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The Purpose Project (The Protopias Collection)
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Welcome to Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities.
This imaginative odd couple workplace comedy pairs an unambitious stoner with a salty soon-to-be-retiree as part of a new government initiative dubbed “The Purpose Project.” Its...
Absolution
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Fighting
Leading Ladies
Murder
Space
Nina Ryan is a hired killer who’s only chance for redemption is one month on the run, live-streamed for the world to see. Freedom is the prize, failure sets off the bombs implanted in her brain.
Archangel 8
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Fighting
Mythical
Supernatural
In a world beyond the sight of mortals, Heaven and Hell wage war for the souls of mankind. Principal among God’s legion are seven archangels written about in religious texts for millennia. But there is an eighth archangel, known only from passing allusions in Apocrypha, who operates under a different code.
Rumpus Room
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Humor
Mature
Modern
Murder
Psychological
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...
Redemption
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Dystopian
Leading Ladies
LGBTQ+
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.
Little Black Book
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Family
Mature
Modern
Murder
Western
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...
Moths
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Leading Ladies
Political
Psychological
Supernatural
Emily Kai has immense power inside her. However, the moment she taps into it a clock starts. She will have only six months to live. As Emily enters into this journey, she contemplates how to use her gifts to bring beauty into the world in the limited time she has to use them.
Black Moon Ritual (The Protopias Collection)
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Friendship
Magic
Modern
Mythical
Science
Continuing Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from Futurific Studios (PBS’s A Brief History of the Future) and AWA that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities. Naaki, a cocky young surfer, sees his life abruptly blown off course during the titular Black Moon Ritual. When the island society’s rite of...
Polis (The Protopias Collection)
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Family
Military
Modern
Political
Science
Welcome to Protopias, the new science-fiction anthology series from AWA and Futurific Studios that explores the many possible futures that can come to pass as we try to make the right choices in imperfect realities.
In this double-sized debut issue, Eisner and Ringo Award-winning writer Mark Russell (Not All Robots, Batman: Dark Age) and illustrator Laci (Trojan, Death Ratio’d) spin the tale...
Vertical Long-Strip
Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal (Toons)
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Family
Humor
Leading Ladies
Time Travel
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--...
NewThink
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Computers
Humor
Psychological
This Black Mirror-style anthology examines the rapid proliferation of technology, the cultural and political polarization of the country, and the technocrats that have driven us to such extremes of thought that we need to present the present as something…futuristic. Each of the five issues is a stand-alone tale with its own art team.
Staff Pick
Grendel, KY
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Leading Ladies
Monsters
For two generations, the rural hill town of Grendel, Kentucky has honored its Faustian bargain with the monster living in its abandoned coal mine: a human sacrifice every season in return for agrarian prosperity the likes of which this rocky region had never before seen (including its greatest cash crop: the dankest weed in the land).