Hustle & Heart
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EC Cruel Universe
Comic - Horror
Compelled to OBLIVION, driven to ENTROPY, all life in our cosmos can only end in one place: COMPLETE ANNIHILATION! For the first time in 70 years, the limitless fury of EC Comics rages back to life to shred the very fabric of the universe itself—and wrench bizarre tales of time and space into our dimensional plane!
Our guides across this double-sized, 40-page introduction to a cosmic maelstrom of strange extraterrestrial entities, malevolent scientists, and terrifying technological catastrophes? Learn to fear the void with the irradiated imaginations of Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko (Invisible Republic, The Space Between), rising star Chris Condon (That Texas Blood), Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT), and Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters.
The Beauty
Comic - Horror
Imagine a sexually transmitted disease that makes those infected better looking... a disease people want. That disease is real, and itÍs called the Beauty. Two years after the Beauty burst onto the scene, over half of America is infected. Now, it looks like the downside may be far worse than anyone suspected. Detectives Vaughn and Foster find themselves on the front line of the battle against the Beauty, embroiled in a conspiracy they never knew existed.
Invasive
Comic - Horror
Beyond excess, beyond ethics, beyond science . . . Enter a terrifying new experiment in pain from Eisner Award nominee Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Basilisk) and acclaimed illustrator Jes s Hervás (The Empty Man)! Dr. Carrie Reynolds was a veteran trauma surgeon with a godlike mastery of muscle and bone. But outside the operating room, her rigidly ordered life spiraled into chaos when her daughter, Heather-a recovering plastic surgery addict-suddenly disappeared, only to mysteriously reemerge in a catatonic state, her vocal cords removed . . . the latest in a series of victims scarred by a battery of brazenly cruel medical procedures that have baffled police and left an alarming number of once-ordinary citizens maimed, mutilated, or dead on arrival. Deep beneath the streets of Carrie's city, a new kind of underground hospital has just opened its doors . . . and, once inside, there are no rules, no oaths, and no taboos too deep to not to be broken. Together, a new class of surgeon has sworn to pierce the final threshold of accepted medical orthodoxy one incision at a time. The scalpel is their tool. The alleys are their operating theater. Murder is their medicine. And only Carrie can stop what they're planning next . . .
Night People
Comic - Horror
From the mind of writer Barry Gifford (Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), adapted by That Texas Blood's Chris Condon and a rotating cast of visionary artists—including Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Alexandre Tefenkgi (The Good Asian), Artyom Topilin (I Hate This Place) and Marco Finnegan (The Keeper)—come four interconnected stories of convicts, lost souls, and human monsters journeying through a labyrinth of perversion, religious dogma, and murder in the Deep South.
A pair of murderous lovers in Florida carrying out a bloody agenda. A perverse political and religious power struggle between a brother and a sister. An easygoing drifter who suddenly finds himself a fugitive on the run. And a bright-eyed young girl discovering her place in the cold dark world.
The Vain
Comic - Horror
Chicago, 1941. A blood bank is held up in a robbery, but no cash is taken—only blood. It's the latest in a string of similar robberies and as the United States prepares to enter World War II, FBI Agent Felix Franklin is certain it's part of a wider plot to weaken the United States by depriving it of its blood supply. But the truth is much more sinister.
The four robbers are vampires: immortal, physically powerful, and after decades of honing their skills, practically untraceable. But t...
Revolvers
Comic - Horror
By all accounts, Detective Hampton Wales is a good cop but a complicated man, and when he dies under unusual circumstances, he finds that things aren’t any less complicated in death. The cases he couldn’t solve have come back to haunt him—literally and figuratively—and he faces a hellscape where people from his past hunt him in an eternal, torturous blood sport. Now, Hampton must struggle to survive long enough to solve one more murder if he ever wants to leave the cycle of violence...
The Damned
Comic - Horror
Collecting all three volumes of the groundbreaking paranormal noir from acclaimed creators Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt (The Sixth Gun, Hellbreak) in one complete omnibus for the first time anywhere!
In the gritty world of Prohibition-era underground crime, the streets are run not merely by bootleggers, but demon gang bosses bent toward decadent sin: greed, gluttony, and lust. Eddie Tamblyn runs the nightclub the Gehenna Room, with a strict no-demons-allowed policy, but he's also cursed with the unique ability to return from the dead and transfer his mortal wounds to the first person who touches his corpse-an ability that places him in high demand for his city's princes of darkness, who hold his heavy debt.
Collecting The Damned: Three Days Dead #0-5 and The Damned #1-10 alongside the rarely seen "Three Days Earlier" prelude story.
Free for All
Comic - Horror
From Eisner Award-nominated writer/artist Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) comes a 56-page, self-contained one-shot that delivers a brutal new vision of capitalism by combat . . .
In the future, the World Finance League exists to benefit all, randomly choosing those from among the billionaires and trillionaires of the world and presenting them with a choice: either donate half of their assets to the common good-or defend them in ritual combat.
Reigning champion and real estate magnate Ted Brooks has 22 victories under his belt-defending the wealth he schemed and stabbed to get-when he is forced to face his ex-wife, Luella Dominguez, in a fight to the death. Luella has been training, waiting for this moment. But will she have what it takes to defeat the man who would do anything-absolutely anything-to keep his fortune?
It's every shareholder for themselves when death and bankruptcy collide in Free for All #1, a giant-sized, one-shot spectacle of commerce and carnage coming this March from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Patrick Horvath!
DESTINY GATE (Volume)
Comic - Horror
During the Great Depression, Mitchell Slate did everything he could for his family. One day, his ride home takes a dark turn when Mitchell’s train veers off the rails and into a macabre journey through his own fragile soul. There, he’ll have to face that life is, for the most part, a product of the decisions you make, and for some, a “wrong“ decision or two (or more) leads to a crossroads on the other side of the Destiny Gate. Can Mitchell fight for a chance to survive and start anew, or will he succumb to his inner demons and end it all for himself, or worse—those he loves?
Mine is a Long, Lonesome Grave
Comic - Horror
"Vengeance begets blood! From creators Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and Chris Shehan (House of Slaughter), the relentless revenge-horror odyssey through Appalachia ups the ante as cursed ex-con Harley Creed comes one step closer to meeting the puppet master behind his pain . . .
Harley has three more days to find out who hexed him before he dies in screaming agony, but the clock is ticking and his grip on reality is slipping as his supernatural curse works its way through his bones. But in the rotting remains of his former in-laws' family compound, the truth of the matter is about to step into the light-and this truth, well . . . it sure as hell ain't pretty."