New & Upcoming Comics Spotlight: Sci-Fi
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Last Call to Leave Earth TP
When a mysterious photo changes their lives, three former friends, a haunted photographer, a fame-obsessed UFO enthusiast, and a devoted cult member, reunite to uncover the truth lurking in their small town.
Rita, Carlos, and Lucas were merely friends until a pivotal moment changed everything: they photographed what many in the small town of Caminho da Anta believed to be an alien. Years later, Rita, now thriving as a professional photographer, returns to discover the truth behind that fateful day and its effects on their lives and the community. A troubled photographer, a fame-seeking UFO enthusiast, and a loyal cult member are all in pursuit of answers, but what they find could be more extraordinary than they ever anticipated.
Trade Paperback · 180 pages · $10.99
Releases Mar 24, 2026
Grendizer U: The Inception Vol. 1 TP
The origins of the great UFO Robot Grendizer comes to life in this manga based on the hit Anime Grendizer U.
Fans of mecha anime will love to discover the origins of one of the most heroic characters in the Mazinger series.
When a UFO from the Vega Alliance arrives on Earth, humanity faces its biggest threat in an oncoming Alien invasion. But their hope arrives in another Alien, Duke Fleed, a refugee of the planet Fleed who finds his home in Japan. Duke pilots the mighty Grendizer, a weaponized Mech to fight off the Vega forces. Along with his best friend and partner Koji Kabuto, they fight to free Earth from the terror of the Vega forces.
Written by the legendary Go Nagai and illustrated by 8KEY, Grendizer: U The Inception modernizes the iconic story of the lost prince who shoulders the responsibility to protect his new home from the same Empire that destroyed his last.
Featuring a prequel story by Tatsuto Higuchi not told before, this manga is an adaptation of the anime Grendizer U.
Trade Paperback · 128 pages · $12.99
Releases Apr 29, 2026
News from the Fallout TP
Interrupting your regularly scheduled broadcast to deliver a terrifying sci-fi story that takes place in Nevada in 1962 after a nuclear bomb test goes horribly awry.
In 1962 Nevada's "Atomic Alley," a nuclear bomb test goes horribly awry at the secretive Gaines Army Base and unleashes a contaminate into the atmosphere that turns people rotten. Otis Fallows, a private in the U.S. Army who is present for the test and is the only known survivor, flees the secret army base in search of a safe haven —
but does such a place exist?
Collects NEWS FROM THE FALLOUT #1-6.
Released Mar 4, 2026
A Quiet Place: Storm Warning #1
The world ended in a hush.
The creatures came for the cities first. But in Pearl, Iowa — a tiny island town on the Mississippi — the mayor and townsfolk believe that's someone else's problem. Cut off from the chaos of the coasts, they think they can ride out the storm. But fire chief Lonnie Fry knows better. The creatures that hunt by sound are coming west, and unless the people of Pearl take drastic action, silence won't save them — it'll bury them.
From legendary creators Phil Hester (Green Arrow, Swamp Thing) and Ryan Kelly (Lucifer, Local) comes the first-ever A Quiet Place comic series — an untold chapter of fear, family, and sacrifice set in the terrifying world of the blockbuster films.
Comic · 36 pages · $4.99
Releases Mar 11, 2026
51 #1
What if all the secrets housed in AREA 51 leaked out into the world? Who would be responsible for that mess? And who would be responsible for cleaning it up? After the President’s screw-up son, Harvey, gets in trouble with the law, his dad calls in a favor and gets him assigned to the real-life Area 51 — Hangar 51. But it’s not the thrill ride the conspiracy theorists would have you believe. Harvey spends most of his days cataloging items he’s forbidden from even looking at.
That all changes when Harvey and his coworkers decide to throw a rager and wake up from their bender to find that every single item from Hangar 51 has been stolen. Now in the deepest trouble of his life, Harvey and his ragtag crew must go out into the world and put the genie back in the bottle — capturing rogue aliens, stolen superpower formulas, experimental energy weapons, and all manner of impossible objects. And as they hunt each piece down, a darker truth begins to surface: who actually broke into Hangar 51... and what do they plan to do with what they took? Writer Curt Pires and artist Jok take you on a trip like you’ve never been to explore a conspiracy theory you won’t ever believe!
Comic · 40 pages · $6.99
Releases Mar 11, 2026
The Woods Book One TP
A high school disappears from Earth... and lands in the middle of an alien nightmare.
On October 16, 2013, Bay Point Preparatory High School mysteriously vanished from suburban Milwaukee, only to reappear on a strange, forest-covered moon in an unknown part of the universe. With no answers and no way home, students and faculty face a terrifying alien wilderness filled with unimaginable threats and nightmarish encounters alongside their desperate attempt to reclaim normalcy in a rebuilt society.
With rising tensions, shifting loyalties, and a looming cosmic threat, the path home is anything but clear. Can they survive the strange secrets that led to their arrival together? Or will the truth ultimately destroy them first?
From GLAAD Media Award–winning and Eisner-nominated writer James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children, The Nice House on the Lake) and acclaimed artist Michael Dialynas (Wynd, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) comes a genre-bending saga.
Collects The Woods #1–12.
Trade Paperback · 304 pages · $16.99 · Digest Size · Perfect Bound
Releases May 5, 2026
ThunderCats X SilverHawks: Road to War #1
THE COUNTDOWN TO CATASTROPHE BEGINS! In this special 40-page one-shot, acclaimed author ED BRISSON (ThunderCats: Lost, SilverHawks, Apex) and artists ELTON THOMASI and ALICE LECLERT bring readers three special tales that set the stage for a cataclysmic crossover event to come!
THE PAST: Claudus’s heir to the throne of Thundera, the cub Lion-O, struggles to understand his destined place at the head of the kingdom. How can he protect an entire realm when he can barely lift a sword? And with the destruction of their planet looming, will the young prince be able to shoulder the burden of leadership?
THE PRESENT: With mob boss Mon*Star gone, criminals from the furthest reaches of the galaxy are moving to fill the power vacuum left in his wake — and it’s up to the SilverHawks to stop them. But with their resources stretched thin, the team has to expand — and when Quicksilver and new recruit Chromium take on an intergalactic biker gang, the veteran and the rookie will face a real trial by fire!
THE FUTURE: For the ThunderCats trapped in the far future of ThunderCats: Lost in Time, the quest to find a way back to the past is proving to be an exercise in frustration. A restless Neko begins pulling away from her teammates to wage a one-woman war against the Darkbirds, whose secrets may hold the key to the ’Cats survival — past, present, and future!
Featuring spacetime-spanning covers from SEBASTIÁN PÍRIZ, MEGHAN HETRICK, FABIO FAILLA, and DECLAN SHALVEY, as well as a special piece of classic ANIMATION ART, ThunderCats X SilverHawks: Road to War #1 also includes a special PREMIUM MYSTERY BLIND BAG! The Premium Blind Bag contains three limited editions of the one-shot selected randomly from a range of covers exclusive to this offering — including virgin variants, colored blanks, and more! Please Note: The number of Blind Bags is limited, and allocations may occur.
Comic · 40 pages · $5.99 · Card Stock Cover
Releases Mar 18, 2026
The Herculoids Vol. 1: The Beginning HC
ALL STRONG! ALL BRAVE! ALL HEROES! Hidden in the furthest reaches of space, the planet Amzot is legendary for its fabled riches — and for the terrible fates that befall anybody who seeks to exploit them. Those who survive their encounters tell blood-chilling tales of horrific, imposing monsters that guard the mysterious world. Yet the lure of its abundant resources is too great to resist — raiders and pirates continue to come from across the galaxy, and there is only one force strong enough to stop their constant attacks: The Herculoids!
Collecting issues #1-5 of the riveting series from TOM SNIEGOSKI and CRAIG ROUSSEAU, Herculoids Vol. 1: The Beginning also includes a complete cover gallery showcasing work from some of the galaxy’s most talented artists!
Hardcover · 144 pages · $24.99
Releases Apr 28, 2026
Live Memorium TP
When digital dreams turn into nightmares...
Single and awkward, Tomasu works as an accountant for a company that makes sex dolls. It’s not a glamorous life, but it’s a living. Manipulated by his crooked boss and ridiculed by his colleagues, he suffers a series of personal setbacks throughout his life in a gigantic, lonely megalopolis. The day his mother dies, his life turns upside down. Shaken by this tragedy and encouraged by his friend, he decides to take the plunge and test Live Memorium, an illegal technology that offers its users the ability to relive their childhood memories and act differently within them. Once inside the machine, Tomasu can see his mother again and change the course of certain events that led to his deep trauma. He asserts himself with more confidence and reconnects with his childhood sweetheart, but in the process, loses touch with reality. It is the beginning of a self-destructive spiral, where the virtual world and the real world become one...
A dystopian tale with a cyberpunk flavor, Live Memorium projects us into another dimension. In the tradition of the great seinen sci-fi manga, this captivating story questions our relationship with technology and the solitude and emotional distress of our urbanized society. Halfway between Domû, Akira, and Black Mirror, Miki Makasu tells a unique and dizzying experience illustrated by the elegant graphic talent of Benoît Bourget.
Trade Paperback · 208 pages · $24.99 · Unique Dimensions
Releases Mar 24, 2026
Alien: King Killer #1
When humanity has already lost the war against the Xenomorphs, what remains? Set on a planet overrun by the savage alien species, the dregs of humanity cling to the protection of the mysterious siblings known as the Three Kings. But these warlords have a fourth sibling who is out for revenge — and the humans' remaining protectors are harboring secrets deadlier than the aliens outside their gates. The first chapter in one of the most epic — and darkest — eras of the ALIEN universe!
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99
Releases Apr 1, 2026
Synthetics Volume One TP
Earth is dying and soon the human race will be unable to survive…
With “dead zones”—areas so toxic no life can survive—littering the Earth and growing every day, it’s estimated there are only twenty years remaining before the planet becomes so toxic humanity will die out.
Reactions to the news range from denial to rage and everything in between, but can something still be done? If a new type of human—stronger, able to work in toxic environments—could be made, could they be the key to fixing the dead zones and saving the planet? Or will they simply be humanity’s last gasp?
Collects Synthetics Volume One #1–#4.
Trade Paperback · 104 pages · $19.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Jun 23, 2026
Moebius Library: The Depressed Hunter HC
A mind-warping graphic novel from the master of comics, Jean “Mœbius” Giraud—for the first time in English!
In this graphic novel prequel to The Major, Mœbius’s Major Grubert finds himself attempting to chase away the blues but getting into a surreal adventure! Taking a vacation to the Airtight Garage to clear his mind, Grubert walks straight into an assassination plot: His own!
As the Major goes undercover, the late, great French master cartoonist Mœbius returns to form here, in The Depressed Hunter, taking readers into the intricate world of the Major’s dreams—and nightmares!—with the lush, exquisite pen-and-ink work for which the author is best known. Another intensely psychedelic adventure that only Mœbius could take us on!
Translated by Diana Schutz, who continues to provide illuminating translator’s notes, and skillfully lettered—reflecting Mœbius’s own work—by Adam Pruett (The World of Edena, The Major).
Hardcover · 88 pages · $24.99 · Oversized · Case Bound
Releases Jun 23, 2026
Blink and You'll Miss It TP
In the strange town of Perennial Harbor, time doesn't just heal wounds—it reopens them.
Decades after their love faded, Melody and Jesse find themselves caught in a spiraling mystery where the past is more alive than the present. As Melody slips further back in time, she finds herself reliving memories and rewriting fate for a time and place she thought she’d left behind. Can she discover the unsettling truth causing reality to unravel around her? Or will it ultimately destroy her and the only person she’s ever truly cared for?
From the breakout writing team of Ethan S. Parker (Hello Darkness) and Griffin Sheridan (Kill Your Darlings) and featuring stunning debut art by Keith Browning, this genre-blurring emotional thriller blends sci-fi, romance, and psychological horror into one unforgettable story.
Collects Blink and You’ll Miss It #1–5.
Releases Jun 16, 2026
Choose Your Own Adventure: Space and Beyond TP
From acclaimed writer Jeremy Lambert (Night Mother, Dungeons & Dragons, Goosebumps) and returning artist Dani Bolinho (Choose Your Own Adventure: Journey Under the Sea and Forecast from Stonehenge) comes a newly adapted graphic novel that takes readers on their own visual adventure through space and beyond to uncover the secrets of the universe!
In this Choose Your Own Adventure graphic novel adapted from R.A. Montgomery's classic Space and Beyond, you will journey through planets and galaxies and into the unknown universe. Put on your spacesuit and hurtle through space and time to choose the best adventure for you! First, you'll choose the planet of your birth. Does Kenda or Croyd suit you? When you encounter a group of aliens, will you believe them to be friend or foe? Will you face the dangers of a black hole? What will you do when you journey back in time and see dinosaurs up close? Will you bring peace to troubled planets? It's all up to you, so be careful! The choices you make could bring you home or launch you even farther into the infinite depths of the vast universe. Choose from 44 endings!
Trade Paperback · 144 pages · $14.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Aug 4, 2026
Twin Lotuses HC
Love is never lost...
Fan is a young Chinese engineer who lost his wife in a Japanese bombing raid in 1937. Mingfeng was a popular performer at the local opera, and he is devastated by the loss. Distraught, he builds an extraordinary automaton that replaces her at the theater. Meanwhile, war rages throughout the city, and orphaned children run wild under the direction of local potentates in an attempt to thrive and survive. When those potentates take notice of the mysterious beauty, suspicions and desires start to grow. Mix in an American airman and the tensions of war, and things build to an explosive finale.
Masterfully mixing a snapshot of war-torn China with the philosophical sci-fi questions of a Philip K Dick novel, Twin Lotuses is a beautifully illustrated story capturing an ugly time and the flicker of hope, love, and ambition that shone through it all.
Hardcover · 324 pages · $29.99 · Magazine · Case Bound
Releases Apr 14, 2026
Planet Atmos: Exordium #1
Some heists succeed, some fail, and some fail so spectacularly as to set off a chain of events that irrevocably alter a planet’s future. After triggering security alarms in the underground stronghold of an intergalactic pharmaceutical conglomerate, a ragtag group of thieves must use every trick at their disposal to escape and survive. The fates of legendary racing pilot, Pesh Chosen and the fugitive known as Addy Aker collide and neither them, nor Planet Atmos, will ever be the same.
Planet Atmos: Exordium is the first entry in the Planet Atmos universe of games and stories.
Comic · 32 pages · $4.99Releases Apr 22, 2026
Temporal TP
From acclaimed writer Stephanie Williams (Nubia & The Amazons, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Wreck and Roll, The Raven Boys graphic novel adaptation) and rising comic artist Asiah Fulmore (Amethyst: Princess Of Gemworld and Batman: The Brave and The Bold) comes a thrilling new limited series about family, identity, and the dangerous allure of who we used to be. A retired time thief risks everything to steal a vintage gaming console for her son, accidentally reawakening dangerous forces that could collapse all realities, forcing her to confront her past to save her family's future.
Once upon a time, Savannah and Marcus were the most skilled temporal thieves in the business, slipping through history to acquire rare artifacts. That was before they settled down, had a son, and built a quiet life together. Ten years later, as their son Harper celebrates his birthday, Savannah questions whether suburban bliss is enough. When Harper's disappointment over a replica gaming console triggers memories of her former life, Savannah makes a decision that could jeopardize everything she and Marcus have built. Against her husband's knowledge and her best friend's warnings, Savannah steps back into the portal for "one last job" - a simple mission to retrieve an original gaming console from the past. But nothing stays simple for long in a business where time is money.
Trade Paperback · 128 pages · $17.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Apr 7, 2026
Sherlock Holmes and the Empire Builders: The Gene Genie TP
Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders is an epic alternate world sci fi adventure featuring The World’s Greatest Detective as people have never seen him before.
When Watson leaves Holmes to help Crick unravel the DNA helix and finds himself in the employ of England’s most evil man, Holmes is forced to team up with an unlikely group to defeat this monstrous figure and return England to its status quo. But can he defeat the machinations of the man at the rudder of the country?
Sherlock Holmes and The Empire Builders The Gene Genie is perfect for fans of Michael Moorcock (Elric, Jerry Cornelius) and Bryan Talbot (The Adventures Of Luther Arkwright, Grandville). Winning a Comic Scene award for Best Crowdfunder in 2025, it has already garnered quite a following since its debut in 2020 as a short comic story in the pages of Tripwire. This complete collection features a brand new introduction by award winning writer JM DeMatteis (Moonshadow, Spider-man: Kraven’s Last Hunt), and a brand new wraparound cover by Eisner award winning artist Laurence Campbell (Hellboy)
Trade Paperback · 176 pages · $19.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Apr 21, 2026
Artificial TP
Babygirl meets MurderBot in ARTIFICIAL, the new erotic thriller by acclaimed creator Maria Llovet (Crave, Violent Flowers, All The Things We Didn’t Do Last Night).
Clara, a fashion stylist disillusioned with love, turns to a futuristic dating service offering lifelike android partners. But when her dream lover glitches into a possessive stalker, she finds herself trapped in a game of desire, control, and survival.
Collects all issues #1-4.
Releases Apr 15, 2026
War Wolf Vol. 1 TP
Thomas Bruin. A man plucked from obscurity by circumstance, who saves his town from an alien scout team, and then makes an unholy bargain to save the world from the invasion that follows. This alchemy of actions and secrets makes Bruin a worldwide celebrity, which he leverages to his advantage, but there’s just one problem– the clock’s ticking. Because only Bruin knows that he didn’t truly defeat the aliens so many decades ago, and as he reaches the twilight of his career, the bill comes due.
After he fends off an alien invasion, Thomas Bruin goes from a nobody security guard to Earth's greatest hero! He's got a supercharged launchpad and no ceiling. Bruin rises from celebrity to congress, then to the head of the planet's first orbital security force. He's married into one of the country's most powerful political families, he's surfing a wave of endorsements, and he's the very symbol of human resilience. So why is Bruin nervous? Because only he knows his great victory is a lie. When the aliens return to Earth, stronger than ever, Bruin has no choice but to be the hero he's fooled the whole world into thinking he is...or die trying.
Trade Paperback · 166 pages · $17.99 · Perfect Bound
Releases Apr 28, 2026
Space Relic Hunters HC
An exciting new space opera of blockbuster proportions from the creators of Warship Jolly Roger and On Mars!
After an interplanetary religious war that devastated the galaxy 200 years earlier, four gods nicknamed the “Great Quartet" decided to build a new empire. They established a violent and repressive dictatorship, annihilating all forms of religion other than that devoted to their own worship. The Divine Legions were created to enforce this order, but despite their surveillance, different species of aliens continued to secretly worship their ancient gods. This situation gave rise to a galactic market in alien relics linked to many now-banned religions. That means smuggling and the birth of Relic Hunters. Aspiring up-and-comer Xia, a human, and Little Mercur, a masked alien of unknown origin, are among the best relic hunters in the galaxy, and they’re joined for a new mission by Vitellius, a former centurion who deserted the Divine Legions.
Hardcover · 124 pages · $24.99 · Oversized
Releases Mar 17, 2026
Shin Zero Book 1 TP
The award-winning creators of Carbon & Silicon and Frontier team up for an explosive new series!
Twenty years ago, the last Kaiju, a giant monster from the sea, was defeated by the Sentai, a group of colorful vigilantes. Today, the Sentai are mere shadows of their former selves, relegated to low-paying odd jobs. Warren, Nikki, Heloise, Satoshi, and Sofia try to find th
eir place in this disillusioned world where heroes have disappeared...
Trade Paperback · 216 pages · $19.99 · Unique Dimensions · Perfect Bound · Foil Gatefold Cover
Released Mar 3, 2026
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