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Charlamagne tha God Presents: ILLuminati

Charlamagne tha God presents a dark conspiracy tale that shines a light on the most enduring conspiracy of our day. Lilly, an aspiring musician, comes to Los Angeles to bury her sister, Jackie, a rising pop star who died from a drug overdose. But Lilly knows that there is more to Jackie’s death than meets the eye. Embarking on an investigation that takes her on a tour of the dark underbelly of the music industry, Lilly uncovers a centuries-old conspiracy that grants fame and fortune at a terrible price. The Illuminati are real and Lilly is about to learn that the world above is the same as the world below, and the power she needs to offset their gravitational pull just might come from the darkness she fears.

Primos

The ultimate Latin heroes for the 21st Century are here! Centuries ago, 2 Mayan brothers constructed a spacecraft that sent them hurtling into outer space. Returned to Earth only to find their culture and civilization destroyed, one of the brothers vows revenge. To prevent this, his sibling creates a contingency plan that activates the world’s protectors – 3 descendants of their own family.

Hit Me (Toons)

A high-octane crime thriller from Christa Faust (Bad Mother, Redemption) and Priscilla Petraites (Chariot). Lulu has a very unique profession. When she is witness to the execution of one of her regular clients, she escapes into the night with a briefcase filled with diamonds and a pack of killers on her trail. Navigating the dark underbelly of decaying, early-90’s Atlantic City, one step ahead of her pursuers, Lulu must call upon every one of her street-born instincts and underworld connections in what will be the longest – and possibly last – night of her life.

Fight Girls

Ten hard-as-nails women face off in an ancient contest of champions where the winner truly takes all: the title of “Queen of the Galaxy.” To win the challenge each contestant must survive the hazards of the planet’s harsh landscape, the ferocious predators on and below its surface, and their fellow contestants.

Bad Mother (Toons)

When her teenaged daughter goes missing under mysterious circumstances, soccer mom April Walters embarks on a harrowing mission to find her; a journey that takes her through the underbelly of her suburban community and sets her on a collision course with a massive crime syndicate and its lethal matriarch. Tested to her limits, April discovers that hell hath no fury like a mother scorned.

Camgirl

In this self-contained, double-sized one-shot, Sarah H. Cho (Red Light) and C.P. Smith (Sins of the Salton Sea) present a relentless, kinky and occasionally bloody erotic thriller. Meet Dani — she’s independent, she loves to party, and she makes a whole lot of money. Now meet Kyoko, Dani’s online alter-ego — she’s obedient, she’s exotic, she’s a walking stereotype that caters to her customer’s basest fantasies. When one of Kyoko’s most ardent followers starts to send her increasingly threatening messages, Dani’s two lives become dangerously intertwined. To turn the tables on a relentless stalker who seems to know everything about her, and exactly which buttons to push, Dani must confront her personal demons and rediscover who she really is and what she is capable of doing.

Year Zero (Toons)

An epic series that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse. These harrowing tales follow several survivors of a horrific global epidemic from all around the world who must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling dead. Year Zero wrestles with the weighty moral and theological questions posed by the pandemic and investigates its cause and possible cure.

Casual Fling (Toons)

Jennifer Ryan has the perfect life. A loving family. A high paying job in corporate law. A luxurious apartment in upper Manhattan. Then one day she steps out of her marriage...and finds that her new lover isn’t the one night stand she expected. Stalked and threatened with exposure, Jennifer attempts to unravel the true identity of her tormentor, discovering valuable clues in the trail of destruction left in this mysterious man’s wake.

Red Light

A futuristic erotic thriller by newcomer Sarah H. Cho and Priscilla Petraites! Lacy is an A.I. sex worker in a futuristic Red Light District. And Lacy knows exactly what her clients want—better than they know it themselves. Housed in a high-tech brothel under the watchful eye of the mysterious Mister, Lacy has little in her manufactured life besides work. All that changes when she befriends Natalie, an orphaned child who comes into her care. Now Lacy and Natalie are on a mission to escape the Red Light District, only to find themselves flung headlong into the mystery behind Lacy's creation.

Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal (Toons)

She’s Marjorie Finnegan. She’s a temporal criminal. What more do you need to know? All Marj wants to do is race up and down the time-lanes, stealing every shiny-gleamy-pretty-sparkly she can lay her hands on. But her larcenous trail from the Big Bang to the Ninety-fifth Reich has drawn the beady eye of the Temporal PD, whose number one Deputy Marshall is now hard on our heroine’s tail-- and taking things extremely personally.

U & I

In the next chapter in the saga of the Resistance Universe, the mysterious “U” has no memory of his past before awakening with powers after the Great Death created the superpowered Reborns. His vision of the world is one that is more beautiful and full of hope than the rest of us can see. In searching for a purpose, a reason to live, he discovers Isabelle, whose father died in the plague. When the two meet, a spark is lit between them. But another spark is lit—sure to lead to explosive consequences—when U runs afoul of a crime syndicate that will stop at nothing to get revenge.

Little Black Book

Don’t miss the start of this hard-boiled neo-Western thriller! In this explosive new thriller by writer Jeff McComsey (The Fourth Man; Grendel, Kentucky) and artist Felipe Cunha (Gatsby), Cole, a straight-arrow handyman, finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless crime syndicate—along with his pregnant wife. But what is the meaning of the “little black book” of underworld contacts Cole’s deceased father had hidden in his home? Cole’s father believed the best thing he could do for his son was to stay out of his life, but does the apple fall far from the tree...?

Gatsby OGN

When middle-class Singaporean student Lu Zhao is invited to spend a summer on Long Island with his rich cousin, Tommy, before attending Columbia University in the fall, his assimilation into the opulent American lifestyle straps him into a collision course fueled by designer drugs, sex, deceit, and murder. Set in present-day Long Island, Gatsby reimagines F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel as an LGBTQ-tinged, multicultural thriller for the Internet age.

Sacrament

The Exorcist meets Alien in this sci-fi/horror story. In the year 3000, Mankind abandoned Earth and fled into outer space. Now, a disgraced priest, called into action to perform an exorcism on a remote space colony, is about to discover that no matter how far you run, you can’t escape your demons, and the Devil is, in fact, real.

Death Ratio'd

In this futuristic dark comedy by Eisner and ‘Ringo Award-winning writer Mark Russell, life and death are ruled by social media. One too many dislikes...and you’re dead. When Arnold awakes from a coma twenty years into the future, he discovers that government is a thing of the past and society is now entirely ruled by social media. Literally. Enough “likes” and “upvotes” can unlock fame and fortune but — watch your step! — enough “thumbs down” clicks and the nifty metal collar around your neck explodes – and you’re dead. Now, confused and running on his last Like, Arnold must navigate a hazardous obstacle course in which social media cliques provide the only safe refuge, aware that the slightest online misstep can be fatal.

Year Zero

Ben Percy (Wolverine), Ramon Rosanas (Star Wars: Age of Resistance) & Juan José Ryp (Britannia) present epic tales that offers a global look at the Zombie Apocalypse in Year Zero VolumesOne & Volume Two. Each series features survivors of a horrific global epidemic who must draw upon their unique skills and deepest instincts to navigate a world of shambling dead.

E-Ratic

You’re fifteen years old. You’re suddenly granted incredible powers. Cool, right? There’s only one problem: you can only use your powers for ten minutes at a time. What do you do when you have to save the world but you only have ten minutes to do it? This is the problem faced by Oliver Leif, a teenager who has just moved to a new town, and a new school, and is having a hard enough time.

Byte-Sized

When two young siblings excitedly unwrap their final Christmas presents, they discover toy robots unlike anything they have ever seen. And with good reason. What the kids and their parents don’t know is that their quaint suburban home just became the beachhead for these self-aware ‘bots that have begun to explore the outside world.

The Madness

Sarah Ross has been using her power as a thief, stealing from the rich and…well, keeping it. Until the day she stole from the wrong person, a highly placed official who pressures the government to assassinate her. The plot, aided by so-called “good” superheroes sponsored by the government, misses her but wipes out her family. Driven mad by grief, and laser-focused on revenge for the murder of her family, Sarah and a hidden side of her personality – an imaginary friend who may be more real than she believes – goes after these operatives determined to take her revenge, at any cost.

The Ribbon Queen

There is something ancient and terrible loose in the world of men. NYPD Detective Amy Sun has a problem: Three years ago, a young woman was rescued from a serial killer by a police tactical unit. Now she’s dead, and Amy has a bad feeling that the SWAT team leader is responsible. As she investigates the corrupt cabal, Sun soon discovers that there is something else on their trail – a force of vengeance older than the human race itself has awoken and is out for the blood of the guilty. The Ribbon Queen has come to New York City…and Amy is not at all certain that it should be stopped.

Casual Fling

Jennifer Ryan has the perfect life. A loving family. A high paying job in corporate law. A luxurious apartment in upper Manhattan. Then one day she steps out of her marriage...and finds that her new lover isn’t the one night stand she expected.

Rumpus Room

Eisner Award-winning writer Mark Russell returns to AWA with his latest dark satire, with art by Ramon Rosanas. Meet Bob Schrunk, technocrat billionaire, collector of bad art, and victim of a hideous skin condition that can only be treated with a highly illicit and definitely not FDA-approved face cream that must be…harvested. From human beings. Bob isn’t unfair, though. He’s happy to let his guests select who will be next to be sent from the Rumpus Room to their doom. There’s just one thing Bob doesn’t know: One of his new guests is an undercover cop—and she’s carrying a gun.

Old Haunts

Three Made Men, standing at the brink of retirement, find their unbreakable bond put to the ultimate test when they are suddenly assaulted by the ghosts of their past. Confronted by decades of buried secrets – resentments, affairs, double-crosses, and murders – the three friends have no choice but to unearth the deepest, darkest sin from their past and pray they don’t find an empty grave.

Redemption

The dusty desert town of Redemption survived the apocalypse but is hanging on by a thread. A despot rules the town with an iron fist and controls its most precious resource: water. When that strongman marks her mother for death, young Rose Obregon ventures into the perilous wasteland to seek the help of the legendary gunslinger Cat Tanner.