Red 5 Comics, Geek-Girl, Barbaric & Judge Dredd: Case Files
News On The Latest Previews & Crowd Funding
Some previews from Red 5 Comics, a new Kickstarter from Hellbound Media, its Geek-Girl month, some news on Barbaric from Vault Comics, and Rebellion’s Judge Dredd: Case Files.
Double Dead Kingdom from Red 5 Comics first up, with a collection of the first volume as well as the beginning of the second volume.
On February 14 (or close enough to it!) Dead Kingdom Volume II #1 hits comic shops.
As Kain and Alice are reunited, the Kingdom is falling into despair. The undead spread through the land, enrolling Kain and his companions back into the fight. On a mission to bring back a weapon that may turn the tide of the invasion, the group will soon realize that something worse than the undead lurks in the shadow.
Dead Kingdom Volume II #1 can be ordered from your comic shop using the code: NOV231674
And if you missed Volume 1, the trade paperback of the 5 issue series will be hitting shops at the same time
A mysterious plague is haunting the kingdom. With the help of a peacekeeper, a group of soldiers investigate a village that may hold the answers to what is happening. But the truth is far worse that everyone could ever imagine. Dead Kingdom is a five-part, multi layered saga that will explore a world where sorcery, brotherhood, and love collide with the rising nightmare of the living dead.
The award winning trade paperback can be ordered with Diamond Code: NOV231673
Also coming soon from Red 5 Comics is the latest issue of Prometheus In Chains!
The Bride returns on Valentine's Day! Look for Prometheus In Chains #5 in stores soon
(W) Richard Davis (A) Jordan Direnzo (CA) Les Lindon Garner
Victor questions everything. His life. His work. His sanity. His morality. Even reality itself. Elizabeth explores a cruel world.
Prometheus In Chains #5 can be ordered from your comic shop using the code: AUG232185
Steampunk horror from Hellbound Media on Kickstarter now, with Clockwork Werewolves #1.
Classic horror meets a steampunk style as a paranormal investigator faces the Clockwork Werewolves
A seemingly ordinary fieldtrip to the town of Direholm, known for some of the oldest recorded werewolf legends in Europe, becomes a race to survive as occult expert Gabriel Cushing realises local myths owe more to fact than fiction. Direholm's Observatory is the home to Werewolves... and not just any lycans, but cyborg beasts from the Victorian Age! Soon Gabriel, his apprentice Melanie Lancley, and a group of terrified students, find themselves trapped on a school coach, under siege, surrounded by evil, and low on gas!
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It’s Geek-Girl month!
Check out what’s coming from Markosia in February and news on the upcoming Kickstarter.
For those of you not already onboard the series, mark your calendars for Valentine's Day, Feb 14 - when Geek-Girl #11 Jump-On Deluxe Edition goes on General Release!
In this Extra-Sized Jump-On issue: in an attempt to join her Super-Team, Ruby Kaye (a.k.a. Geek-Girl)'s BFF Summer sets out to get her own powers, and Geek-Girl's life flashes before her eyes as she takes on Identity Thief - who wants to BE her!
The Deluxe issue contains all content from Geek-Girl #11 (Identity Crisis Part 1) and the Fake Geek-Girl #1-Shot: also released as its own comic on the same day.
Geek-Girl #12 (Identity Crisis Part 2) releases a week later on Feb 21 - and then on the 28th, the New Geek-Girl Kickstarter launches - with issues #13-#15 and all previous issues!
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Vault Comics has announced a special incentive to join Barbaric. This new issue is being made free for retailers and is a good starting point for new readers.
Vault has announced they are expanding their industry-changing Free-to-Retailers program, and will make BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 completely free to retailers.
In 2023, Vault founded the innovative Free-to-Retailers program, offering retailers first issues at no cost. The first two titles launched under this program were Christopher Yost and Val Rodrigues’ UNNATURAL ORDER #1, and Zack Kaplan & Fabiana Mascolo’s BEYOND REAL #1. Collectively, these two issues received over a quarter million copies ordered.
BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 is a true jumping on point for new readers, requiring no previous knowledge of the series in order to read, making it a perfect issue for Vault’s free-to-retailers program, enabling retailers to hook in new readers to one of the most beloved and best-selling independent comic series of the past decade.
Barbaric is one of the best-selling independent comics of the past decade. Co-created by writer Michael Moreci and artist Nathan Gooden,, Barbaric has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and was named one of the best comics of 2021 by Entertainment Weekly, Thrillest, CBR, Comics Beat, & more. The story follows Owen, a bloodthirsty barbarian and his drunk axe as they roam an untamed, mythic realm battling supernatural cultists, hungry giants, creatures of the night, and more in their quest to somehow, amidst all this chaos, do some good.
The standard cover of BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 will be offered to retailers in free bundles of 25 copies. The issue will retain its $4.99 SRP, and retailers will be free to sell, discount, or freely distribute copies to their customers as they see fit. In addition to the standard cover, Vault will offer net-priced, open order premium variants from a murderers row of hit artists like Corin Howell, Adam Cahoon, Ed Luce, and Patrick Gañas. Barbaric: Born in Blood #1 will also feature a stunning Berserk manga homage variant by Angela Wu, which is sure to be a hit among manga readers.
A new era of Barbaric begins!
Worried Axe is going to find out you fell behind on a few issues? Scared to admit that despite all your friends raving about Barbaric for years, you still haven’t joined in on the fun? Rejoice! For Barbaric: Born in Blood begins the next season of Owen, Axe, and Soren’s tale. Yes, that’s right! We did it…the thing everyone says they’re doing, even when they’re lying through their teeth: a genuinely good jumping on point. How, you ask? Well, it all starts with a compelling new bad guy.
Meet Orrick, the tortured barbarian now turned master torturer, who will take us deep into Owen’s past, revealing secrets that should have stayed buried…like Axe in a chest cavity slurping up that sweet, delicious blood. Will the cursed-to-do-good barbarian finally do some actual good? Probably not! But some much worse guys will almost certainly lose their heads. Yummy!
BARBARIC: BORN IN BLOOD #1 will hit store shelves on April 10th, 2024.
Rebellion has announced the release of the latest collection - this time, it is Judge Dredd Case Files 44.
CREATIVE TEAM: John Wagner, Gordon Rennie, Rob Williams, Ian Edginton, Robbie Morrison (w) Carlos Ezquerra, Ian Gibson, Colin MacNeil, Mike McMahon, Jock, Henry Flint, Rufus Dayglo, Vince Locke, PJ Holden, Patrick Goddard, Boo Cook, Richard Elson, Paul Marshall, Cliff Robinson, Len O'Grady, D'Israeli, Lee Garbett, Anthony Williams, Peter Doherty (a)
RELEASE DATE: 8 May
PAPERBACK, 304 pages
PRICE: £24.99
ISBN: 9781837861675
NO CITY FOR OLD MEN!
The best-selling series collecting The Law in order continues. This action-packed volume contains the finale of the epic Origins saga, which sets Dredd on a new quest for justice as he begins to question Mega-City One’s treatment of the mutant population and the laws that keep them down. But what happens when the man upholding the law no longer believes in it?
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