Essential Judge Anderson: Childhood's End, Athanasia, Ionheart & Bullet Adventures
From Rebellion, Vault Comics, Top Shelf Productions & Altruist Comics
The latest comics news and previews including:
A new Judge Anderson collection.
A new OGN from Vault Comics.
Science fiction and fantasy in Ionheart.
And a new series from Altruist Comics.
Essential Judge Anderson: Childhood's End
Judge Anderson is a classic character spinning out of the main Judge Dredd stories, and Rebellion has a new collection, Childhood’s End.
CREATIVE TEAM: Alan Grant (w) Kev Walker, Dave Taylor, David Roach, Jake Lynch (a) Steve Potter, Ellie De Ville (l)
RELEASE DATE: August 27th
PAPERBACK, 144 pages
PRICE: £21.99
PSI Judge Cassandra Anderson's belief in the origins of civilisation is put to the test when she is brought to investigate an ancient relic on Mars, believed to be half a million years old. But as her crew members start dying, she finds herself confronting a threat that feels all-too familiar...
This volume collects some of Alan Grant's (Judge Dredd, Batman) defining storylines, including his previously uncollected Judge Death stories.
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
Vault Announces Athanasia, A Haunting New Original Graphic Novel From Daniel Kraus and Dani
A new horror original graphic novel from Vault Comics. Athanasia looks to be an intriguing read, with some unique art and colouring.
Vault is thrilled to announce ATHANASIA, a new original graphic novel written by New York Times bestselling author and horror master Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, Trollhunters, The Autumnal, Whalefall), drawn by modern master artist Dani (Arkham City: The Order of the World, Coffin Bound, The Low, Low Woods), colored by Brad Simpson, lettered by Jim Campbell, and designed by Tim Daniel.
Get ready for the most disturbing superhero story ever told. Forrest Molson is going nowhere. One year out of high school—and one year into sobriety—she's working with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the final resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City's resident superheroes. At her lowest point, Forrest discovers Athanasia's darkest secret. At night, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the ooze of rotting superheroes. This ooze becomes Forrest's new drug—and she's intent on using the unpredictable powers it bestows to be judge, jury, and executioner of Venture City's evil citizens. But, as she loses her mind to her new addiction, she inches closer to becoming the most evil of all. ATHANASIA is a superhero story seen through the darkest lens.
“ATHANASIA is six years in the making and that's because I -- and the whole team -- have approached it with as much care as possible. It was a dream of mine to work with Dani,” said Kraus. “I wanted to work with Vault again. And so there was some waiting for those stars to align. But I never got weary or impatient. This thing has been a labor of love from the very first moment I had the idea. Speaking of the idea, it first came to me when I was approached by one of the Big Two to do a superhero comic for an established character. It was an odd invite, because I'm not a superhero guy. At all. I can't stress that enough. My pitch was accepted but it ended up falling apart for business reasons. That ended up being hugely fortuitous, because got me thinking: What would I do if left to my own devices to write a superhero story?
“Within about ten minutes of thinking about it, my brain went ‘superhero cemetery,’" continued Kraus. “What would happen to the soil if you buried superheroes close together? Very quickly, the answer led me down a story path toward addiction, and the lengths we go to excuse our behaviors. Even if you haven't experienced the former, you surely understand the latter.
"Though I was writing a superhero story, I had no interest in heroism on a major scale. It was only small, personal acts of heroism that interested me. The larger sense of heroism as it applies to superheroes has always felt simplistic and overly optimistic to me. Powers of superhero magnitude would warp one as absolutely as any absolute power does. Also, Dani is a genius, and I will never, ever forget the dazzled delight I would feel upon seeing each batch of new pages for the time.”
"When I was approached by Daniel Kraus and got introduced to the world of Athanasia, I was in a weird place in my life," added Dani. "I was taking care of my grandmother who was bedbound and in the last months of her life and my parents were sick and trapped abroad during covid. Reading about Forrest's story hit me hard.
“This book is about family issues, battling with addiction and struggling for inner balance,” continued Dani. “Also, Daniel and I share the same approach to the superhero genre and its darker layers so this was a project I instantly knew I wanted to be a part of.
“The relationships Daniel created in this book are so delicate and fragile. As an artist, showcasing this through my linework was important so I took the creative choice of renewing my normal style of heavy blocks of ink and replacing it with textured pen scratches. This doubled the workload considering the length of the book but was totally worth it. Pairing that with Brad Simpson's excellent color choices and we ended up with a visual I'll always be proud of.”
ATHANASIA will be published as a two hundred and fifty six page deluxe graphic novel, and can be found in comic and book stores everywhere this October.
Top Shelf Weaves SciFi into a Fairytale with Ionheart
An exciting new story from Top Shelf Productions with Ionheart, blending a mix of genres.
Imagine a colorful dystopian world where everyday appliances are traded as magical currency and a time-traveling knight becomes the hero to save the world! This is IONHEART, the english-language debut from German creator Lukas Kummer from award-winning independent publisher of graphic novels Top Shelf Productions (IDW Publishing). This ambitious, atom-smashing book combines trace elements of everything from Tintin to Blade Runner to Adventure Time to The Dark Tower into a deadly breakthrough: intricate, explosive, and entirely new – IONHEART is set to release August 19, 2025.
“I always enjoyed stupid smart things... Or smart stupid things. To me, that's the pinnacle of art,” says creator Lukas Kummer.
Pursued by a terrifying demon, a young knight flees across the radioactive ruins of a fairy-tale land. His only weapon is the same cursed power that once destroyed this world—what some would call magic, and others would call technology.
As his relentless enemy draws closer, the knight’s terrible secrets begin to unfold. How many lives has he lived? Is this the past, the present, or the future? Is he destined to bring love, or unimaginable destruction? And if he fails…will humanity get another chance?
The English-language debut of Austrian-German graphic novelist Lukas Kummer arrives like a thunderbolt, arcing brilliantly between timelines, genres, and dimensions!
Ionheart will be available wherever books are sold, as a full-color softcover graphic novel (ISBN: 9781603095587) as well as a digital edition, on August 19, 2025. For more information please visit the Top Shelf web site.
Speed, Style, and a Silver Age Surprise—Bullet Adventures #1 Fires from the Gate
A new series from Altruist Comics with Bullet Adventures #1, beginning the story of a new superhero.
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 rounding out the powerhouse creative team, 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?
This bold new series isn’t just a nostalgia trip. It’s something new. Something built to last—
“Coming off the original Bullet one-shot, I knew the bar was set pretty high, but we had a clever way to reintroduce the character and launch a series that blended classic superhero energy with a modern heartbeat,” said writer Randy Stone. “Collaborating with Jordan on the script was some of the most fun I’ve had in comics—and the whole team absolutely crushed it.”
“Superheroes and Sonic the Hedgehog got me into comics, so co-creating a speedster with Randy has been a dream,” said co-writer Jordan Alsaqa. “Our goal was always a fast-paced, silver-age-flavored book that still feels grounded and progressive.”
Artist Lara Kane added, “It was a blast and an honor to be part of the first issue of Bullet Adventures. Working with Randy and Jordan reminded me of why I fell in love with superhero comics in the first place—pure fun and energy from start to finish.”
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.
Bullet Adventures #1 features two open order variant covers by Nicolás Carrizo with Francesca Cittarelli, and Lara Kane. 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.
