BLACK MASK COMICS
BLACK AF WIDOWS & ORPHANS TP #1
(W) Kwanza Osajyefo (A) Tim Smith (CA) Khary Randolph
Chillingly prophetic, telling the tale of the children of superpowered people being torn away from their parents and sold on the black market." -LA WEEKLY In a world where only black people have superpowers, what price do they fetch on the black market? From the pages of BLACK, this new story features Anansi and Hoodrat investigating a human trafficking ring that will take them across the globe and bring them face-to-face with dark pasts of abuse, child soldiers, and families torn apart. Collects issues 1-4.
CRITICAL HIT TP #1
(W) Matt Miner (A) Jonathan Brandon Sawyer (CA) Jonathan Brandon Sawyer
Sarah and Jeanette love animals with a vengeance. Under cover of darkness, they don ski-masks and wield sledgehammers, rescuing abused animals from dog-fighting rings, illegal testing labs, and other abusers. When they wreak havoc on a rogue gang of hunters, though, the girls find themselves in over their heads. The gang they've stumbled onto aren't hunters - they're serial killers. And soon the liberators become the prey! Collects issues 1-4.
MAYDAY TP
(W) Curt Pires (A) Christopher Peterson (CA) Alexis Ziritt
A washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult's plan to sacrifice people all across LA (geomapped in the form of a pentagram, of course) and bring on Armageddon. As our intrepid heroes embark on a suicide mission to stop the crazy cultists, even they wonder if this is all really happening or if they're just plain crazy. Probably both. Curt Pires (Olympia) teams with artists Chris Peterson (Grindhouse) and Alex Diotto (Olympia) and colorists Marissa Louise (The Wilds) and Dee Cunniffe (The Dregs) for a story that cuts to the very center of Hollywood mythology and depravity itself. Collects issues 1-4.
PIROUETTE TP #1
(W) Mark L. Miller (A) Carlos Granda (CA) Carlos Granda
Raised from infancy by duplicitous clowns who entertain by day and menace by night, Pirouette dreams of washing the paint from her face and escaping to a better life far away from her cruel adoptive circus family... because when the spotlights dim and the crowd disperses, the clown princess' big-top dreams give way to a nightmarish world of monsters with painted smiles. M.L. Miller (Gravetrancers) spins Pirouette with authentic darkness and depth of character, while Carlos Granda's (CALEXIT) sweeping, exuberant line art evokes all the exotic charm and mysterious gloom of Pirouette's shadowy big top.