New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: Crime
- Trusty Henchman
- Dec 23, 2025
- 5 min read
Five Gears in Reverse: A Criminal Book HC
A brand new CRIMINAL graphic novel featuring the legendary RICKY LAWLESS and the crazy tale of how he and MALLORY fell in love in the midst of a crime spree.
In one of the wildest, most action-packed books that Brubaker and Phillips have ever done, we delve deep into the life of one of CRIMINAL's most complex and tragic characters, Ricky Lawless as he tries to pay off a deep debt to a mobster, while things just keep going from bad to worse.
FIVE GEARS IN REVERSE will have long-time CRIMINAL fans cheering the return of RICKY LAWLESS and new readers will find it a perfect jumping-on-point for the greatest crime comic series of the 21st century.
Hardcover · 144 pages · $24.99 · Case Bound
Releases May 20, 2026
Wild Animals TP
Perfect for fans of gritty crime thrillers like Criminal and Parker, Brisson and Kuhn deliver a hard-hitting, high-stakes story that pulls no punches.
Neil’s life has been falling apart ever since his father was killed by crooked cops. Fifteen years later, Neil’s mother lays on her deathbed and he’s stuck in a dead-end job, has nowhere to live, and no hope to speak of. Life keeps kicking Neil and he keeps taking it, too frightened to fight back. Until now. With his world crumbling around him, Neil finds himself backed into a corner, with no choice but to make a stand and right the wrongs that have haunted him for years. Revenge is a dangerous path to walk and the deeper Neil goes, the more he realizes that violence is all consuming.
Trade Paperback · 128 pages · $17.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Feb 3, 2026
Pop Kill: Killing Your Thirst Deluxe Edition HC
Mad Cave's best-selling creator-owned series is collected into a beautiful hardcover edition, with an all-new cover by Dave Johnson! Guaranteed to unleash the fizz in your pop!
Imagine a world where two dominant and competing cola companies, each worth billions, are owned by former Siamese twins who have been separated and now harbor such intense hatred for each other that they hire assassins, saboteurs, and espionage experts to interfere with one another daily. This is the story of brotherly love gone awry and the people they recruit to do their dirty work. Collected for the first time in a stunning hardcover format, with an all-new cover by Dave Johnson!
Hardcover · 176 pages · $39.99 · Case Bound
Releases Feb 10, 2026
Unemployed Killers Support Group Vol. 1 TP
For fans of Reservoir Dogs-style dark comedy and chaotic criminal camaraderie, a Noir-turned-Manga.
Rio delivers stunning artwork, sharp wit, blood-soaked backstories, and a brutally offbeat take on redemption.
Unemployed Killers Support Group is a razor-sharp, darkly hilarious noir-esque manga from Taiwanese creator Rio, shortlisted at the 2023 Angoulême International Comics Festival. This is not your average self-help group.
Locker Loyed, once a deadly sniper, lost his vision—and his job—on a mission gone wrong. Now, he’s joined an unlikely circle of former contract killers, each grappling with their own personal collapse. Among them: Gloria Maze, a meticulous assassin whose career imploded after catching her husband cheating and killing the mistress in a jealous rage; Jerry Cole, a justice-obsessed lawyer turned bloodthirsty executioner; and Jordi Joe, a delusional con man who’s never actually killed anyone.
As they try to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, Locker begins to realize his past isn’t done with him. A dangerous figure—the one responsible for his blindness and a friend’s death—is still at large. And revenge is still on the table.
For fans of dark comedy, crime thrillers, and twisted found family, Unemployed Killers Support Group is a bold, bloody, and brilliantly offbeat ride through the lives of society’s most dangerous burnouts. Welcome to the group—check your conscience at the door.
Trade Paperback · 256 pages · $12.99
Releases Feb 3, 2026
This Ends Tonight TP
THIS ENDS TONIGHT presents three intertwining tales of revenge that tears through Las Vegas on a single action-packed night.
Sin City has about 250 murder victims sent to the morgue every year — these three tales eclipse that in just a few hours with guns, knives, swords, poison, a spike strip and vehicular mayhem. THIS ENDS TONIGHT!
GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men & Deadpool) and JAE LEE (Eisner-winning artist of Inhumans and Hellshock) team up with co-writers KELVIN MAO and ROBERT WINDOM and colorist JUNE CHUNG.
Collects all 3 issues.
Trade Paperback · 104 pages · $14.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Dec 24, 2025
Godzilla: Heist TP
Get ready for an all-out crime adventure in this graphic novel that combines the kaiju action of Godzilla with the intrigue of a classic heist movie.
What if you could predict when and where Godzilla would appear? What if you knew of the perfect opportunity to pull off the heist of the century?
Jai is a young man who knows two things: A heist needs a good distraction, and there’s no distraction like Godzilla. So, when Jai discovers Godzilla responds to specific energy signals he can send into the atmosphere, he creates the perfect opportunity to stage high-profile heists in the middle of Godzilla attacks. But these heists put Jai on the radar of some very dangerous people — people who want Jai to work with them to pull off the most dangerous job the world has ever seen.
Trade Paperback · 128 pages · $21.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Jan 13, 2026
The Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre #1
Disco Hippo Wonderland is the number one amusement park in Flamingo City. But few realize its corpulent owner, Jans M’jor Discau, is about to release the most potent drug ever created: Coke45! Fortunately for humanity, Agent Clarke Nebraska is on the case! She’ll bring down Discau come heck or high water! That was the plan, until her undercover agent, Tico Senecoza, was captured! And before she can rescue him, Miquel—Tico’s sexy loose cannon of an older brother beats her to the punch, storming into the park with bullets flying. Discau panics, dumping the Coke45 into the hippo enclosure and letting them loose on the park, before fleeing into Wonderland’s tunnel network! Nebraska’s plans are totally off the rails, and things get worse when a marijuana smoke fueled hurricane drowns the park in torrential rain! Now it's up to Nebraska and Miquel to create an uncomfortable truce to bring Discau down before he escapes!
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99Releases Feb 18, 2026
Is Ted OK? #1
This is a story about Ted and Sarah. Ted, isolated and paranoid, works for a mega-corporation owned by the world’s only trillionaire. He suffers from night terrors, obsessively draws the same mysterious figures again and again, all while listening to one track of music on repeat–oh, and the only “person” he ever talks to is a stray cat. His humanity is hanging by a thread. Sarah is a new arrival to the city, fighting her own demons, and her job is to remotely spy on Ted to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone…or himself. When Ted’s mental state begins to crack, Sarah compassionately intervenes to help, and things go catastrophically wrong.
IS TED OK? mashes up the paranoid existentialism of SEVERANCE with the cosmic sci-fi of AKIRA while exploring what happens when the act of help goes horribly wrong. From creator Dave Chisholm (SPECTRUM, MILES DAVIS & THE SEARCH FOR THE SOUND), Is Ted OK? is a spectacularly unpredictable yarn–each successive issue shatters the scope of the previous, all without losing its core: a search for human connection in an oppressive, paranoid world.
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
Releases Feb 25, 2026
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