare, it’s a natural progression for us to look to the world of comics and graphic novels as a platform to expand and develop some of our audio, film and television projects. Comics have rightly inspired a generation of filmmakers, so it’s nice to slightly reverse engineer the process and dramatise some of our properties into what I hope will be a long-running comic book series.”
“Most people associate me with my audio and indie film work,” Andrew continues. “But the truth is my connection to the world of comics stretches back to the late 1980s when I staged comic book events such as the launch of Judgement in Gotham and the Longest Comic Strip in the World, helped establish Stateside Comics as a franchise in Virgin Megastores and Hamleys, to my involvement with Great Eastern Conventions in the US. I’ve always recognised the incredible creative minds working in comics, so I’m delighted to be embracing this world once again.”
Writer John Freeman adds, “It was a pleasure working with Andrew and his team on the Dan Dare audio adventures, but working on Pilgrim, contributing to the creation of a completely new fictional universe, is challenging, fun and, from everything seen so far, rewarding. I’m glad to be part of it.”
Working in the world of comics is something very new to scriptwriters Kurti-Doyle, but it’s a transition they’ve relished. “As screenwriters, our primal instincts are always to think visually (even when writing for radio!) so it has been particularly exciting to see Pilgrim evolve into a graphic novel,” says Richard Kurti. “Turning books into screenplays involves a lot of distillation and turning a screenplay into a graphic novel takes this process even further; John has now produced the ‘pure alcohol’ version of Pilgrim!”
“What is particularly thrilling is the visual ambition of the piece,” adds Bev Doyle. “Scriptwriters are used to hearing the phrase ‘It’s nice, but we can’t afford it.’ Thankfully, that doesn’t apply to graphic novels – the only limit is the imagination.”
“There is a huge arc to Pilgrim; the themes work on the largest possible timescale, but the stories are played out on a very human scale, and John’s work captures this duality so well. We are always with the characters but remain constantly aware that they are riding on an epic story.”
The journey from teleplay to comic book was a natural progression agrees Kurti and Doyle, “From the very outset, Pilgrim was created with multiple media in mind, and we are delighted by this first incarnation.”
Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies digs deep into the millennia old strata of our planet and unearths something... completely unknown. Dormant since long before the dinosaurs, it’s incomprehensible, ancient - and alien.
With the world transformed by environmental disaster, tensions rising between the Western Alliance and the Eastern Coalition and space colonisation beyond our solar system now within easy reach, the discovery lying beneath the Antarctic ice promises to be a threat we have never faced before.
Some will go to extreme lengths to expose the deadly enigma’s secrets. And others will go even further to protect them.
Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies launches with a special prequel story, drawn by Wamberto Nicomedes (Wam Nick), which will feature in SHIFT Magazine Issue 8, available from GetMyComics and through other distribution points.
